LCD all the way... its pretty much the standard now and is in everyones pocket already due to mobile phones..
DMD both single colour and RGB has a very low pixel rate for the size it is. These things work better on a much larger scale and from a distance. You can see large LED displays with a pitch of 5mm done on a huge scale in every city... it works well.
Transfer that to 1 metre away from you on a pinball machine and its all very 80's with its squared off characters.
Personally, ive always found the DMD at the bottom of the translite to be a really ugly design and much prefer what was done with CV.
I think Heighway Pinball are on the right track and their product looks fresh and a step forward. In fact, I like everything about their machine other than the theme.
If you are looking for innovation from Stern, then forget it. They are like a government in power and will be dragged kicking and screaming towards any real changes. The whole design of modern pinball is stuck in solid mud. It always makes me laugh when I pull the head of an EM to move the machine yet I cant do that with anything post 85ish. In fact as technology made things smaller, the machines got bigger.
Look at the latest Sterns... inside the head is the new SAM system ( or whatever its called)... tiny little board in a whopping great timber box... what a waste of real estate. The head is no longer designed so the technology fits in... in fact, its no longer designed at all.
Either fill the thing up with some features related to game play or get rid of it and go back to something like this..
A low profile LCD along the top of the cabinet would look good with the 30's design pinball. SMD technology makes this the way pinball should be going, instead its still churning out early 1990's products.
The fact that we are debating wether the DMD should stay or not is a testament to the lack of change... it should have gone years ago!
