Newest "World's Largest HDTV" at Tokyo racetrack

Apparently bigger is always better in the realm of giant HDTVs, and the leapfrog game to have the largest -- even for just a few months -- continues as Mitsubishi has constructed a baffling 8,066 square-foot display at Tokyo Racecourse in Japan. By far the biggest Diamond Vision unit ever built, it trumps their own creation at Turner Field in Atlanta by spanning 218 feet wide by 37 feet high and allowing for 3 races to be shown at once. The two previous title-holders were Miami's Dolphin Stadium at 137 x 50 feet and Texas' Longhorn Stadium at 134 x 55 feet. Controversy over the true king will surely arise due to Tokyo's set only rising 37 feet in height and rocking an unorthodox 5.89 aspect ratio, but it does indeed sport Hi-Vision (1080), making it a legitmate HDTV. Personally, we'd be able to get more use from a couple plasmas, but if you've got the space acreage, there probably isn't a better way to spend $28 million.

[Via HD Beat]

[_man1c_ @ Jul 25th 2006 3:52PM]

oh man can i play my 360 on that thing just for one day? that be an awesome one day event.

[Jeff @ Jul 25th 2006 3:54PM]

Uh, I think we're gonna have to start defining "high definition" the way professionals define resolution - in dots per inch. Because clearly, an "HDTV" that size is not showing very much detail per square inch, and the larger you scale up, the lower the actual resolution.

I mean I could make a "high definition" black and white display out of 2 million standard 100 watt incandescent light bulbs from my local grocery store if we're just gonna define it by pixel size. I think there's gotta be some kind of acknowledgment that the point of HDTV is to max out the detail that your eye can perceive at an optimal viewing distance - which these displays aren't really designed to do.

[Poopmaster @ Jul 25th 2006 4:14PM]

$28 million dollars for a TV. That's sick and wrong! :o

[A Person @ Jul 25th 2006 4:22PM]

I can't wait to hook up my SNES to that! (That's SARCASM!!!)

[Zac @ Jul 25th 2006 4:30PM]

and i thought the 1.5million dollars we spent at the casino i worked was impressive...and we had to fly in a team from japan to install it took about a week..was kinda cool though, one the guys was from a town i lived in on mainland japan when i was a kid ;)

[diulei @ Jul 25th 2006 6:23PM]

I wish I had that. Or a house big enough to fit it. Or the money to buy it. Any will do.

[goke @ Jul 25th 2006 7:16PM]

with all the people dying from aids....lack of food....these guys spend their time creating a useless tv.......

[michael @ Jul 25th 2006 11:07PM]

it is not "longhorn stadium", it is "Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium".

http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=37&url_subchannel_id=&url_article_id=29&change_well_id=2

[Lee @ Jul 26th 2006 9:32AM]

I believe the previous title-holder was Hong Kong Jockey Club at 231 x 26 feet.

http://www.diamond-vision.com/photos/temp/11567f9de98723ca9ff1c861371e993a.jpg
http://mitsubishielectric.com/news/2003/9-9-03_Diamond_Vision_Guiness.html

[Scott @ Jul 26th 2006 12:51PM]

The Hong Kong Jockey Club's display is only 6000 square feet. The one in DKR - Texas Memorial Stadium is over 7,000 feet.

These new displays are called HD, because from across the stadium, they offer greater detail than conventional video screens. You don't need 72dpi on a screen that's 55 feet tall and 135 feet wide. You wouldn't be able to see every pixel from 100 yards away, so it'd be pointless. You'd have almost 50,000 pixels vertically and over 100,000 horizontally.

A high DPI for a stadium video screen isn't completely necessary. The video screen for UT's stadium has a 20mm pixel size. Not HD when you're sitting as far from it as you would from your living room TV, but pretty much anywhere in the stadium, it would look quite awesome.

Not only is it the pixel size, but the response time, and color depth of these displays that make them HD.

[kaztm @ Jul 26th 2006 3:35PM]

This screen is only 2,651-incher. I'll wait for a bigger model.

[711 @ Sep 4th 2007 4:56PM]

This is bigger than Frank's 2000" TV!

[Matt - Perth @ Oct 19th 2007 12:43AM]

WOW!!!! 2.4 million dollars????
How do I sign up??? I'd be more than willing to help!!!

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