Post by Skaggs on Nov 14, 2010 12:35:23 GMT -5
I have Siena Basketball season tickets and saw the new scoreboard at the Times Union Center for the first time last night. The scoreboard was part of a $1.6M facelift that included outdoor lighting and locker room upgrades, as well. A post on the Albany Devils page says the video screen is LED & HD. To see photos of the sequence of construction to erect the new improvements, go to the Albany Devils website.
Photo from Times Union
The screen is closer to 16x9 than 4x3, but I'm not sure it is a full 16x9. The video itself is MUCH more clear & crisp than the old color video screen, but I didn't think it looked as though it was displaying an HD picture, possibly because the arena doesn't use HD cameras.
Although, the game was on Time Warner Cable and I believe they used the TWC feed to display on the arena's video screen.
Can anyone who watched the game on TV verify if they showed it in 16x9 or 4x3? As I mentioned previously, TWC produces some games for Syracuse University Basketball and showed at least the first game in a letterboxed 16x9. Click here to see what I mean.
The TimesUnion Center's new scoreboard stopped working with about 8 minutes to go in the first half last night. At the time, Siena was ahead and Vermont proceeded to go on a scoring run, leaving the fans in the dark as to the score. The announcer attempted to mention the score more often than usual during the outage. The shot clocks and game clocks above each hoop continued to work, even though all of the new video scoreboards didn't. After halftime, the new scoreboards worked correctly.
The video screen came in handy when it showed several replays of a foul called on a Siena player who obviously had all ball while blocking an apparent dunk attempt by a Vermont player. Maybe the refs didn't like the video screen, as they were booed loudly by the Siena fans who watched the replays.
There is a "ribbon" board that is located on the facade of the upper deck, above the private boxes. However, the ribbon does not go around the entire arena, only approximately from endline to endline on both sides of the center of the arena. Most modern facilities have the ribbon board go around the entire arena. The TU Center has old fashioned, internally lit advertising signs on the facade in the space where it would have been nice to continue the ribbon board.
Photo from Times UnionThe screen is closer to 16x9 than 4x3, but I'm not sure it is a full 16x9. The video itself is MUCH more clear & crisp than the old color video screen, but I didn't think it looked as though it was displaying an HD picture, possibly because the arena doesn't use HD cameras.
Although, the game was on Time Warner Cable and I believe they used the TWC feed to display on the arena's video screen.
Can anyone who watched the game on TV verify if they showed it in 16x9 or 4x3? As I mentioned previously, TWC produces some games for Syracuse University Basketball and showed at least the first game in a letterboxed 16x9. Click here to see what I mean.
The TimesUnion Center's new scoreboard stopped working with about 8 minutes to go in the first half last night. At the time, Siena was ahead and Vermont proceeded to go on a scoring run, leaving the fans in the dark as to the score. The announcer attempted to mention the score more often than usual during the outage. The shot clocks and game clocks above each hoop continued to work, even though all of the new video scoreboards didn't. After halftime, the new scoreboards worked correctly.
The video screen came in handy when it showed several replays of a foul called on a Siena player who obviously had all ball while blocking an apparent dunk attempt by a Vermont player. Maybe the refs didn't like the video screen, as they were booed loudly by the Siena fans who watched the replays.
There is a "ribbon" board that is located on the facade of the upper deck, above the private boxes. However, the ribbon does not go around the entire arena, only approximately from endline to endline on both sides of the center of the arena. Most modern facilities have the ribbon board go around the entire arena. The TU Center has old fashioned, internally lit advertising signs on the facade in the space where it would have been nice to continue the ribbon board.