to DAVIDRFOLEY: VPinball price point

[RayB]

This is directed to Foley regarding the vpinball machine, without derailing this into a MAME TM discussion.

David: What is your projected price-point and target market for these? Home use or location operators?

[ChadTower]

Everything I've seen points to location ops, and the usual price point for a new machine in that market is $3-4k.

[Stingray]

YOWEE!

-S

[Thenasty]

but that prices are for those tiny (27,31) monitor comparing to this one, was it an LCD display ?

[ChadTower]

No, it was a widescreen CRT.

[Harry Potter]

It'd have to be a CRT. The viewing angle on an LCD would be pretty bad for the eyes.

[ChadTower]

Modern LCDs don't have that issue the way they used to... walk into any Tweeter and see.

[stratjakt]

Walk into a tweeter? wha?

At that size, it'd be better to go plasma or even DLP (good application for infocus' light engine) anyways.

But its a moot argument, since neither plasma nor dlp nor lcd can change resolutions, which I'd imagine this thing would be wont to do from now and then.

I'd wager that thing would be more than a real nice pinball table, like a shopped out Addams Family, and just so phony and chinsy.. I dunno, just how I see it.

[Crazy Cooter]

I still see it as home use only.  I don't see it surviving on location unless it gets built waaaay heavier than the prototype.

CT, is there a post somewhere that says it's for ops?

[Harry Potter]

Modern LCDs don't have that issue the way they used to... walk into any Tweeter and see.

They mostly have 160 degree viewing angles. But the view isn't nowhere near perfect at 160, and that's on modern LCDs (Like the ones I bought 2 weeks ago). CRT still rocks for severe viewing angles.

[ChadTower]

I still see it as home use only.  I don't see it surviving on location unless it gets built waaaay heavier than the prototype.

CT, is there a post somewhere that says it's for ops?

I don't know if there is here, but I emailed Foley and was told that it is for ops.  He told me the price, too, but I don't know if that is common knowledge yet.  It is within the range I have given.