tvONE delivers images to DraftKings Sportsbook's large-format video wall

The great video wall of more than 600 square meters, located in the stadium, home of the Chicago Cubs baseball team, It has the CORIOmaster2 processor tvONE to produce a combined video resolution of 16,320×1.560.

The new bar DraftKings Sportsbook from the stadium Wrigley Field Chicago has a large screen 609 square meters, showing game images and betting information. These are delivered by a video processor tvONE CORIOmaster2, which has been integrated by its partner McCann. This large-format LED video wall surrounds the space and is visible from practically any seat.

DraftKings Sportsbook is a restaurant, bar and sports betting facility, connected to historic Wrigley Field, baseball team headquarters Chicago Cubs.

Realizing that the large Led screen would require the display of many video sources and would have several preset layouts, specialists in immersive digital environments McCann Systems specified tvONE's CORIOmaster2 video processor, which is designed to generate “more pixels than you will need” with its high bandwidth CORIO2 processing.

“The processing power of the tvONE CORIOmaster2 allowed us to produce a combined video resolution of 16,320×1.560 to cover the entire Led video wall”, explains Al Ragone, McCann Senior Field Applications Engineer. “We are using five processor outputs that produce 4K resolution, that powers the main Led wall. We are also using the unit's internal window processing to create up to 48 unique windows that can be displayed on the video wall in 24 different designs and formats”.

The huge Led screen can show up to 24 sporting events at once or provide a single wide image for an immersive experience.

Considered by developer Marquee Development as “the first sports betting house of its kind”, the place of 5.181,6 square meters has capacity for more than 670 people with a “first-class entertainment experience for sports fans in Illinois”.

CORIOgraphed content consists of 12 unique DirecTV broadcasts, two CableTV broadcasts, four AppleTV streaming media players, six live streams of betting odds provided by DraftKings, a streaming media player for the new DraftKings Network and a pre-broadcast video stream from the home of the Chicago Cubs.

DraftKings staff operate images on a day-to-day basis. McCann provided extensive training to explain the capabilities and features of the entire AV system, which also features state-of-the-art four-zone directional sound.

“The flexibility and capabilities of the tvONE CORIOmaster2 are extremely impressive”, says Wilson. "To feed 48 Single windows of content requires an enormous amount of processing power. The amount of designs we were able to create was impressive., which led to them being made available to the customer 24 different designs. Depending on the number of live events taking place that day, the location of the guests in the space or the importance of a live event, The Led video wall can be configured to create any type of visual experience”.