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Lightning Vision

By Damian Cristodero
Published October 4, 2007

Lightning Vision

The new scoreboard at the St. Pete Times Forum makes the arena's old Dot Matrix Jumbotron, vintage 1996, seem like a relic. The details:

- The scoreboard has 9,465,856 LEDs (light emitting diodes), which make up 2,366,464 individual pixel light points.

- The light pixels are 10 millimeters apart, which creates the high-definition picture.

- The scoreboard has 2,253 square feet of video capability, more than five times the Jumbotron's 432.

- The main "broadcasting center" (largest display board) is 151/2 feet high and 106 feet wide in a continuous 360-degree exposure. When broken apart, each of the four sides has a 39-foot-2 diagonal picture compared with the Jumbotron's 14-2.

- The halo at the top of the scoreboard adds another 610 square feet of video capacity.

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