New York Yankees Choose Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Vision

The New York Yankees have selected Mitsubishi Electric (Warrandale PA) Diamond Vision™ to provide the main, centerfield, H-D video-scoreboard display for the new Yankee Stadium, scheduled to open for the 2009 season.

In 1983, Mitsubishi Electric installed one of the first Diamond Vision™ video displays in Major League Baseball (MLB), and the Yankees organization confirmed the success of Mitsubishis’ screens throughout the years by continuing their relationship.

Mitsubishi Electric was the first company to introduce large-scale video displayboards for the 1980 MLB All-Star game at Dodger Stadium.

The new scoreboard will be, the company says, the first, true, H-D LED display in MLB using Mitsubishi Electric’s H-D Diamond Vision™ AVL-ODQ8 LED product. Mitsubishi Electric’s Q-Series display will allow for the display of up to four, simultaneous, 1,080 H-D images.

The Diamond Vision™ scoreboard has 8,601,600 LED lamps and is nearly 101 x 59 ft., which produces a 5,925-sq.-ft. display area. Resolution is 1,080 x 1,920 pixels, plus an additional lower row of 48 pixels for messaging. The display will be driven by Mitsubishi Electric’s DSC2 Digital Display Controller, which can show one large 1,080 H-D image, several H-D images, messages, scoring or other data simultaneously. The LED display can be split into four video streams. By comparison, the scoreboard that is being replaced at Yankee Stadium measures 24.9 x 32.8-in., with 486,400 LED lamps. Daktronics’ matrix signage will flank the new Diamond Vision screen.

Cisco will manage all the 1,400 stadium displays (many of them being flat-panel TVs) via an IP-based network; each of the 1,400 displays will have a unique, IP address. Videos will be encoded in MPEG4.