Screens and projectors
Stadium ribbon and scoreboard
Ribbon boards and scoreboards: the last row, dust, sun and maintenance without closing the season.

The room is not a hall
A stadium ribbon is read from tens of metres, often in sun or dust. The pitch can be coarser than a conference screen. Resistance to heat, water and dust matters more. A scoreboard is match operations, not facade decoration. BoxTech O2mea coordinates its position with the published bowl seats. It does not invent brightness or pitch.
The last row is the judge, not midfield where the photographer stands. Under a deep roof the ribbon may vanish in shade or reflect in glass. In the open, a western sun can blind the opposite side at sunset. Check that at kick-off time, not only at noon.
Final figures come from the drawing, the current manufacturer datasheet and a test of the room. This page is a design method, not a performance certificate and not a price.
Structure and maintenance
The board is a load on the structure. A structural engineer signs the hanging point and the wind if it is outdoors. Seats under it are checked so maintenance does not happen over people’s heads. Access is drawn: a catwalk, a lift, or a module that opens forward. A football season cannot close a stand for a week to swap one cabinet.
Match content is not sponsorship content. A scoreboard needs low delay from the match system. A sponsor ribbon can wait. Mixing both paths in one processor without a test produces a number that arrives after the goal. The clause names the signal source and who operates it.
Coordination sequence
The screen is locked with the seat, not after it. The nearest used seat sets the fineness asked of the datasheet. The furthest seat sets the size of the content. House light that remains decides whether a brightness quoted in darkness is usable.
The service side is drawn: behind the wall or from the hall. Heat behind the modules may enter the next room. A projector beam is checked against eye height so the last row’s head does not cut the image.
We do not publish lumens or pixel pitch as an office number. The figure is copied from a dated datasheet after measurement. A screen does not replace acoustic isolation or reverberation treatment.
This clause goes into the bill of quantities, with the signatory and the date of the test after installation: Last-row distance, and sun angle at the time of use.
This clause goes into the bill of quantities, with the signatory and the date of the test after installation: A structural signature on load and wind.
This clause goes into the bill of quantities, with the signatory and the date of the test after installation: A maintenance path that does not cross the audience during the event.
Mistakes that repeat
- Copying a conference pitch onto an open bowl.
- Approving a night photograph, then handing over a ground that plays in the afternoon.
Questions about this type
Does the Abdullah bin Khalifa photograph mean you built its screen?
No. The photograph is a published seating reference from the factory archive of that ground. We use it to explain how a bowl sits in a room. We do not claim the screen or the structure.
Catalogue seats coordinated with this type
The seats shown are catalogue families in their own photographs, chosen with this type on the drawing, not from a separate picture.
- Fine-pitch indoor LEDHow indoor pixel pitch and brightness are chosen with the seat sightline, without an invented figure.
- Hall laser projectorThrow, noise, the booth and the sightline. No invented lumen figure.
- Cinema and short-throwPublic cinema and a home room differ in throw, isolation and pitch, not in cloth colour.


