To me just full black and full white would look awful. Look at black and white films and shows, they have shades in between. If you use a ColorDMD in Twilight Zone you'll get those shades between full black and full white. Should look pretty good.

Twilight zone looks excellent with an xpin blue Dmd.

Been wondering aboot white TZ for a long time now. Wish Someone could do it.

Personally I thin TAF color DMD looks piss poor

I had an extra ColorDMD in my No good gofers set to green, and this sounded like a better idea.
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That is pretty sweet!

That looks ok!

They need a color dmd for Getaway

YOU are the man, way to deliver!

Wow, that looks really good. Good idea.

Alright so where do I get a Color DMD now? Oh damn that's expensive.

By the way, you can change any display color in pinmame. Just right click on the display (DMD or alpha-numeric) pick game settings and change the color. You will then have to re-start pinmame. It works well for checking out different colors on displays.

I like the black & white look a lot! It goes perfect with the theme.

Very nice! B/W is a great choice. Now I want one!

that looks so much better, wish I owned a TZ now. Almost seems as if the color DMD has better refresh rate, or is that just my eyes playing games on me?

That looks great!

With how many TZ's that are out there, I'm still amazed they still haven't come out with the ColorDMD like on AFM, MM, and TAF. I'm sure it's coming, but damnit that's not now

That looks really good.

I wonder if you could make a white LED DMD. I don't see why not in theory, you can fade a white LED for shades just like any other color (see Apple' pulsing white LED sleep lights for instance). Not cheap, but probably within striking distance of blue LEDs, and that exists already.

It's quite striking on it's own, just white, but would also be interesting if you added theater lighting gels over it, could open up a real gamut of custom color options.

I've been saying this all along for games like TZ and CftBL where the original source material was in black in white. the movie clip animations would look great in b/w (as shown above, they do) and other animations could still be in color to show off the capabilities of what ColorDMD can do

I would love to see it in blue on any pin if you could? I want to get a Xpin Blue for my Tron but the 'gridlines' on it are really putting me off.....

And a colorDMD isn't really that much more....If you could do a video and photos on any pin in Blue i would be extremely grateful.

Wow! The black/white is bad ass for a tz. Fits the theme perfect. Ok, I want a tz now just to see this mod

Brings in the games black-and-white television show nostalgia. I like it!!

That looks awesome! I am tempted to buy a second colorDMD just to do this to my TZ. Someone really should market a white DMD. You could make it any color you wanted with filters.

yep, agree with the mass, b/w is great on TZ

If I'm going to send $400, it better be in full color. I get the B/W theme but if it's all white, I'll just stick with the plain old orange display.

I think that would be super dope!! I think though the issue might be supply of parts. With The popularity of the color display I'm sure if they don't some one soon will.

TZ looks awesome - great idea!

I have spoken with the colordmd guys about a cheaper and non-game specific "un-colorized" version.

I belive they would like to do that in the future but they are still having a hard enough time sourcing parts just to fullfill need for the game specific verisons.

Fingers crossed for that in the future...

how hard would it be to do a white DMD?

Hmmm.... I need to get the calculator out.
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I don't even know if this is the right dot pitch, but it's like 3 times the cost of the red one.

B&W for TZ? I think yes!!!!

Nope. I'd much rather buy something that someone else made. Plus, you're right, even if all the technical stuff fell into place, the cost of the special LED colors would make it more than a ColorDMD.

Oh my god, a B&W CRT DMD replacement for TZ. That would look so sick.

That's what we hoped when we looked into it, but unfortunately the LCD manufacturers disagreed. Our volumes are nothing compared to computer manufacturers who order parts in the hundreds of thousands. To get the parts we need, we generally have to deal with traders and work with whatever surplus inventory is available. Sourcing high quality displays (1920x1080 HD tested without defects) at reasonable prices has been the most challenging part of our business. Combine this with all the custom parts we order (brackets, boards, cables) and it's an expensive endeavor.

We have been considering offering selectable single-color displays but it will probably take a surplus of LCD screens to have a significant impact on the hardware costs our pricing is based on. At current pricing, we already provide a lower cost alternative to Vishay's discrete (grid-free) LED displays with additional color options. With additional optimization, it might be possible to get closer to the cost of some matrix LED displays. In the meantime, we're continuing to add value where we can and working on new products and features.

I do like the white on TZ but I'm partial to those who've pointed out that the rest of the playfield/backglass/cabinet is color. When we do have something to offer for TZ, I would hope that we can find a way to combine both color and black&white elements in an interesting way. However, given the complexity of coloring TZ, leaving it white would be way easier!

Thanks to all for the continued support and suggestions. We are listening!

Randy
www.colordmd.com

Good. In that case, please make Monster Bash the next Color DMD model!

He meant to say IJ.

Or just do another release of what you already did. I missed out on TAF release that sold out in an hour.

Why does the LCD need to be such a high resolution for reproducing such a low resolution display? Is is so the Low res dots look right?

TZ, WH2O !!!

Wow, that B/W DMD for Twilight Zone looks great!!!!!

B/W on TZ is awesome!

The LCD displays don't have to be high res. The problem is the only thing that's available now are HD displays. I'm kind of surprised they are "forced" (as they make it appear) to buy high end 1080p panels. A lower end 1280x1024 would work just fine, or if they need the wider aspect ratio, 1280x720. Looking that far away from the screen and having just dots displayed you wouldn't notice a difference unless you really eyeballed it close up.

Good question. Actually we don't need the high resolution at all. The first prototype used a 1366x768 notebook display and the dots looked great. I'd prefer to use these as they're much more readily available and less expensive. The problem is backlight bleed through and limited field of view with the lower resolution displays.

The HD displays use a different technology that provides better contrast when viewing off angle. This is really important for pinball since we're standing and looking down on the display. The vertical field of view for lower resolution notebook displays is pretty awful. They work well for notebooks because you can tilt them to reduce the viewing angle.

Randy
www.colordmd.com