Thinking about getting the color dmd for Lotr.

The best "mod" for a pinball machine would be Stern catching up with everybody else and putting an LCD in the pin

Going from Pong to Intellivision games was very cool, but I'd say PS4 is much better!

Edit: ToM color DMD sold. Thanks guys.

I'll probably break my own rules here and pickup one for LOTR. There is so much detail in the animations for this one, that I feel the bang for buck is not too bad. Besides, LOTR is a never leaving game, so it's not too bad an investment.

I have one in my STTNG and it's really cool but I don't think I would buy any more due to the high price tag. Also, the black levels of the LCD aren't that great. It's more of a dark grey vs. black. I know that's a common drawback to LCD's and not the ColorDMD guy's fault but it's bothersome to me. If they were to find a way to improve the black levels and get the price under $299 I would buy them for my other machines, but otherwise I'm content just to keep using my old school orange DMD display's.

I think the worst color dmd is taf because it doesn't have many animations .....

Not many animations in color > orange. Glad I put the color dmd in my TAF.

Bought another one today. Score!

Speaking of worth the money...................they are accepting orders now and free shipping if you buy three. GO!!!!!!

Ordered my LOTR ColorDMD today! My precious.......

More with the gold rom.I held off on getting one for Taf and didn't much like the gold rom.

Completely agree.....love mine.....

I cringe every time I pay for one, then when it arrives and I install it, I think "Awesome! What took me so long to buy this?"

Have them installed in 4 pins right now, my IJ is the only one waiting for one (and cryin'!).

Finally have enough money to buy a color DMD---but see on the website they don't have a single one in stock. I hope I didn't miss my chance.

More in production now - will be ready in a few weeks. Join the mailing list to get notified when orders are opened up!

Same for me , i had the money now

LOTR is night and day. I've had my game since 2004 and the day I installed my color DMD I noticed animations I had never noticed before.

LOTR and Metallica are for sure buys IMHO.

NO totally not worth it, I do not recommend that you get started w color dmd's.

They are like frickin' potato chips, can't just have one......

Unless of course, you happen to like potato chips!

"Depends on the game".

Original DMD SS, not really.
New Modern SS, sometimes, they do accent the games factory designed with LEDs in mind, very well, if the dot animations were solid.

What collectors do not take into consideration are THREE factors:

1) This does not automatically make the game "worth more" when it gets flipped when an owner gets "bored", runs out of money, or wants a new toy

2) "X" game in a collection still needs to be in good repair even to use this low voltage display, especially when an owner installs a ridiculous amount of mods using the same +12V line. A lot of new collectors have learned this way too late, and do not understand what happened to their PCB voltage lines, or were careless in installations.

3) Replacing an ENTIRE collection of games with LCDs continues to be prohibitively expensive right now, until future modern games incorporate this feature and technology costs continue to decrease. A few games (<10) is not really a huge issue, 50 is another story altogether. More than 100? That is just out of the universe. Most collectors would rather have more games.
50 Color DMD installed games = $20k = an average of anywhere between 5-10+ DMD machines in good repair = 40+ EMs/early SS.

Games are like potato chips, not Color DMDs.
Most people do not stare at the screen while they play.
"To each their own" if they do.

What's kinda funny, a dmd blew up on me (chip did) and I needed a new one for my Judge Dredd (wayyy before they colorized it).
So I got a colorDMD and set it to white and man the animation is more crisp and smooth.
I'm sick of orange haha and plasma dmds are around 200$ now!

Must admit that I do really like color displays but also like to fiddle. So went the DiY route for acdc and Met which saves approx 50%. For my GnR I went the colordmd route and it is awesome. It is a true plug and play solution

Is it worth almost usd 500 over here in Europe? For me yes but for each his own

No, it's not worth it. At least not here in Europe for almost EUR 500. I would be interested for 250 - 300. But it seems to be normal to sell pinball parts with 500 percent mark up...

Sure. At least buy one to keep in your marquee game like AFM. Most mods are stupid but this does it perfectly - enhances and improves while keeping the original feel.

You can always sell your regular DMD for $100.

And people, it's $100 for a used DMD with no flaws. Stop trying to get $150 for them, that's ridiculous.

I think it really depends on the game. XMEN for example looks incredible with a ColorDMD, especially in the high res mode.

I really love mine. It's hard to look at orange dots when you're used to color.

I think it's the best mod...with the exception of putting LED's in an older pin. I have 6 of them and plan on getting others in time. I think it really updates the overall look of a game and makes the information being displayed much easier to take in. You can probably turn around and sell the DMD too, which helps offset some of the cost.