Illinois invests for better Memorial Stadium game experience
August 15, 2013 12:47 PM
The centerpiece of the video upgrade is a monstrous main video "scoreboard" sitting atop the south end zone that is 125 feet across, six stories high and increases the size of the video board alone from 800 to more than 3,400 square feet. And that says nothing of the pristine picture clarity, something Illinois' Director of Video Services Andy Young looks at and marvels. "It just glows," he said. "It's all the things we never had before."
Making it all the more remarkable is that the new Memorial Stadium scoreboards and the video board that hangs over center court at the State Farm Center (formerly Assembly Hall) are mostly operated from a control room located east of the basketball arena inside the Bielfeldt Athletic Administration Building.
Cost of the new football scoreboards (one main board, three ribbon boards, two auxiliary replay screens and an additional scoreboard atop the seats in the north end zone) is $6.2 million. But upgrades to the production control room at Bielfeldt (making the operation compatible for high definition) cost another $1 million, bringing the total cost to $7.2 million.
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Making it all the more remarkable is that the new Memorial Stadium scoreboards and the video board that hangs over center court at the State Farm Center (formerly Assembly Hall) are mostly operated from a control room located east of the basketball arena inside the Bielfeldt Athletic Administration Building.
Cost of the new football scoreboards (one main board, three ribbon boards, two auxiliary replay screens and an additional scoreboard atop the seats in the north end zone) is $6.2 million. But upgrades to the production control room at Bielfeldt (making the operation compatible for high definition) cost another $1 million, bringing the total cost to $7.2 million.
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