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Check Out The New Yankee Stadium's Giant Screen - There's No Such Thing As Too Big

Posted March 25, 2009 10:11 AM

From OhGizmo!:

Given the Yankee's new stadium has a price tag of $1.3 billion, it's not surprising that some of that money has been spent on what has to be one of the largest 'TVs' in the world. The image you see here was taken by a New York CBS affiliate and shows an early test of the stadium's 103 by 58 foot (that's almost 6,000 square feet) Mitsubishi Diamond Vision LED display. It's composed of 8,601,600 LEDs and besides being HD it can also display up to 4 video feeds at one time, and do picture-in-picture. Unfortunately some fans are worried that the new screen might actually be too big, and that it could become a distraction or overshadow what's happening on the field, but apparently they've never sat through an entire baseball game before. As far as I'm concerned, the more distractions, the better.

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03/25/2009 11:55 AM

While I'm sure Yankee fans will argue that they have the largest/best everything, that is when reality sets in. There are a number of teams with larger HD screens and some have had them for years.

Dallas Cowboys – 180' x50' (9000 sq-ft)
KC Royals Stadium – 100'x85' (8500 sq-ft)
Arizona Diamondbacks – 144' x 55' (7920 sq-ft)
Dolphins Stadium – 137'x50' (6850 sq-ft)

If we are talking screens outside of sports stadiums the one in Times Square is 17,000 square feet and the world's biggest is in Dubai.

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Re: Check Out The New Yankee Stadium's Giant Screen - There's No Such Thing As Too Big

03/25/2009 12:12 PM

Next up, a screen that takes up the entire inside surface of a covered stadium's dome. Or the field itself.

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