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Watching TV from miles away

Universal Hub: Now that’s a wide-screen TV. Looks like WGBH is going to get into the lit advertisement space with a VERY large (30'x45') outdoor display. Visions of 25' tall Ernies aside, it looks like you won’t actually be able to watch television on the display; it’ll show a different image each day.

That relieves me of having to make the obligatory hifi comment, but I’ll make it anyway: with every TV in the world moving to 16x9, why on earth would they deploy a 3x2 TV instead? I could almost understand 4x3, but 3x2 is just puzzling.

More info about the Jumbotron LED mural can be found on WGBH.com’s design pages for their new building.

Last updated Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 1:21:40 PM.

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