Technographic News

Members of the media and spectators at the Third npower Test at Trent Bridge between England and New Zealand were bowled over by the detail and clarity of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club’s new scoreboard and replay screen.

Technographic Displays was involved in all stages of the project, from system design, through software development and display installation to match-day operation and technical support.

The new replay screen is part of an £8.2 million new stand and office complex project being undertaken for Notts CCC by Clegg Construction. The project’s architect, Maber Associates, designed the 83 square-metre display into the structure of the office complex with the result that the display integrates perfectly with its surroundings. The new stand was officially opened by the Duke of Edinburgh on 5th June.

When first approached about the project in 2007 by consultants Arup, Technographic Displays recommended Mitsubishi Electric’s model ODQ10. Following the appointment of Clegg as main contractor, Mitsubishi Electric manufactured the display modules and Digital Screen Controller. Technographic Displays worked closely with Clegg to ensure that the installation of the screen did not compromise overall progress on the office building. The screen was first used at the Friends Provident Trophy match between Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire on 4th May, two weeks ahead of schedule.

In addition to the hardware installation, Technographic Displays developed TechEvent (originally developed in 2007 for athletics event presentations) into a cricket-oriented presentation system. The new version integrates with third-party cricket-scoring software, provides a flexible control interface and enables multi-format video inputs to be combined with scoring graphics and media replays generated within the TechEvent graphics server.

The LED display is driven at its dot resolution of 864 x 960 to ensure optimum detail of both video and text on the screen. The majority of matches are non-televised and at these events the entire display operates as a full-screen scoreboard. For televised events, the portrait format enables a 56 square-metre 4:3 video picture to be displayed above a 27 square-metre abbreviated scoreboard driven by TechEvent.

Tom Paterson, Match Operations Manager at Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club with responsibility for overseeing the redevelopment project, commented “Technographic Displays has provided us with a superb service, both during the design and installation of the screen and during our early adoption of the control software. The display quality is fantastic and the TechEvent software is proving to be just as powerful, flexible and reliable as we had hoped. In fact, we have yet to explore its full potential and look forward to doing so. The screen attracted universal praise at the Test Match, with many pundits describing it as the ‘best in cricket’ ”.

ACTIV-Banner at Wembley Stadium

Event production company Event360 commissioned Technographic Displays to provide and operate an ACTIV-Banner control system at the Carling Cup Final (Chelsea v Spurs) at Wembley Stadium on 24th February 2008.

Creative Technology installed the 20m-long array of LED display modules. Arthur Jackson of Technographic Displays configured the control software as a scoreboard showing the score and substitutions interspersed with Carling animations created by Event360.

The scoreboard was rigged immediately in front of the Royal Box, making it extremely prominent during the match and especially so for the presentation of the Carling Cup to the Tottenham team.

TechScore au Stade des Alpes

Mitsubishi Electric Europe has installed two giant video screens in the spectacular setting of the Stade des Alpes, home of Grenoble football side GF38.

Technographic Displays supplied a complete TechScore package for the project, complete with a French version of the user interface software.

New high-resolution video screen unveiled at The Trafford Centre

Technographic Displays has installed a 26 square metre video screen at Manchester's Trafford Centre. The 6mm pixel-pitch display has a stunning resolution of 1024 x 704 pixels.

The new screen replaces the original display designed and manufactured by Invision Microsystems for the opening of the Trafford Centre in 1998, which had run for about 85,000 hours.