BARCO Delivers Four of the World’s Highest Resolution Displays for World Championship Ice Hockey Games 2002.
This year’s Ice Hockey World Championships, which are held in Gothenburg Sweden, will feature four giant state-of-the-art Barco ILite 6 displays. Renowned for its absolute image quality, Barco’s ILite 6 is the highest resolution daylight display available for sports applications today.
Belgium, May 2002.Recognized as a world-leading developer and manufacturer of daylight display systems, Barco Events, a part of BarcoProjection, once again sees its award winning ILite 6 daylight display product grace another world-class event. Already popular in the events and rental & staging industries as well as on the international automotive show circuit, BARCO will now also provide 28 square meters of its daylight display product, via its Swedish rental partner AV Teknik, to the World Championship Ice Hockey Games held in Gothenburg, Sweden, from 26 April to 11 May 2002.
Swedish BARCO rental partner AV Teknik, with headquarters in Gothenburg owns over 75 square meters of BARCO’s daylight display products, hiring it to many of the top corporations in Scandinavia. Says Mr Roberth Fredriksson, CEO of AV Teknik: “Product integrity and reliability are of the utmost importance in the rental and staging industry. We have relied on BARCO’s products for numerous high-profile events over the past few years and have never been let down. Again for this prestigious event we will be able to deliver the customer with a Barco ILite 6 display, which is renowned for its quality and reliability and which will help make the championships a visual feast.”
Adds Steve Scorse, Division Manager, Barco Events: “The Barco Ilite 6 displays will provide outstanding close-ups and high-resolution video during the championships. The fans will be blown away by the true-to-life images they see on this state-of-the-art technology, no matter where they are standing in the arena.”
Barco ILite
The Barco ILite indoor display technology combines high brightness with high resolution in a slim, modular package. The intelligent LED-based display solution offers new standards in the video and graphics world. The ILite is uniquely suited for high ambient light environments that also demand high resolution and minimal installation depth. The system offers extremely wide viewing angles, and does not suffer from color-match uniformity problems. Four versions are currently available: ILite 3, ILite 6, ILite 8 and ILite 10.
Barco Events
Barco Events, part of BarcoProjection, specializes in developing customized visualization solutions for the rental & staging and events markets. Recognized for its dedication to product research and development, Barco Events continually strives to provide clients with unparalleled product and system integrity, delivering tailor-made solutions that answer the specific needs of its markets. With state-of-the-art daylight display and projection product ranges, Barco Events has become the preferred solution provider to many of the world’s leading rental & staging companies.
BARCO Background
BARCO, with headquarters in Kortrijk, Belgium, has three key activities which are all active in Image Processing. BarcoProjection is in various markets of large screen visualization. BarcoView develops and manufactures display systems for life critical applications, while BarcoVision is in systems for visual inspection and quality control. In 2001, the entire BARCO group delivered a revenue of Euro 792 million. BARCO has a network of subsidiaries, distributors and agents in 97 countries throughout the world. BARCO has been quoted on the Brussels Bourse since 1986, and is now quoted on Brussels/Euronext. BARCO is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company and is a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes.
