Sports Stadiums & Arenas

A screen that vanishes at kickoff

Indoor brightness outdoors is unreadable in the hours matches are played.

An afternoon fixture puts direct sun across the stands and onto the screen. A display specified at indoor brightness simply disappears — not dimmed, genuinely unreadable — for the part of the day when most matches are played. It is the single most common and most expensive specification error in outdoor sport.

Scan lines and flicker on broadcast

Low refresh looks fine in the stand and broken on television.

Cameras sample the screen faster than the eye does. If the refresh rate is too low, the broadcast picks up rolling dark bands across the screen and the perimeter boards strobe, which makes the footage unusable and puts your sponsors' inventory on television looking broken. The screen can look perfectly fine in the stadium and still fail on camera.

Monsoon, dust and what they do to a joint

Front-only sealing lets driven rain corrode the connectors behind.

Nepal's monsoon drives water horizontally, and the dry season fills everything with dust. A cabinet rated only on the front, or sealed with a gasket that has not been specified for UV, will admit moisture at the joints within a season or two. Corrosion at the connectors is what kills outdoor screens here, not the diodes.

Player safety and impact at pitch level

Rigid boards at the touchline are an injury and a liability problem.

Perimeter boards sit exactly where players collide with them at speed. A rigid board with hard edges is a genuine injury risk and a liability question, and one impact can take out a run of cabinets in the middle of a broadcast fixture.

7,000–10,000 nits, with automatic dimming

Saturated in afternoon sun, dimmed automatically after dark.

Enough output to stay saturated in direct afternoon sun, paired with an ambient light sensor that pulls brightness down as the light drops. That second part matters as much as the first: running an outdoor screen at full output after dark wastes power and produces glare that annoys the crowd and blows out the broadcast exposure.

3,840 Hz refresh and 15-bit grayscale

It films cleanly — which is what makes perimeter boards sellable.

High refresh eliminates the scan lines and flicker a camera would otherwise pick up, so the screen films cleanly at normal shutter speeds and slow-motion replay still holds together. This is what makes perimeter boards a sellable broadcast asset rather than just something the crowd can see.

IP65 front and rear

Sealed on both faces and drained for driven rain.

Sealed on both faces, not just the visible one, with UV-stable gaskets and drainage designed for driven rain. That is the specification that survives a Kathmandu monsoon rather than merely surviving a factory water test.

Soft-mask perimeter with front access

Absorbs impact, and swaps from the pitch side between fixtures.

Impact-absorbing masks and a raked profile reduce injury risk at the touchline, and front-serviceable cabinets mean a damaged module is replaced from the pitch side between fixtures without dismantling the run or working from behind the boards.

Etihad Stadium (Man City)

England

446 m² UsportX perimeter.

BayArena (Leverkusen)

Germany

403 m² UsportX perimeter.

Aker Stadium

Norway

233 m² UsportX perimeter.