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Poll: "Almost there" HD sporting events, what's your take?

by Steven Kim posted Feb 18th 2008 at 7:41PM

Longhorns vs. Aggies
There's a great matchup tonight in college hoops pitting two Texas teams against each other: the Longhorns (11) will host the Aggies (#16). A cinema in Tyler, TX is going to be showing an HD feed of the game on the big screen (we shudder to think of an SD feed stretched out to about 70-feet). So, you get to enjoy HD and crowd interaction for $10. Bringing sports to theater/stadium type venues is nothing new, but it makes us wonder -- if people prefer HDTV to live sporting events (and EHD readers agreed), where do these "hybrid" offerings fit in? The price is way lower than the live venue, you still get crowd interaction and the creature comforts are not bad, either. So where do you weigh in? Sound off below!

Almost there HD sporting events, what's your take?

Texas Longhorns 'big as Texas' display completed

by Matt Burns posted Aug 21st 2006 at 12:39PM

While this scoreboard never really fit into the category of "largest-built HD display", it is still a huge high definition display and therefore worth mentioning on our site. The gigantic planned high-def scoreboard at the Texas Longhorns stadium is now complete and prepared to offer shade to half the neighborhood. This scoreboard is just huge and measures in at 134- x 55-feet that works out to be 144.85 diagonal screen. This HD scoreboard does pale in comparison to the 221 diagonal screen that is installed at a Japanese horse track, but high-def and football go together a lot better then high-def and horse racing.

[Thanks, Clay]

Texas Longhorns prepare to steal biggest HDTV crown

by Richard Lawler posted May 10th 2006 at 12:44PM

It was good while it lasted Miami. Daktronics, the same company who built the Dolphin Stadium twin-monster HDTVs has been contracted by the University of Texas to make one even bigger. As a part of renovations to their south end zone they are installing a 134x55-foot scoreboard, 370 square feet bigger than Miami's. As Engadget points out, it's actually slightly narrower and a little taller, bringing some conflict to the question of who is the biggest. All the same, if you want to check it out while everything is still bigger in Texas, you better hurry as a horse track in Tokyo is installing a 197-foot wide display.

If they had announced this last year, maybe Vince Young would have returned to lead them to another National Championship.

[Thanks for the tip Scott M!]




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