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Mitsubishi Electric Installs Diamond Vision Screen at Hakodate Racecourse

Main display will begin operating June 19 to open a new stand.

Published

14 years ago

June 8, 2010

Louis M. Brill Signs of the Times May 2010 Issue

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo) has installed a 17 x 7 sq. meter Diamond Vision™ screen as the main display system at Hakodate Racecourse, operated by the Japan Racing Association (JRA) in Hakodate, Hokkaido.
The main display features high-luminance LEDs aligned in a 10mm-dot pitch. The split-screen display can simultaneously showcase two screens of content, such as live footage of a race or the paddock on one screen, and race odds and other data on the other.
The display will begin operating June 19, when the racecourse will celebrate the grand opening of a new stand.. The display will replace the old facility’s CRT main display, also built and installed by Mitsubishi in 1996.
Mitsubishi Electric has also installed a 15m x 8m, 659-in. Diamond Vision™ screen featuring LEDs aligned in 8mm-dot pitch at the racecourse. The display, called “Paddock Theater,” has shown both live images and racing odds from other racecourses for off-track betting since February 27, 2010.

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