Technographic Displays has launched TechEvent - a brand new video and graphics control system aimed at live events generally and athletics presentations in particular. We have  been providing ACTIV-Banner operational services and equipment to Creative Technology for use at UK Athletics events run by Fast Track since February 2003. ACTIV-Banner specifically linked to Unitek LED displays and, with LED panel technology moving on, the final ACTIV-Banner athletics scoreboard appeared at The Norwich Union International meeting in Glasgow on 27th January 2007.

The EAIC scoreboard heralds a new era of flexible-format event presentation display systems.

Arthur Jackson of Technographic Displays operated the screens under the direction of Fast Track over the course of all three days of the European Athletics Indoor Championships.

Credits for the EAIC system:

• Event presentation: Fast Track Events

• Screen rental: Creative Technology

• Screen model: Mitsubishi DiamondVision OD10

• Event database: STS

• Invincibull animations: Gizmo Animation

• Customised TechEvent User Interface, Operation and Graphics Servers: Technographic Displays

TechEvents:

• Norwich Union Grand Prix,NIA, Birmingham, February 2007

• European Athletics Indoor Championships, NIA, Birmingham, March 2007

• Norwich Union Glasgow Grand Prix, Scotstoun, Glasgow, June 2007

• World Trials and UK Championships, July 2007

• London Grand Prix, August 2007

2008:

TechEvent is being developed into a networked cricket scoreboard and replay screen control system for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club.

TechEvent Scoreboard (left) at Norwich Union Grand Prix, February 2007

TechEvent Scoreboard at the European Athletics Indoor Championships, March 2007.

TechEvent was configured for multiple formats. The format above enabled live action to be displayed against live data.

Action replay with event results directly from the event database.

A two-video-window mode allowed simultaneous coverage of two live events or live shots of the infield presenters to be shown without any action being missed.

A number of "Invincibull" animations could be played out either  full-screen (as shown above), within the scoreboard area, or else in one of the video windows.