http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/ Engadget Comments for Gigantic LED display board goes live at Walgreens in Times Square http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/
Amazing...]]>Nov 21st 2008 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/can i hook up my PS3 to this?]]>Nov 21st 2008 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/
No.]]>Nov 21st 2008 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/
'To create the imagery, 150GB of information is transmitted every 30 seconds from 32 custom-built computers. Because so much information has to be transmitted so quickly, all of the imagery is sent in an uncompressed format; if it were compressed to save space, too much computing power would be need to uncompress the information.']]>Nov 21st 2008 7:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/
150GB over 30 seconds = 5GB per sec
150 x 150 pixels * 4 bytes per pixel * 60 frames per second = about 5GB

I think my ZX Spectrum could run that...
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dubai has nothing over the arts, entertainment, and culture of NYC - so stfu

btw dubai is greatly divided among the haves and have nots - it has pretty serious social issues that it would love to continue to throw under the rug. but sure - gohead and have your $20 mill firework display

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NEW YORK USA!...
truth, justice and the American way...

I'd rather take a walk at 3 am in the morning in NY than go to dubai...

I ]]>Nov 21st 2008 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/
/sarcasm

(btw im a ny'er)]]>Nov 21st 2008 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/
Yes buy in NY, you are FREE to leave, and they do not take your passports until you finish your slave work...]]>Nov 21st 2008 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/
To Stan:

The people were not just making out, they were having sex on a public beach. Big difference.]]>Nov 21st 2008 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/
It's not a personal attack on you or the USA - so just chill out a little bit.]]>Nov 21st 2008 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/
USA #1 bitch]]>Nov 21st 2008 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 7:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/walgreens-blazing-return-to-times-square/]]>Nov 21st 2008 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 7:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/
thanks, because now your 3" looks like someone making a poopie... this will come in handy for my future comments...]]>Nov 21st 2008 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/
A little over the top, considering you can get away with things like, fuck, shit and piss.]]>Nov 21st 2008 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/The market has no supply!!
$1 for an LED keychain flashlight is outrageous ]]>Nov 21st 2008 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/

Please, no more of that.]]>Nov 21st 2008 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/So, this is why the US declined ratification of the Kyoto Protocol...]]>Nov 21st 2008 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/
On a different note though, I was always told that LED displays did not work well in places of high altitude. Does anyone know to what affect this problem is going to have on an LED display that is 33 stories in the air? ]]>Nov 21st 2008 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/I though that the sign with "Great Ballestros Released From Intensive" on it is the gigantic led board....
I had to do some other research before knowing that the "Zyrtec" sign was the led board.]]>Nov 21st 2008 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/
Yes you do get ticketed in dubai for making out in public and yes Yyu get jail time for having sex in public. Also the Bronx has a Giant LED display it was turn on a couple of months ago. The VIM store(is a sneakers and jean store) in Fordham road.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 21st 2008 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/gigantic-led-display-board-goes-live-at-walgreens-in-times-squar/Nov 22nd 2008 7:48PM