Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Vision Stars in Center Field for Chicago White Sox

White Sox Open 2003 Season with an All Star in Center Field

Mitsubishi Electric Diamond VisionŽ Display Offers Fans Outstanding Game Images

NAB Booth: SL-1831 --- April 8, 2003 --- The Chicago White Sox opened their 2003 season with a versatile all star in center field: A new Diamond Vision LED scoreboard display. Created by Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Vision Systems, the LED (Light Emitting Diode) large-scale, video display measures 28 feet by 53 feet and features vivid colors and great viewing angles from nearly every seat in U.S. Cellular Field.

In addition to the main screen, Mitsubishi Electric also installed two 300-foot-long, five-foot-high video LED "ribbon" boards that will run along the facade of the ballpark's upper deck. Those LEDs are the largest continuous video ribbon boards in Major League Baseball, and the highest-resolution video ribbons in professional sports. When synchronized with the center field display, the LED ribbon boards can layer graphics and scoring in real time over video, as well as import animations, text, video and graphic images.

"The White Sox wanted a video system that reflects the exciting, explosive team that we put on the field," said Terry Savarise, White Sox vice president of stadium operations. "The upgrading of our scoreboard video and the addition of the LED boards give us the very latest in technology, and will be a great source of entertainment and information for fans.

"Also, because the White Sox are hosting the 2003 Major League Baseball All Star Game, it was critical to find a display that enhances the beauty of U.S. Cellular Field. We visited several stadiums across the country, and the Diamond Vision screen was clearly the best we saw," Savarise added.

The Diamond Vision video display screen will be one of the highest-resolution screens in Major League Baseball, featuring 672 x 1280 dot density, jitter-free images and HDTV, and true wide-screen compatibility. Housing more than 1,680 LED modules with more than 860,000 color dots, the Diamond Vision screen can create more than one billion colors to present faithful reproduction of video images, seamless animations and spectacular viewing angles.

In the last two years, Mitsubishi Electric has installed more than 85 Diamond Vision screens for sports, entertainment and advertising use in premier venues across the country. Recent installations include the Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium for the Denver Broncos; Yankee Stadium; the new Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas; and an 11-screen display on Times Square in New York City. NBA/NHL facilities include Staples Center in Los Angeles, home of the Lakers and Kings; Conseco Fieldhouse, home of the NBA Indiana Pacers; The Palace at Auburn Hills, home of the NBA Detroit Pistons; and Philips Arena in Atlanta, home of the NHL Thrashers and NBA Hawks. Collegiate installations include Penn State University, Southern Methodist University, University of Kentucky, Texas Tech University, Brigham Young University, and University of Nebraska.

Mitsubishi Electric was the first company to introduce large-scale video display boards for the 1980 Major League Baseball All-Star game at Dodger Stadium. Today, Mitsubishi Electric's flagship product is the Diamond Vision LEDERBOARDŽ, a full-color, LED (light emitting diode) display system which merges the company's expertise in large-scale video displays with LED technology. The result is a stunning, high-resolution video image from a thinner, lighter, energy-efficient medium, with an amazing 170-degree horizontal viewing angle and a 1.5 times improved image resolution. Mitsubishi Electric's Colorspace Conversion technology converts the chromaticity of each color of the LED display to more accurately reproduce the colors of the original image. Whether the audience is viewing a sporting event or a concert, the image they see on a Diamond Vision large-scale video display is as clear and true-to-life as the actual event they are watching.

About Diamond Vision
Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Vision large-scale screens, advertising displays and signs have been star performers at major events worldwide. Beginning with the world's first full-color, large-scale display installed by Mitsubishi in 1980, sports stadiums, racetracks, arenas, coliseums and concert halls have come to depend on Diamond Vision for the highest resolution, the brightest, most colorful and clearest imaging available. Diamond Vision headquartered in Lawrenceville, GA, is a division of Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation of Japan.
For more information about Diamond Vision, visit http://www.diamond-vision.com.





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