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Big HDTV for a bigger Texas Stadium

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Posted Wednesday, 18 June 2008

Jerry Jones, owner of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, has encouraged his architects to make the new Texas Stadium a bigger, better facility.

The new facility still has the rectangular hole in the roof, although it can be covered by a set of sliding doors. The wind makes a fierce howl as it whips through the construction site. In this YouTube video, the howl is audible over the freeway noise.

New Texas Stadium by Brandon Cripps

Beneath the hole is a set of 4 HDTV monitors that are suspended 110 feet over the football field:

The board will run from the 20-yard line to the 20-yard line — measuring 180 feet in length and 50 feet in height - making it the largest video board installation in the world.

There’s more information in this article from the Dallas Morning News, including a graphic that compares the board to city buses (Stack 4 large city buses. Repeat 6 times!), as well as the stadium’s web site.

Image of the stadium construction site courtesy of Brandon Cripps through a Creative Commons license.

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