Kinnick video/ribbon scoreboard progression

IOWA CITY — The video board/sound upgrades will be up and running for Iowa's home football schedule this fall. The financing package the board approved for that Kinnick project totals $8 million, but they expect the total cost of everything will be $9 million because of the increase in bids on a portion of the project.

The existing video walls, control room equipment and sound system at Kinnick are eight years old, UI officials told The Gazette.

The company handling the project is Daktronics, Inc. As per usual, the Iowa athletics department will foot this bill using no tax or tuition cash.

The project includes a large screen video display system within the existing south end zone structure, video displays in the northeast and northwest end zone corners and a ribbon display to be installed above the seating along the north side of Kinnick Stadium.

That ribbon display will show game information, video, scores and advertising. In addition to those four video displays, the purchase request also includes two game clocks and four play clocks.

Gazette photographer Brian Ray caught the images above on Monday.

The South End Zone video board:

• Overall Dimensions

31'6.4? Tall x 122'8.8? Wide

• 15mm HD Video Display

624 lines of resolution x

2448 columns of resolution

• Optional 13mm HD Video Display

728 lines of resolution x

2856 columns of resolution

The Ribbon-style scoreboard info:

• Ribbon Dimensions

8'8.8? Tall x 236'4.8? Wide

• 13HD Video Display

196 lines of resolution x

10,062 columns of resolution

• Side Video Dimensions

21'11.2? Tall x 38'8.8? Wide

• 13HD Video Display @2

504 lines of resolution x

896 columns of resolution

• Vomitory Display Dimensions

3'7? Tall x 13'2? Wide

• 13HD Display @2

84 lines of resolution x

308 columns of resolution

• Delay of Game Clock @2

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