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Megatouch force software running on touchscreen pc ?

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sWampy:
Very, very few are going to pay $3-5K for one to use in their home, and you couldn't legally use the pc software in bars.     It's 2 different markets, one that sells thousands and another that sells hundreds of thousands.  Selling hundreds of thousands of things that you make $30 or so and you don't have to warranty, seems a better market to me than selling several thousand of something that you make $2500 off of, and but have to warranty for at least a year of abuse in bars scattered around the world.   

Kevin Mullins:
Well, I'm sure their warranties are very "limited".....which means you just get screwed into forking over money to repair anything anyways. (I don't really know their current policies)
I think the problem with the PC software side of it would be piracy. It's just too easy now.
Heck you can find just about anything on the net nowadays if you really want it.
So would they really profit from it....maybe just for a short bit then it's over.
Their corner on the coin-op side is pretty well established and they have a good hold on it.

Hell, I'm just rambling without an ounce of evidence.
Truth is..... they do what they want to with it.

sarge:
Merit actually does have one of the better warranty programs for their equipment.  They give you a 2 year pretty much "bumper to bumper" warranty.  However their equipment is far from failure proof.

sWampy:

--- Quote from: Kevin Mullins on January 13, 2009, 08:20:06 pm ---Hell, I'm just rambling without an ounce of evidence.
Truth is..... they do what they want to with it.

--- End quote ---

That's the sad truth, if Steve Jobs hadn't had this deluded fantasy that he was a hardware engineer, microsoft would be bankrupt and apple would being sued by governments around the world for having a monopoly.

Piracy be damn, most that pirate can't afford to buy, so cost them nothing anyway.   They would make more selling copies to a copy to each blockbuster for wii rentals, sell 3 copies for wii and 2 copies for pc to each gamestop/walmart/bestbuy/target/sears at $10 each and they make more than they have made off their bar games for the last 10 years.

lockburn:
I have a DIY-megatouch, bought from eBay a while back (as a dead screen unit) hooked up to an old CRT touchscreen. 

I wish I caught the video though, it seems to be down now.  Any mirrors?

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