We have original silkscreen films for alot of the DE playfield titles it appears ... issue tends to be getting permissions for DE titles which are all 3rd parties

PPS has nothing to do with DE or Stern permissions ... just had indicated we had the film ... we have a bunch of the DE films probably when Gene bought out TAG.

Yes, I know exactly what happened to it Mike Just opening alot of 'misc'' films which are DE playfields that TAG had done. We're going thru all the films to see what is there, what's usable, etc ... didn't expect to see DE films but the TAG purchase they must have gotten that.

Alot of other films have 'popped' up as well from others, which I hope we can get put to good use ... a benefit from some of the changes around IPB.

rick

as I said earlier there are two big problems with DE/Sega playfields a) they are much less in demand, and b) almost all of them were 3rd parties ... now if lucky and the 3rd party is easy to deal with (i.e. doesn't want any or alot of $), then there might be some possibilities ... but my guess is that is something we would see if CPR is interested in doing.

rick

Difference is that we have a fully staffed art department that understands what to do and how to do it to get any of these films usable directly ourselves, in many cases about a couple of hours to have art ready to be screened ... we just finished Party Zone plastic art, Roadshow plastic art, Demo Man is just about done, as well as a half dozen cabinet decal sets (that we can print NextGen ourselves) ... this plus many more things were created in the last two weeks ...

We are posting what we have on our PPS forum (which I am not trying to do any sort of a plug on) as there will be alot and do not want to overrun pinside with all the items that we are working on.

rick

Guys ... things are not on hold as Stu seems to convey, we have actually a ton more projects that we have films for that we are discussing with CPR. As for the short term list, we are going thru and getting approvals for them, and as I've told Kevin a day or so ago, most all of the ones on their list were fine, and some (with CPR's concurrence) we would be using OEM films vs scanned art (backglasses, etc). I'm sorry that there is drama on this, but things are not as they appear ...

rick

We take the films and input them digitally and actually register them better than the films would as well as can then digitally modify whatever we need to - as original registration using films is 'close' but was never spot on ...

PPS will be able to update on projects as it makes sense, we have another place to do that now, and will update on projects that we are doing internally as well as ones that are assigned to a supplier (when we get agreement with that supplier to give an update). Given that the timelines of projects from vendors often slip we are staying away from saying when projects from any of these suppliers will happen as everything changes based on a number of factors (like availability of wood, artwork issues, insert lead times, supplier has had life interfere with their projects, supplier has had technical issues delaying the project getting done, etc). For B/W titles we are updating various projects that are in the pipeline.

Most all suppliers have a different date they 'say' something will be done vs when it actually is done - for which we cannot control - and often there are very good reasons why ...

thanks,
rick