It’s April and that means, BASEBALL. The new Yankee Stadium opened its doors to excited fans on April 2 with its annual team workout and the Yankees unveiled the most advanced, high-definition Diamond Vision™ display in center field. This installation continues the long-standing relationship between the New York Yankees and Mitsubishi Electric, which in 1983 installed one of the first Diamond Vision™ video displays in Major League Baseball. (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 in Los Angeles.) Definitely not a “jumbotron” or mere scoreboard, the Yankees’ new Diamond Vision™ display blasts 1080 resolution from more than eight million LEDs (light-emitting diodes) for brilliant replays, updates from around the league and messaging. Measuring 100-feet wide and nearly 60-feet tall, the Diamond Vision™ is longer than the distance between the bases, delivering 5,925 square-feet of high-definition display area and using 8,601,600 LED lamps with exceptional viewing angles that provide sharp images visible from nearly every seat in the ballpark. (By comparison, the scoreboard at the previous Yankee Stadium measured 24.9-feet by 32.8-feet with 486,400 LED lamps.) The Yankees’ new Diamond Vision™ will be driven by Mitsubishi Electric’s state-of-the-art DSC2 digital display controller, providing picture-in-picture type technology with the flexibility to show one large 1080 HD image, or up to four simultaneous 1080 HD images.
Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Vision™ Display at Yankee Stadium Stats:
- Width: 100.79 feet
- Height: 58.79 feet
- Total Display Area: 5,925 square-feet
- Total LEDs: 8,601,600
- Pixel-Pitch: AVL-ODQ8 with 8mm dot pitch
- Video Source: 1080 HD
- Content Management: Mitsubishi Electric DSC2 Digital HD Display Controller Resolution: 1080 x 1920, plus an additional lower row of 48 pixels for messaging
- Installation Start Date: Summer 2008
- Installation Completion Date: March 2009
