Superbowl.... Lasers or no, what is your guess?

[slicklasers]

With it being an indoor stadium, I think that they will have some lasers... What do you all think???

[neutrino]

Lets hope so. I still don;t understand the rules of American Football. I watch it for the commercials and half time show. Oh and the beer of course.

Cheers
Rich

[slicklasers]

No lasers... ton of led screens..

[neutrino]

Yea it looked real sweet

[Shawnb]

32 barco projectors and image mapping that was the "GAG" this year

[DrEvil]

Madonna - Growing old without aging. lol The HT show wasn't too bad. It could've been better though. I'll watch the commercials online sometime. All I got over here was horrible AFN commercials. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you don't want to know.

[telmnstr]

I think there are some new moving heads that have really tight beams on them, that's what you saw running behind the stage. I ran across a press release somewhere about them, maybe 12 degrees or something.

As someone else pointed out the field projection. High End Systems (bought by Barco I think? and Cisco bought Barco?)
was big into that.

[Jem]

I think there are some new moving heads that have really tight beams on them...

Probably Clay Paky 'Sharpies', see here...

http://www.thomann.de/gb/clay_paky_s...oving_head.htm

They seem to be using these a fair bit on British TV at the moment.

[mixedgas]

Lasers for big stadiums have a downside. TV broadcast rules the game, either football, or soccer, from the game timing to half time, to what effects are used in the stadium.

The reason being the metal halide lighting can take a good six minutes to come back up to the color temperature and stability needed for broadcast. If not fitted with "Hot Restrike" the lamps can take 10 minutes to cool down before restart is possible. No producer will want to readjust the color balance and white balance on a matched set of broadcast grade cameras if he does not have to.

Few facilities, be they stadiums or car dealerships, are fitted with a means to kill the lighting.

I've gotten burned by this before. The Solution is to pack in enough tungsten lighting or moving fixtures with shutters to bring the field close to broadcast grade lighting. This is expensive.

This restart time is a eternity in the TV world, and is why you do not see lasers at more events. TV is far more important then half time.

The cost of adding hot restrike is less then 1% of the total lighting install cost. However it is just not thought of by the architectural lighting designers who do stadiums, as a significant issue. In other words its not on the lighting installation specifications.

Steve

[Shawnb]

im sure all the stadium light had the roller shutters on them there the MUSCO ones most arenas ive been in on tour are fitted with them also