On behalf of the Wild, I'd like to offer instead the UFA rights to Josh Harding and a 3rd rounder. I know the Bolts could use some goaltending.
For an arena that's only 12 years old, I swear I've seen kitchen appliances with higher resolutions than our scoreboard.
Xcel Energy and Nationwide both seem to have been built around the time HD was still a passing fad. We're finally getting ours upgraded in time for the All-Star Game.
(Yes, that's right. We're spending more money to do the upgrade. Because while we may not have recent success, we still have pride.)
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Thanks, Howson, for cleaning up MacLean's toxic waste. Welcome, Kekalainen; let's get good things built!
Tampa Bay Lightning Chairman and Governor Jeff Vinik is privately funding a revolutionary, $5 million high definition (HD), center-hung video display system that will be installed into the Tampa Bay Times Forum before the start of the 2012-13 Lightning regular season. The system, developed by renowned industry-leader, Daktronics, will feature the largest high definition center-hung video displays in any U.S. or Canadian arena. It will include a state-of-the-art control room, and allow for a true high definition signal with 1,296 lines of resolution.
As long as it's not tall, and just wide across, that'd be pretty cool actually. I might actually like a scoreboard that was almost like the same proportions as scores on the broadcast, just scaled up.
Vinik just keeps digging himself deeper and deeper into a financial hole!
Yes he must be running out of money and has little or no assets (NHL, Area Football, part of the Red Sox, Hedge fund, not worth much), why else would he need partners to buy channel side. After giving ways $50K for each of the next 164 home games he may not renew it. Must down to only $500m.
FYI one of the reasons its being replaced is because nobody can work on it. The company that made the old one basically went out of business after completing it, and it has some temperature issues that cause the video to either leave big black pixels or have video "stick" and not render properly. Can't have that thing die in the middle of a game next year.
I wonder what its gonna look like, sounds HUGEEEE , almost TOO BIG.
Although a good canadian boy like isn't likely to end up in the st.pete times forum
it sounds like it going to be huge,but it won't be big like the cowboys scoreboard which is 160 by 72 feet and 11, 520 square foot,it is the largest scoreboard in the world
The small screens the Panthers have at Bank Atlantic Center are so pathetic. It's like watching a standard def tv from 1979. Totally pointless to even look at it.
