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<blockquote data-quote="Rudy" data-source="post: 29795" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>To be perfectly honest (and I know this sounds terrible >_>) I think the future of pinball is LCD screens.</p><p></p><p>DMD screens made sense at the time because they were the only flat screens available during the late 80s (until the very late 90s, if not early 00s) right now LCD and LED screens are dirt cheap to produce and offer stunning high quality.</p><p></p><p>Yes, this would be a huge change to the pinball we all know and love, but didn't DMD screens make most non-DMD tables look ancient within a few years? Right now I think a lot of the basic components in pinball could be severely changed given the improvements in technology over the past 20 years or so since the mid 90s. Now we could probably fit the circuit board into something much smaller, now it's becoming a lot cheaper to produce solid state drives (even an 8gb one would house more than it'd ever need), now it's becoming a lot easier to make totally flat screens... if a pinball manufacturer actually tried to innovate the design process we could end up with much cheaper to produce tables which look astounding.</p><p></p><p>Of course that would kill a lot of the nostalgia of playing pinball, but unfortunately that nostalgia seems to be the thing that's stopping pinball from moving into the 21st century >_></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rudy, post: 29795, member: 1233"] To be perfectly honest (and I know this sounds terrible >_>) I think the future of pinball is LCD screens. DMD screens made sense at the time because they were the only flat screens available during the late 80s (until the very late 90s, if not early 00s) right now LCD and LED screens are dirt cheap to produce and offer stunning high quality. Yes, this would be a huge change to the pinball we all know and love, but didn't DMD screens make most non-DMD tables look ancient within a few years? Right now I think a lot of the basic components in pinball could be severely changed given the improvements in technology over the past 20 years or so since the mid 90s. Now we could probably fit the circuit board into something much smaller, now it's becoming a lot cheaper to produce solid state drives (even an 8gb one would house more than it'd ever need), now it's becoming a lot easier to make totally flat screens... if a pinball manufacturer actually tried to innovate the design process we could end up with much cheaper to produce tables which look astounding. Of course that would kill a lot of the nostalgia of playing pinball, but unfortunately that nostalgia seems to be the thing that's stopping pinball from moving into the 21st century >_> [/QUOTE]
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