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[whynotpizza]

I have 2 identical monitors for my playfield (Seiki SE39UY04 39" 4K TV) and have them connected via a fancy HDMI splitter so they both can be on at the same time. This allows me to leave one monitor inside the cabinet and one monitor outside the cabinet sitting on a table beside the cabinet as I work on software tables and configurations. 

 

Guess what broke tonight.

 

One of my playfield monitors.

 

Yuck.

 

Two choices.

1. Keep chugging along with one monitor (for now pull out the good monitor from the cabinet and sit on my table) 

2. Buy 2 new monitors to replace

 

Any suggestions on replacement monitors?

 

Hard to get a close match on my monitor dimensions.

 

Seiki SE39UY04 39" 4K TV (1920x1080 at 120Hz)

WIDTH = 34.1" (866.5mm)

HIGHT = 19.2" (488mm)

 

 

And if I do this ... I may as well consider a replacement of PC hardware including graphic card. Where does the insanity stop?

 

[Tesla]

Well, any larger external side monitor with the same aspect-ratio and resolution should suffice.

 

And you say 4K (res) ... but then 1920x1080 , so not sure what you really have there.

 

Finally, you should be able to connect both monitors directly to video-card (with native ports and cables) and don't "Extend" in Windows, or there might even be a Duplicate option. That way you can use some of your DisplayPort ports and not be limited to HDMI. 

[whynotpizza]

4K was just what they said on the spec sheet. Correct I run this monitor at 1920x1080 which is not 4K

 

Any specific suggestions for the largest monitor or TV which can physically fit in a regular (non-wide body) pinball cabinet?

 

Video card I have only supports 3 monitors which I already have (1 playfield, 1 backglass, 1 DMD)

Edited by whynotpizza, 22 January 2026 - 02:20 AM.

[digitalarts]

Imho you don't need two absolute identical screens for your Intention.
They Just need to have the Same Resolution and refresh rate.

A HDMI Splitter makes Sense in this (very Special) Case. Because so Windows doesn't recognize two Displays and maybe would do some stupid rearrangements of the Display numbers...