Gopack.com info on video boards, etc

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" RALEIGH – Weather-permitting, most of the finishing touches on the improvements and additions to Carter-Finley Stadium will be in place for Saturday’s sold-out football season-opener against Appalachian State. NC State assistant athletics director for outdoor facilities Ray Brincefield said Monday that the only thing that would prevent all new features in the stadium from being in place for the 6 p.m. contest might be possible delays caused by Tropical Storm Ernesto brewing south of Florida. “If the weather doesn’t mess us up, which we are praying won’t happen, we feel like we will be fully functional,” Brincefield said. But the substantial portion of the renovation, which entailed replacing the existing Finley Fieldhouse with grandstands that will complete the lower bowl of the stadium, is in place. There are some 7,000 new permanent seats in the stadium, giving the 40-year-old structure a capacity approaching 60,000. There is a new fieldhouse that includes lockerrooms for the visiting team, for the Wolfpack at halftime, game officials, cheerleaders, mascots, field crew and ball boys. There are also new training and equipment rooms, as well as a covered garage for game-day vehicles such as visiting team buses, game-officials transportation and two EMS vehicles. There will be two new digital video boards in the south end zone, so that patrons on the opposite end will be able to see everything that is on the larger video board in the north end zone. Those are being installed this week, but that work could be delayed if there is inclement weather, Brincefield said. The bulk of the work was done in the eight months since the Wolfpack last played at Carter-Finley, in last year’s regular-season victory over Maryland. That doesn’t mean everything is done, since the final completion date is slated for Oct. 5. There is a minor code interpretation that may prevent the north end zone windows facing the stadium from opening for the first game. The windows facing the RBC Center, however, will be open. Between now and the completion date, some temporary signage will be replaced by permanent versions of the same signs. The are still some lights to be installed on the existing light poles in the Curtis and Jacqueline Dail Plaza between Carter-Finley and the RBC Center. Each of the 300-level grandstands above the Red Zone will get permanent screens around the back. And both video boards will get back covers similar to the one on the back of the existing scoreboard in the north end zone. In addition, there are other new features besides the video boards, the grandstands and the plaza between Carter-Finley and the RBC Center. First, the school commissioned an acoustical study of the stadium, so that the state-of-the-art sound system can be reconfigured to suit every “nook and cranny” of the stadium, Brincefield said. “The sound survey we did before was done before the Murphy Center was build and before Vaughn Towers was built,” Brincefield said. “We have added some speakers and adjusted the angles so that everyone in the stadium should get virtually the same sound levels.” There were speakers added that will reach patrons in the 300-level seats of the north end zone, since most of the existing sound system goes right over the top of that area of the stadium, Brincefield said. Secondly, the permanent nets in both end zones that prevent kicked balls from going into the stands have been replaced by nets that can be raised and lowered during all extra points and field goals, preventing any obstructed views during the rest of the game. There is a new gate for students – Gate 11, in the north east corner of the stadium – that ups the number of possible student entrances to the stadium from three to four. Finally, all scoreboards have been switched from bulb lighting to digital read-outs. “It’s a much clearer, brighter image,” Brincefield said. “It’s a super upgrade fro the stadium, in my opinion. And all the numbers are in red, too.” "

8/28/2006 9:18:36 PM

gotta love all the numbers being in red

8/28/2006 9:22:28 PM

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"giving the 40-year-old structure a capacity approaching 60,000."

8/28/2006 10:33:29 PM

scam

8/28/2006 10:36:23 PM

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"Secondly, the permanent nets in both end zones that prevent kicked balls from going into the stands have been replaced by nets that can be raised and lowered during all extra points and field goals, preventing any obstructed views during the rest of the game. "

That's a good thing.

8/28/2006 10:44:17 PM

http://ncstate.rivals.com/feature.asp?SID=899&FeKey=13275







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8/30/2006 10:03:07 AM

^ NICE! Those screens are on point!

8/30/2006 10:09:54 AM

i think i heard (either in this thread or something on packpride) that the screens will eventually have an outlining/casing much like the main NEZ scoreboard

8/30/2006 10:21:35 AM

those damn screens are right above my season seats... lol

8/30/2006 10:53:49 AM

can't. wait. for. saturday.

8/30/2006 11:03:47 AM

nice, but they should have just built another really big one

8/30/2006 11:31:59 AM

eh, i disagree. two more screens add for more flexibility. also one big screen in the middle of the SEZ would mess up the view of the Murphy Center. two screens to the corners looks better. also how pimp is it to have more screens than the other schools in the ACC. BC has two, Duke one, UNC one, FSU one, Clemson i think used to have two before there new West Zone project was started, VT one, UMD one, WFU one, UM one, GT one, UVA one.

8/30/2006 12:17:03 PM

clemson had 1 in the west zone, then they put in a new one on the hill, then they demolished the old one, so now its 1

8/30/2006 12:19:47 PM

but i wonder how big they actually look from the nez...

8/30/2006 12:20:23 PM

^well, the screens were put there for people from the NEZ to see them, so I am sure this was considered

8/30/2006 12:22:33 PM

but whats their relative size compared to the just the screen on the jumbotron thing? whats the dimensions of these 20ft. screens to how big the scoreboard one is...

8/30/2006 1:53:41 PM

*preface this with the fact I'm waiting for some stuff at work*

found this:

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"The installation comprises a complete scoreboard system – 55ft high by 101ft wide – with an integrated 64-panel LVP25 (25mm pixel pitch) Lighthouse LED video screen as its centerpiece.The top of the scoreboard itself is 111ft high, and the structure has been designed to allow for the screen to be increased in size to a 16 x 9 aspect ratio at a later date."

64 panels, each 4ftx3ft, in 8x8 arangement puts our main board at 32ftx24ft.

8/30/2006 2:10:21 PM

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"those damn screens are right above my season seats... lol"

8/30/2006 2:11:56 PM

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"View of the video board on the West side of the South End Zone from the North End Zone."

8/30/2006 3:42:07 PM

^^ 213?

8/30/2006 3:49:47 PM

so much for HD

8/30/2006 4:36:49 PM

^^^that doesn't mean shit. you don't know how zoomed in the picture is. need something for reference

8/30/2006 5:14:24 PM

there are other pictures that show the frame for it that clearly give you a refrence for size

8/30/2006 5:42:38 PM

^^are you kidding me? you can see the back of one of the chairs

8/30/2006 5:52:41 PM

did anyone see in the Technician where they referred to the Jumbotron as a Megatron. i was like what it's now the leader of the Decepticons? i mean even if you can't remember the word for it at least call it a big screen.

8/30/2006 6:55:05 PM

lol

8/30/2006 6:59:31 PM

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"^^are you kidding me? you can see the back of one of the chairs"

didn't see that before. there is also apparently a trailer at the bottom of the picture

my bad dawg

8/30/2006 6:59:52 PM

folks working on the new screens are going to have to be out there all night tonight

8/31/2006 2:08:35 PM

^good luck with that, its gonna be pourin'

8/31/2006 2:10:27 PM

rain rain go away

8/31/2006 4:19:30 PM

The place looked simply awesome today. I was really impressed with the new plaza, and the atmosphere was great with the full bowl.

Here are my pictures from the game: http://www.jonathanhawkins.net/photos/thumbnails.php?album=138

9/2/2006 11:52:00 PM

Both of the new screens had squares that weren't working, but I guess they were on. The sound system was completely FUBAR before the game.

9/3/2006 12:03:21 AM

they should get the kinks out of the videoboards this week....i mean this past monday they were still in the boxes on the ground

9/3/2006 12:58:51 AM

haha i saw the square, i thought it was a speaker or something at first if i'm talking about the same thing

9/3/2006 1:01:46 AM

yeah both screens had their issues that i would imagine will be fixed by next week. i still love it. we have 3 freaking screens! i was in Section 7 for the game about row BB if i remember correctly. i look to my right and i've got the original jumbotron. i look a little off-center to my left and there's the one in the southwest corner. i look completely to my left and there's the one in the southeast corner. i thought they looked great. i keep looking over to the NEZ expecting to see the old fieldhouse, and what do i see a bunch of red that looks fairly steep. man if we just hadn't had that code to deal with perhaps we wouldn't have had to raise those permanent bleachers up four feet and could have had the middle section as well. gosh i love our stadium now, even moreso than before.

9/3/2006 10:25:24 AM

i thought it was awesome, but i just wish the endzones were painted red

9/3/2006 10:51:05 AM

anybody got pics from gameday?

9/4/2006 12:15:17 AM

scroll up

9/4/2006 12:48:02 AM

that one graphic that says "WOLFPACK FANS: NOISE" that blinks white really quickly will look so cool during late games.. it already made the whole stadium flash with one board.. think with 3 boards

9/4/2006 1:07:56 AM

i LOVE our stadium now.

9/5/2006 1:51:05 AM

9/20/2006 3:20:47 PM

nice red x

9/20/2006 3:25:10 PM

i personally think the screens are small. I sat in the new section at the akron game and had to turn around to the big jumbotron to see a replay.

9/20/2006 3:27:18 PM

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10/12/2006 9:54:47 AM

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" LOVE our stadium now."

me too....the fsu game was my first time there since they bowled in the n. endzone. i really like it.

10/12/2006 9:59:37 AM

Thats an awfully large screen.

Impossible.

I STILL THINK HAVING READ CLEAR PLASTIC OVER THE LIGHTS DURING HALFTIME AND BEFORE AND AFTER THE GAME IS THE BEST THING THEY COULD DO EVER!!

NOBODY HAS THAT

10/12/2006 9:59:56 AM

"read clear plastic"
..... outstanding

10/12/2006 10:10:14 AM

You know what I mean. It wouldnt be that simple and it would be awesome.

10/12/2006 10:27:16 AM

that would be horrid.




[Edited on October 12, 2006 at 10:35 AM. Reason : nm]

10/12/2006 10:32:48 AM

what a great picture...

10/12/2006 10:41:00 AM