Quoted from viper001:And also I can't really describe technically what I didn't like about the translight except to say it didn't look to me as vivid or sharp as an original.
The translites look like inkjet prints. If you had a chance to get up close to one and look at it closely you could see the dithering pattern that gives it that look (what I did). They're just not as vivid as an RGB photographic translite (that's the process I use for my translites). The colors aren't as rich and they wash out slightly more from the lighting, and the details aren't going to be quite as sharp.
It's far from a deal killer, but that's probably why you were seeing that.
I thought the LED insert lighting looked great. I normally prefer a cool white under white inserts, but I thought the warm white felt good, like a modern not to the original look.
My only other beef was the DMD screen tearing. I found it distracting, I'd like to see them address it. I don't see tearing like that on my ColorDMD.