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| RandyT:
--- Quote from: Purple Lemon on November 13, 2006, 06:38:10 pm --- --- Quote from: RandyT on November 13, 2006, 05:57:23 pm ---True "home theater" setups can display a vertical game virtually from the floor to the ceiling without turning anything. --- End quote --- If you have a dedicated room for home theater with the high end seating, projector, AV equipment, etc, then chances are that you can afford the extra room to put any pinball / arcade machine you want. I'm not in that category, unfortunately, which means I have to make do with moderate priced equipment that has 80-90% of the functionality of the high end gear. --- End quote --- You don't need any of that stuff. You need a projector that is about 13' from a screen and you can cut a hole in the wall and mount it in a neighboring room if that's a problem (ask me how I know about that one.) You also need a sofa and Dolby Digital speaker setup. If you want a dual purpose room, the pull-down screens work nicely. Decent projectors no longer cost the obscene amount I paid a few years ago. A good projector and a screen now cost as little or less than a decent plasma TV. If big screen gaming is your thing, a plasma just isn't the same, rotated or not. Also, keep in mind that the classic vertical games, like PacMan, used a 19" monitor. This game can be shown actual size on a 27" horizontally oriented monitor. Any monitor bigger than 27" will give the screen a size boost over the original. Why go through all the trouble to rotate a large, heavy screen when the regular image is already way larger than anyone remembers it? How big does it need to be? Will your guests be substantially more impressed if the screen is 7x larger instead of 5x? And if they are, is impressing your guests worth the price of your doo-dad and is that really what it's all about? And let's not forget that modern widescreen format displays are not optimal for classic gaming, no matter which orientation they are in. I think you probably know where I stand on the marketability of your device from the above comments. NickG: Don't sweat bulb life. If 4 people go to the theater to see a movie, you are looking at $40 minimum. Do that about 7 times and you bought a new bulb for your projector, which is good for about 1000 movies for the same 4 people. Not much for them to laugh at there. ;) RandyT |
| AtomSmasher:
I figure when the bulb goes out on my projector it will be time to buy a new one. I bought my projector for $900 3 years ago, at first I used it just for dvds, but for the past year I've been using it for regular television as well. The projector keeps a tally of how long its been on and so far I'm just barely over 1000 hours. Since the bulb in it is rated for 3000 hours, I think I'll be fine for a couple more years. |
| ArcadEd:
I don't know if there is a market for such a screen. But I promise you, there is a market for gaming in home theaters. The home theater crowd is one of our biggest markets. I have a home theater. 80" screen 16:9 with a Panny HD Projector. I have my demo Arcade-In-A-Box setup on it as well. It's a lot more fun playing with a bunch of buddies, when everyone does not have to huddle around a cabinet. Authentic, no. Fun, yes. As the way this thread turned a little bit ugly, you have to understand this is a DIY type of community. So pitching product ideas has to relate to that crowd. It's the reason the Arcade-In-A-Box isn't advertised here. This isn't our market, and I understand that. We have a few smaller products that help out people here from time to time, and we continue to try and create items like that as well. (like a new restrictor plate that is hopefully coming soon ;). Anyway, don't let your idea die Purple. If it's something you are passionate about, and really want to give it a try, I say go for it. |
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