Colossus TV may be the world’s largest outdoor, center-hung, 4-side video display, but come this weekend, it’s also going to provide the ultimate viewing experience for fans attending the NCAA Final Four.
Fans at the University of Phoenix Stadium will see a version of Colossus TV hanging from the ceiling, but the rest of the monstrous structure is being used at the scoring tables, music festivals, fan areas and at other sporting events, like this weekend’s PGA Tour Shell Houston Open.
The center hung structure for the tournament will feature an LED top ring that is 80 feet in diameter and 6 feet tall, four high definition video screens that will be 32 feet wide by 18 feet tall, stats screens that will be 24 feet tall by 18 feet tall and a lower ring that will be 60 feet in diameter and 3 feet tall. There will be 764 LED panels, more than 12 million LED pixels, and over 1,800 square feet of LED. The LED screens weigh 38,000 lbs.
“Anyone who has already seen Colossus TV in person understands the power and intensity it showcases,” said Jerry Caldwell, executive vice president and general manager of Bristol Motor Speedway. “But now, thousands of fans in attendance and millions of fans watching around the world will get a taste of how state-of-the art Colossus truly is. It’s a great preview and we encourage fans to come to the Food City 500 and see the structure in all its glory.”
Colossus, completed in April of last year, has the highest viewing quality of any permanent outdoor stadium display in the world, featuring 2880 x 1350 lines of resolution. Compare that to the average home HD TV screen at 1920 x 1080. It currently hosts nearly 54 million LEDs and 18 million pixels, which are grouped tighter than the large-scale outdoor displays in Times Square.
The actual structure is even more impressive. Each LED screen at BMS is 29.5 feet tall and 62.9 feet wide, equaling approximately 1,145 50-inch televisions. The unit also features a lower viewing ring that measures five feet 11 inches high by almost 189 feet in circumference. The entire structure weighs nearly 700 tons and includes suspension cables that are larger than the vertical cables supporting the Golden Gate Bridge.
In addition to being present at the NCAA Final Four, sections of Colossus have also been used for the Ryder Cup and Austin City Limits Music Festival.
Race fans need not worry as Colossus TV will return to The Last Great Colosseum for re-installation just in time for the 25th anniversary of the Food City 500, April 21-23. To purchase tickets to the Food City 500, please call 423-BRISTOL or buy them online at www.BRISTOLTIX.com.
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