The Falcons have a cool video board in new stadium

[CGI_Ram]

The Falcons are making a run at the Cowboys for coolest video board in football

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/l...-cowboys-for-coolest-video-board-in-football/

Jerry Jones might want to step his game up. The gigantic video board in AT&T Stadium now has competition in the form of the new video board at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.

The Cowboys' mammoth 180-by-72-foot wonder is now just the third-largest video screen in the NFL. Atlanta's 1,075-by-58-foot wraparound screen holds the title of the largest in the league. And if you take just one look at it, and you can tell that it is pretty awesome.

The Falcons posted a clip of the screen in action on the Instagram account. Check it out:


View: https://www.instagram.com/p/BVsyt_qBdd-/

We'd seen hints of this in clips from Madden 17, but now we've got the real thing, and it is pretty damn cool. It's not a giant, hanging video board like the one down in Dallas, but instead a screen that spans what appears to be the circumference of the stadium. Nobody will be punting any footballs and hitting the screen, and everyone, even those in the front rows, will be able to look up and see it.

 

[DaveFan'51]

The Falcons are making a run at the Cowboys for coolest video board in football

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/l...-cowboys-for-coolest-video-board-in-football/

Jerry Jones might want to step his game up. The gigantic video board in AT&T Stadium now has competition in the form of the new video board at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.

The Cowboys' mammoth 180-by-72-foot wonder is now just the third-largest video screen in the NFL. Atlanta's 1,075-by-58-foot wraparound screen holds the title of the largest in the league. And if you take just one look at it, and you can tell that it is pretty awesome.

The Falcons posted a clip of the screen in action on the Instagram account. Check it out:


View: https://www.instagram.com/p/BVsyt_qBdd-/

We'd seen hints of this in clips from Madden 17, but now we've got the real thing, and it is pretty damn cool. It's not a giant, hanging video board like the one down in Dallas, but instead a screen that spans what appears to be the circumference of the stadium. Nobody will be punting any footballs and hitting the screen, and everyone, even those in the front rows, will be able to look up and see it.

WOW! It make you wonder what Kroenke Has Planed for the New Rams Stadium!?!

 

[CGI_Ram]

WOW! It make you wonder what Kroenke Has Planed for the New Rams Stadium!?!

Rest assured, we'll have all the top shelf gear.

 

[Loyal]

They might be somewhat different, but both the Atlanta and Inglewood screens are called an "Oculus"

 

[MTRamsFan]

If you look at the Rams new stadium, it appears they will have a video screen all the way around the top of the stadium. A full 360 degree video screen.

 

[CGI_Ram]

If you look at the Rams new stadium, it appears they will have a video screen all the way around the top of the stadium. A full 360 degree video screen.
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https://www.si.com/nfl/2016/01/15/los-angeles-rams-inglewood-stadium-project-videoboard

Here is more information;

The Inglewood Stadium, the future home of the Los Angeles Rams, will possess a videoboard that is twice the length of the Dallas Cowboys’ at AT&T Stadium, reportsSportsBusiness Journal’s Don Muret.

The scoreboard, which will be called the “Oculus,” will reportedly be an oval, two-sided structure that is 50 feet tall, while stretching 120 yards in length.

“It’s an immersive experience,” HKS associate principal & senior vice president Andy Henning said. “You will feel like you’re sitting in the videoboard itself.”

The stadium is projected to open in 2019 and is also expected to be the future home of the NFL scouting combine, according to the Los Angeles Times.

 

[LACHAMP46]

Can't wait to see what's going on in Inglewood

 

[Ram65]

The company that makes the majority of NFL stadium video screens website has comparisons. They did not make the Los Angeles Rams Los Angeles Coliseum screen. Daktronics website:

http://www.daktronics.com/en-us/mar...y-URL&utm_campaign=Advertisement-Friendly-URL


They will make the new one.
http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/new...-minnesota-vikings/16sa8qutfabvk19i4xpochr2nr

".......Video design consultant WJHW and manufacturer Daktronics helped HKS with the design and reviews of the board, which will serve as one of the stadium’s signature features......"

 

[Angry Ram]

WOW! It make you wonder what Kroenke Has Planed for the New Rams Stadium!?!

Advertising, probably.

 

[MTRamsFan]

Advertising, probably.

Or Walmart Rollback Savings!

 

[OldSchool]

Didn't want to start a new thread for this but a small setback for the stadium. It will still open on time it seems but not at it's full functionality.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ium-roof-will-remain-closed-indefinitely/amp/

Last month, the roof at the new Falcons stadium successfully closed. Next month, it may stay that way for a while.

Via Tim Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AMB Group CEO Steve Cannon said Tuesday that the roof will be closed when the stadium opens next month, and that it will remain closed “for an undetermined period of time” thereafter. Cannon blamed the inability to fully mechanize the roof on construction delays.

As a result, Cannon said the roof will be closed both for the preseason home opener on August 26 and the regular-season home opener on September 17.

That conflicts with something Falcons president and CEO Rich McKay said in May on PFT Live. At the time, McKay said the roof will be fully operational from the moment the stadium opens.

 

[CGI_Ram]

Didn't want to start a new thread for this but a small setback for the stadium. It will still open on time it seems but not at it's full functionality.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ium-roof-will-remain-closed-indefinitely/amp/

Last month, the roof at the new Falcons stadium successfully closed. Next month, it may stay that way for a while.

Via Tim Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AMB Group CEO Steve Cannon said Tuesday that the roof will be closed when the stadium opens next month, and that it will remain closed “for an undetermined period of time” thereafter. Cannon blamed the inability to fully mechanize the roof on construction delays.

As a result, Cannon said the roof will be closed both for the preseason home opener on August 26 and the regular-season home opener on September 17.

That conflicts with something Falcons president and CEO Rich McKay said in May on PFT Live. At the time, McKay said the roof will be fully operational from the moment the stadium opens.

It sounds like the delay is due to the timing in which they can complete the calibration.

I am anxious to see it in operation!

http://www.atlantamagazine.com/news...-stadiums-roof-stay-shut-deep-falcons-season/

Mercedes-Benz Stadium’s roof to stay shut deep into Falcons season

The roof at Mercedes-Benz Stadium will remain shut deep into the Atlanta Falcons football season this fall, as engineers work to “mechanize” its opening and closing, Steve Cannon said today. Cannon, who is CEO of AMB Group, the parent company of the Falcons, made the announcement at a board meeting of the Georgia World Congress Center Authority.

The roof already can open and close—in fact it was being closed today, albeit slowly—but engineers are still working on automating the process, so it can happen essentially at the push of the button and within 11 minutes. Currently, when the eight petals converge or retract, the process is conducted over a period of hours, as engineers calibrate the speed, take measurements, and ensure the seals are correct.

Cannon explained that the automation process would normally take 40 days to complete, but that timeline assumes an empty stadium. Given the other work still being done on the stadium—and on the roof—the 40-day clock can’t start for several more weeks. And the amount of events scheduled to take place at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which opens August 26 with a Falcons pre-season game against the Arizona Cardinals, will extend that timeline further. Cannon said 16 events, attracting a total of 950,000 people, are scheduled to take place in the stadium within 40 days of its August 26 opening.

“The event calendar is pretty tight,” Cannon said after the board meeting. “We’re going to be doing the mechanization in the background [of these events].”

Cannon said he is “confident” the roof will be operable for at least part of the Falcons season, as well as the Atlanta United season, whose final regular season home game is currently scheduled for October 22.

Afterward, Atlanta Falcons CEO and President Rich McKay said he expected the roof will be operable for “more than one” Falcons game.

Stadium officials will not keep the roof open for any event until it’s automated, given that weather conditions can change quickly. “We can’t risk having it open and then having adverse weather conditions,” McKay said.

 

[Merlin]

The company that makes the majority of NFL stadium video screens website has comparisons. They did not make the Los Angeles Rams Los Angeles Coliseum screen. Daktronics website:

http://www.daktronics.com/en-us/mar...y-URL&utm_campaign=Advertisement-Friendly-URL


They will make the new one.
http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/new...-minnesota-vikings/16sa8qutfabvk19i4xpochr2nr

".......Video design consultant WJHW and manufacturer Daktronics helped HKS with the design and reviews of the board, which will serve as one of the stadium’s signature features......"

Seahawks be like: "Size don't matter!"

 

[OldSchool]

Seahawks be like: "Size don't matter!"

It gives them more space for the speakers filtering in crowd noise.

 

[Merlin]

Didn't want to start a new thread for this but a small setback for the stadium. It will still open on time it seems but not at it's full functionality.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ium-roof-will-remain-closed-indefinitely/amp/

Last month, the roof at the new Falcons stadium successfully closed. Next month, it may stay that way for a while.

Via Tim Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AMB Group CEO Steve Cannon said Tuesday that the roof will be closed when the stadium opens next month, and that it will remain closed “for an undetermined period of time” thereafter. Cannon blamed the inability to fully mechanize the roof on construction delays.

As a result, Cannon said the roof will be closed both for the preseason home opener on August 26 and the regular-season home opener on September 17.

That conflicts with something Falcons president and CEO Rich McKay said in May on PFT Live. At the time, McKay said the roof will be fully operational from the moment the stadium opens.

I think that board looks like crap. Understand why they did it that way, what with the lack of ceiling height to install a straight board, but it's too small of a circumference for the surrounding stadium IMO. They would have been better served with two long ones canted at a downward angle and a couple shorter ones for the end zone. And it would probably be cheaper than the curved ones too.

As to the Rams' oculus, gonna reserve judgment for when I see it actually built. In the conception drawing it looks like it runs out in a great enough circumference where we won't feel like we're trying to view the inside of a toilet bowl like Atlanta's, but until I see it not going to make any assumptions.