Diamond Vision (known as ''Aurora Vision'' in Japan) displays are large-scale video walls for indoor and outdoor sports venues and commercial applications, produced by the

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Corporation. Diamond Vision Systems is a division of Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. and is headquartered in

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, where certain products are designed and assembled for the North American market. Diamond Vision video screens incorporate technologies developed by

. For wide viewing angles, Diamond Vision screens utilize chip-type LEDs. Mitsubishi Electric also uses patented processing technology in Diamond Vision boards for imagery and color reproduction. Early Diamond Vision displays used Cathode-ray tube technology, similarly to Jumbotrons. Diamond Vision's awards include an

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and the Best in Sports Technology award from the Sports Business Journal–Sports Business Daily.Tripp Mickle and Ross Nethery
“Big night for Jones, NFL.”
Sports Business Journal. May 24, 2010. Retrieved 23 March 2013. In addition, Diamond Vision installations have been recognized five times by Guinness World Records. Diamond Vision Systems is the Official Large Outdoor Video Display Provider of the

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Historical milestones

Mitsubishi Electric began manufacturing and installing large-scale video screens in 1980, with the introduction of the first Diamond Vision board at

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in Los Angeles for the

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. Diamond Vision installed 3 screens at the

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in Philadelphia, and two in

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during

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. They would be used to show the live feed from Philadelphia to Wembley and Wembley to Philadelphia. In 2004, Diamond Vision Systems installed North America’s largest indoor high-definition (HD) screen, measuring 34 feet by 110 feet, at the Colosseum at

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. The following year, the Diamond Vision LED display at Turner Field (now

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) in Atlanta was recognized by ''

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'' as the world’s largest high-definition television screen. Diamond Vision was recognized by ''Guinness World Records'' in 2009, when two video boards measuring 72 feet by 160 feet at Cowboys Stadium (now

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) in

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were named the world’s largest 1080p high-definition video displays.Editorial staff
“Cowboys reveal world’s largest HD LED screen to the public.”
LEDs Magazine. June 15, 2009. Retrieved 24 March 2013. In 2012, Diamond Vision Systems won an

in the Pioneering Development of Large-Venue, Large-Screen Direct View Color Video Displays category. A Diamond Vision 25,610 square-foot high-resolution video display with a pixel density of 2,368 x 10,048 was installed in

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in 2014. In 2016, Diamond Vision HD screens replaced the main center video board and the auxiliary boards in right and left field at U.S. Cellular Field (now

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External links

Diamond Vision official webpage
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