World's Largest HD LED Video Displays

Shad Khan

The owner of the English Premier League team Fulham F.C. is Shahid "Shad" Khan, a Pakistani-born billionaire and automobile parts manufacturer (Flex-N-Gate) who lives and works in USA.

Khan's net worth is over $3.8 billion and earns him the 490th wealthiest person in the world as well as the richest person of Pakistani origin. Khan was once featured on the front cover of Forbes Magazine as “the face of the American Dream” (going from rags to riches by your own efforts).

Khan apparently enjoys the American dictum, “Think Big.”

In America, where he owns the National Football League's Jacksonville Jaguars he will partner with Daktronics to manufacture and install what it says will be the largest HD LED video displays in the world at each end zone of EverBank sports field in Florida.

EverBank Field

EverBank Field seats 67,246 fans (additional temporary seats added for big events can expand the capacity to well over 82,000). In all, 75% of the seats in EverBank Field are located on the field sides, and just 25% behind the end zones.

EverBank Field features two Touchdown Clubs, located at midfield on the east and west sides of the stadium. Each provides more than 70,000 square feet (6503 sq m) of air-conditioned comfort with a variety of food and beverage selections.

Each display will be long enough to reach just more than the distance from the goal post in one end zone to the goal post in the other end zone, and each display boasts more than 21,700 square feet (2016 sqm2) of active display area — almost enough to cover the entire field of play when combined — the company said.

The two massive end zone displays will each measure 60 feet high by 362 feet wide and feature a 13HD pixel layout. A goal of these displays was to have three side-by-side HD video images for multiple replay shots and other video content. A section 60 feet high by 106 feet wide (18.29m x 32.3m) gives the screens the needed real estate for that, with an extra 44-foot-wide (13.4m) buffer space for graphics and other content.

The displays also are still capable of showing one large image to highlight live video and instant replays, and can also be divided into any combination of separate windows to show a variety of graphics, animations, up-to-the-minute statistics, scoring information and sponsor advertisements.

"The collaboration between Daktronics and the Jacksonville Jaguars to manufacture the two largest LED video displays in the world is a testament to the engineering capabilities of our company," says Reece Kurtenbach, CEO Daktronics. "We are pleased to be able to produce these high-quality video display systems for the Jaguars and EverBank Field; it will create a memorable experience for fans when football season returns."

In this “field of displays,” below the north end zone display will be a display measuring nearly 10 feet high by 320 feet wide (3.05m x 97.5m) featuring the same 13HD pixel layout.

On the opposite end of the field, there will be two ribbon displays on both levels of fascia in the seating bowl below the south end zone main display. Each ribbon display will feature a 15HD pixel layout. The top display, measuring more than 3 feet high by 365 feet wide (0.9m x 111.3), is curved to appear the same length as the bottom display, which will measure more than 3 feet high by 295 (0.9m x 89.9m)feet wide.

Each side of the field will receive a ribbon display along the seating fascia, each measuring more than 3 feet high by 573 feet wide (0.9m x 174.7m), and featuring a 15HD pixel layout.

Four new displays will replace the existing displays in each corner of the stadium. These new displays will each measure approximately 18 feet high by 32 feet wide (5.5m x 9.8m) and feature a 15HD pixel layout.

Two additional displays will be installed above each tunnel at opposite corners of the stadium. These displays will each measure 6 feet high by 24 feet wide (1.8mm x 7.3m) and will also feature a 15HD pixel layout.

Daktronics also will be including its Show Control System with this installation, to provides a combination of display control software, video processing, data integration and playback hardware that forms a user-friendly production solution.

Did we mention that Khan’s UK football team, Fulham FC, is also building a new stadium… for 30,000 fans?

Won't it be interesting to see what display technology will be adopted for Fulham?…

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