Quoted from flynnibus:Daydreaming? The competition has already shown what is possible and what you gain. JJP and AP both offer huge advantages over the 1995 Sega Portals menu that Stern continues to use DECADES later.
LCDs are a gimmick to get customers to play a game. They offer nothing to the actual gameplay. There is no game that has taken advantage of a color display. Stern and JJP's menus are the same thing except one offers the info vertically and the other is screen by screen. AP's menu system is nothing to write home about not that many people have seen them.
Quoted from flynnibus:Yeah, keep defending 'nothing to gain' when comparing a 32 line DMD to a high res 1080 full color display. For sure.. nothing could possibly be done better than what they did 25 years ago... and nothing has changed in needs or anything right??
Stern's market is the home buyer now... maybe, just maybe, that customer base has different needs than the 1995 operator?
Not that anyone could tell from Stern's offering.
You conveniently forget pin2k in your argument. Glad to see they are still around. I'm sure operators really cared about a menu system over an intellectual property.
