The World’s Largest HDTV

They’ve always said everything is bigger and better in Texas and for once they’re right. The Dallas Cowboys unveiled the design of their new stadium in Irving, TX last week with great fanfare and a pretty awesome website. Designed by HSK Architects the new stadium in Arlington, Texas when completed will be the largest domed structure in the world, will hold +80,000 fans in it’s normal “football” configuration with a capacity of over +100,000 people for other events, and will also have over 200 luxury suites. The dome will also be retractable and when in the open configuration will mimic the roof opening at Texas Stadium, the current home of the Cowboys.

However the biggest “new” feature is a High Definition Video Board which will be the largest in the world. Coming in at 50 feet tall, 60 yards long (from the 20 to the 20) and weighing over 600 tons it will be the largest suspended video display system ever installed. As Cowboy’s owner Jerry Jones said in Peter King’s Monday Morning Quarterback column:

“Almost no matter where you sit in the stadium you’ll be able to see the color of the players’ eyes. Your brain won’t know what to watch — the action on the field, or the game on the scoreboard.”

I only have two questions:

1) Where can I plug in the Xbox 360? Can you imagine Madden NFL 07 (Xbox 360)‘ or “Call of Duty 3 X360” projected at that size?!?!? Imagine the sound system too!
2) When will Washington Redskins Owner Dan Snyder start getting a case of the “I wants”… as in “I want a new stadium, bigger than Jerrry’s.”