Date: April 2007
LIGHTHOUSE SCREENS AT HONG KONG SEVENS
Hong Kong – 27th April, 2007 – The premier and longest standing Sevens meeting of the rugby calendar, the famous Cathay Pacific/Credit Suisse Hong Kong Sevens, took place at Hong Kong Stadium from 30 March to 1 April 2007 where the mighty Samoan team beat island rivals Fuji by 27-22. For the third year in succession, Lighthouse Technologies was the official LED screen supplier for the event, providing its class-leading R16i/o-II 16mm LED screens in both the North Stand of Hong Kong Stadium itself and the official Sevens Village.
The Hong Kong stadium featured a 7 x 7 panels (7.11m width x 5.33m height) R16i/o-II screen; whilst 7 x 6 panels (7.11m width x 4.57m height) of R16i/o-II was positioned in the Sevens Village, an area sited at the India Recreation Club in Happy Valley, adjacent to the main stadium. The Sevens Village was the complimentary venue for the crowds to relax, purchase official merchandise, watch the live rugby and where fans who were unable to obtain tickets to the main ground gather to enjoy the actions. Both screens used the Lighthouse LIP-KX for video display control.
The sponsoring for the Sevens Village was originally, and continues to be, facilitated by the UK company Show Time Media, which provides content for the Village screen. Keen for the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union (HKRFU) to make the most of the opportunity the Sevens Village presented to them for added entertainment, they approached Lighthouse to provide a definitive solution to their display requirements.
“The first year Lighthouse screens appeared was at the launch of the Sevens Village, introduced for the World Cup in 2005,” explained Show Time Media’s Scott Taylor, Commercial Director. “We were looking for a screen partner. As Lighthouse Technologies is known to us as a manufacturer of high-end LED screens, and also has its head office in Hong Kong, it is the perfect fit. We approached Mark Chan, Lighthouse’s managing director, who immediately saw the benefits of the alliance.”
“We were very pleased to have the opportunity to be part of such a prestigious sports event,” added Mark Chan. “And our R16i/o-II screen is perfect for this type of application as it’s capable of displaying high quality images even in direct sunlight, which is essential here.”
The screen in the stadium, a more recent addition as seen for the first time at last year’s Hong Kong Sevens 30th Anniversary and following the success of the Village screen, was primarily used for content from the main sponsors, crowd shots and live rugby. The screen in the Sevens Village, which was in use from 7am to 11pm, hosts live-feed from the entire tournament in the stadium, as well as highlights from other matches and clips from BBC comedy sketches during the day and Universal Music videos in the evening, when a party atmosphere took over from the day’s sporting focus.
The HKRFU promoted the Sevens Village through the Hong Kong Tourism Board and local press as an additional free venue for fans during its first year. Its popularity has grown to such an extent in the intervening years that it is now a must-have, integral part of the Sevens event.
“The giant LED screens in the Sevens Village and in the Stadium have quickly become an intrinsic part of the Sevens experience both inside and outside of the ground,” said Warrick Dent, Sevens and Commercial Manager of the HKRFU. “The screens supplied by Lighthouse are state of the art, and this is combined with a first-class service. We are very pleased with the partnership we have formed,” Dent continued.
“The team at Lighthouse are great people to work with and have a fantastic product,” concluded Taylor. “We immediately struck up a great relationship with them which we are sure will continue for many years to come.”
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About Lighthouse Technologies
Lighthouse Technologies Limited is a leading LED technology developer, manufacturer and global supplier of state-of-the-art LED modular video panels, which can be assembled into large scale video screens for indoor and outdoor use. Specializing in the research and manufacture of LED video screens, Lighthouse has its own intellectual properties with more than 10 active patents worldwide and is committed to remain as the premier creator of intellectual property value.
The company’s LED components, panels and complete video systems undergo stringent quality control with power-on, burn-in processes at ISO 14001 and ISO 9001-certified manufacturing plants. Its products have won several international awards, among them, the IBC Exhibition Design Award 2005, the Best-In-Show Award at InfoComm 2005, the Best New Product Award at the National Association of Broadcasters 2002 (NAB) show and the Good Buzz award at InfoComm 2004, the Technological Achievement Certificate of Merit in the 2003 Hong Kong Awards for Industry as well as the prestigious Consumer Product Design Award and the HKITCC Certificate of Merit in Technological Achievement in the 1999 Hong Kong Awards for Industry. Lighthouse was also recognized as one of the Fastest Growing Technology Companies in the 2002 Deloitte Technology Fast 250.
Lighthouse operates worldwide, through sales offices and technical support teams in the United States, Canada, South America, United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.lighthouse-tech.com.
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