Introducing Infinity Amusements

[Freiherr]

I had bad luck with Sony in the past. Products are great when you first use but after several months, they start to play up. Sony does not make their gear robust enough for longevity.  I have used Samsung products for about five years now and all still good.

[swinks]

have to agree with the other guys, not a fan of Sony (had problems with various products) and Samsung make pretty good products now.

[soundasleep]

During their peak the Bravia series were some of the best LCD panels you could buy. This was around the time the PS3 was launched. Of course, back then they were still being made by Sony. I believe the panels in Sony displays are actually Sharp these days.

Even those "prime Bravias" had issues. My dad has the 40" and the DTV tuner died. It would have cost more to get the one board replaced (since they don't do component level repairs) than just to replace the whole thing. Wasn't impressed.

I'm more of a plasma guy when it comes to my own home entertainment system and I'm currently running a Samsung 63". Couldn't be happier with it :)

The decision to go with the Samsung LED panels was made for 5 reasons:
1. Samsung is one of the few ODM's left so a Samsung panel is actually a Samsung panel.
2. Their electronics are top-notch. Sure you could get another "no name" that uses a Samsung panel, but it won't have Samsung electronics.
3. Heat is a major issue with video pins and LED's produce a lot less heat.
4. Reliability. Most of the larger stands I've been involved in at tech expos use Samsung and its very rare to hear of a problem.
5. Vivid colours even at extreme viewing angels.

Given the purpose of the panels, number 4 was the big one, but every factor played it's part.

We've been on a major shopping spree this week and everything we need is either here, or not far away. If you're curious to see how we do things you can follow our Development Diaries on our website:
http://infinityamusements.com/2013/09/09/welcome-to-the-development-diaries/

Or if you don't have the patience to wait for us to update the site, we post "live updates" as we work to Instagram:
http://instagram.com/InfinityPinball

[soundasleep]

"Prototype Stage One Complete"
http://infinityamusements.com/2013/09/19/prototype-stage-one-complete/

Reconstruction of the donated Williams "Hurricane" cabinet was finished in the early hours of this morning. Our first prototype unit is now at a "play ready" state - although the encoder hasn't been set up yet so it's really just a PC with 3 screens in a pretty box at this stage.

We did a bit of "play testing" with PinballFX2 earlier tonight. Bearing in mind there are no airflow fans in the cabinet yet, we played for just over an hour and the air inside wasn't even warm. It looks like using LED's was the right decision!

IndieGoGo Update: 40% with 19 days to go...

[swinks]

looking good 

[soundasleep]

Thanks Swinks :)

Although we haven't had time to write up the next Development Diary it's time to give a sneak peak at our "Project: Hurricane" prototype model.

All of the physical buttons are now wired up via the iPac2 encoder board. The addition of the "hidden" joystick makes navigation and extra functions so much easier to control than before.

The next stage will be button lighting, then on to force feedback solutions while we wait for our first retail cabinet build.

[swinks]

thanks for the update, starting to come together