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NFL and Super Bowl branding goes on anything you can think of — street signs, building wraps, light posts, buses, trains, cars and more. There are also videos, structures, exhibits, and other displays using technology to get the message out.

The Super Bowl LVI between the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals will take place on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022 at SoFi Stadium. The stadium is also home to Samsung’s4k Infinity Display, spanning more than 70,000-square feet that includes complementary audio with more than 260 JBL speakers built into the screen’s frame.

Samsungsays the dual-sided display is the largest videoboard ever created for sports. The company adds that it engineered the display to provide stadium patrons an immersive experience.

The Samsung Infinity Display sits 122 feet above the playing field in full view of everyone. It also utilizes more than 80 million pixels. The 2,200-pound HDR10+ enabled videoboard is 120 yards long. Meanwhile, its tallest panel stands about 40-feet tall and its smallest panel is about 20-feet tall.

The company then shifts to the screen’s design. Here, the global electronics company says that engineers analyzed the stadium’s architectural drawings. This helped them develop the shape and orientation of the Samsung Infinity Display. Samsung also emphasizes that the massive video screen’s design was paramount to the project. Thus, they chose screen’s shape and size to ensure that everyone in the stadium can see the screen.

Other aspects of the L.A.-based venue’s in-game experience include more than 2,600 Samsung large-format displays. These displays strategically placed throughout SoFi Stadium. They also include Samsung ribbon boards (long, thin LED screens) placed on the face of balconies.

The LED displays being used at Mercedes-Benz Stadium total the most square footage of any stadium in the world “to provide the best game-day experience possible for fans and viewers,” he says.

Daktronics will have four display technicians and two control room technicians at Mercedes-Benz Stadium for Super Bowl LIII. That includes pre-event checks and game day support from the services division.

“With people on site, it really is a benefit to our customers that many people might not think about when purchasing a display. We’re always available to ensure everything runs as expected, and this weekend we’ll be at Mercedes-Benz Stadium to do just that.”

Mercedes-Benz Stadium features 16 LED displays totaling 83,500 square feet, including the world’s largest video scoreboard, the Halo Display. The Halo, measuring 58 feet high by 1,075 feet round, is large enough for a helicopter to fly through and the length of three football fields when rolled out to its full 62,000 square feet.

The Mercedes-Benz Stadium halo board is more than five stories tall and can show as many eight different TV feeds inside the halo. This wasn’t Daktronics’ first foray into halo-style displays, with an oval-shaped display called Oculus outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, but this was by far the most complex installation of its kind.

The display has two different radii, says Jones, and all cabinets within the halo have a curve to them. In total, the halo video board has 616 pieces and Daktronics had less than a month to install them all, meaning some periods of non-stop action as the deadline neared.

The halo board isn’t the only technological marvel inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium though. A massive mega column display, a curved triangle-shaped feather wall display, narrow pixel pitch displays in club areas and 3,100 linear feet of ribbon displays highlight the uniqueness of technology throughout the venue.

Like millions of fans, I can’t wait for Sunday’s Big Game – partly to cheer on my favorite team, but also because of the action that will unfold at SoFi Stadium – the most technologically advanced football venue made possible by the next-generation of display technology from another one of my teams: Samsung.

Positioned 122 feet above the playing field, the oval display spans 70,000 square feet and features approximately 80 million pixels enhancing the in-stadium fan experience like never before – from larger-than-life instant replays and up-close game action in stunning 4K resolution to game stats, interactive updates and more.

In fact, delivering the best viewing angles for fans was one of Samsung’s highest priorities. By using the measurements from the stadium architectural drawings and simulating viewing angles on the test screen, Samsung implemented the Infinity Screen to ensure that every seat in the stadium offers a great view of the videoboard. We didn’t forget the sound experience either – the display is equipped with a state-of-the-art audio system with more than 260 individual JBL by Harman speakers embedded into its frame –  equal to 1,500 home theater systems.

Samsung didn’t stop there. We worked with the stadium to bring in other Samsung solutions, including more than 2,600 large format displays, ribbon boards (long, thin LED screens mounted on the face of balconies) and audio equipment. No matter where you are in the stadium, you won’t miss the action on or off the field.

Every large format display at SoFi Stadium is 4k and utilizes HDR10+ making the picture quality life-like and full of vibrant colors, sharper contrasts and crisper details. The same can be said for any fan who is viewing the game directly from a Samsung TV or compatible devices at home. Thanks to HDR10+ technology, viewers can watch the big game from the comfort of the couch, but with the feeling that they’re at the stadium itself. Anyone wanting to enjoy this immersive experience at home for themselves can take advantage of massive savings on Samsung TVs through the end of the month.

Samsung is the official display, mobile, and TV partner of Hollywood Park, a near 300-acre sports and entertainment destination and home to SoFi Stadium.

The oval display features approximately 80 million pixels spaced 8 millimeters from center-to-center and can be uniquely or congruently programmed with statistics, live and/or animated content

"It"s been a long time coming, but we are so proud to announce The Infinity Screen by Samsung," said Mark Quiroz, Vice President, Display Division, Samsung Electronics America. "SoFi Stadium is one of the NFL"s crown jewels and it has been a privilege and an honor to work with the team on this project. We are incredibly excited to see fans engage with the Infinity Screen in-person for the first time."

The process of naming the videoboard at SoFi Stadium took many months of consideration and testing, with the team reviewing over a dozen names that communicated Samsung and SoFi Stadium"s overall vision. The name Infinity comes from Samsung"s long history with bezel-less displays and the videoboard"s unique design. From mobile devices to displays like The Wall, Samsung is known for its infinite displays and the Infinity Screen at SoFi Stadium is no exception.

With the Colts and Saints set to do battle in Super Bowl XLIV, this seemed worth looking into as a public service. Could it be that some of those giant flat panel TV sets now finding their way into US living rooms are actually violating copyright law?

US Code Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 110 is called "Limitations on exclusive rights: exemption of certain performances and displays," and it lays out 12 of these exemptions to copyright restrictions. Are 55+ inch TVs mentioned specifically? They certainly are.

TV broadcasts and movie showings can only be displayed so long as "no such audiovisual device has a diagonal screen size greater than 55 inches, and any audio portion of the performance or display is communicated by means of a total of not more than 6 loudspeakers." So there it is in black and white—a ban on big TVs!

Sort of. While my friend was right about what"s contained in the law, it"s important to put the words in context. In this case, the context is exemption number five, which deals with TVs. The exemption opens by saying that turning on a TV set in one"s house does not incur any sort of "public performance" liability under copyright law. So long as you"re using a set that can reasonably be described as "a single receiving apparatus of a kind commonly used in private homes," you"re in the clear. Advertisement

(Okay, not completely. You cannot make a "direct charge" to "see or hear the transmission," though you can apparently ask friends to cover the cost of food and drink. You also cannot further transmit the broadcast "to the public," so diverting a live video stream onto the Internet and streaming it to the world is right out. Otherwise, you"re fine.)

The rest of exemption five lays out a host of limitations to the exemption (yes, it"s a bit confusing), but they all apply to "an establishment"—a public gathering place, not a home. The rules get remarkably specific, apply differently to small and large venues, and come with restrictions on how many TVs or radios can be used in a place of business without running into trouble.

The "55 inch" language applies to large establishments of more than a few thousand square feet. Such places can show the big game on a TV set, but only if they don"t use "more than 4 audiovisual devices, of which not more than 1 audiovisual device is located in any 1 room, and no such audiovisual device has a diagonal screen size greater than 55 inches, and any audio portion of the performance or display is communicated by means of a total of not more than 6 loudspeakers, of which not more than 4 loudspeakers are located in any 1 room or adjoining outdoor space."

Translation: if you want to stick a bunch of TVs in a single public room (like a sports bar) or put up massive 80 inch panels in your fraternal organization, you"ll need to negotiate some sort of arrangement with the copyright holder. Advertisement

Daktronics, which supplies video scoreboards for sports venues across the country, provided the large screen LED displays for the Indianapolis Colts and Lucas Oil Stadium. (Interestingly enough, Daktronics said that the NFL facililties of both Super Bowl participants, the New England Patriots and New York Giants, use some of the latest Daktronics LED video and messaging technology in their stadiums.)

And according to NEC Display Solutions of America, there are plenty of NEC screens scattered around Lucas Oil Stadium, the most impressive display of which is the video wall at the stadium entrance:

"A video wall makes a bold statement in any application, but for a national pastime like the Super Bowl, its presence becomes part of the larger-than-life atmosphere of the day," said Ashley Flaska, vice president of marketing at NEC Display Solutions. "Our NEC video wall will be the first thing that people see as they embark on what for many will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience."

Like playing music in your taproom (check out ourblogon that here), we are concerned with number 4, the right to perform the work (the Super Bowl in this case) publicly.

You must have the legal right to broadcast the game to the public.  One way to get that right is to use a commercial television service such as a DirecTV or Xfinity business account.  The key here is that it’s a “business” account.  You can’t use your personal DirecTV login to show the game at the brewery.  Business accounts typically cost more than consumer accounts because they include the licenses needed to show the programming publicly. The same is true for manystreaming services– you need a specific type of account authorizing you to stream its content to the public.

The most significant increase in casting this year was a surge in spots featuring actors and actresses, musicians, and other public figures, featured in 65 percent of Super Bowl LIV ads compared to just 36 percent of spots last year.

Everyone is intrigued by the #Coinbase commercial except for Winnie, she pissed #SuperBowlLVI pic.twitter.com/nVqH5cgJh0— spencer lawrence (@spencerclw) February 14, 2022

Zonk was extremely interested in the tv for the @coinbase #SuperBowl commercial