a guy told me that during the Giants game the screen is much larger and that it appeared to him that Cal had reduced the sice to have adds on both sides of the reduced screen. anyone know if this is true? Perhaps since there was no Tv, there was no 16x 9 pictures to show? it did seem small from the upper deck.

One positive is that I noticed no barking ads during the time outs. But then maybe I was not paying attention.

A simple google seach reveals the truth:

http://tinyurl.com/5ukdzgl

oskidunker;572294 said:

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a guy told me that during the Giants game the screen is much larger and that it appeared to him that Cal had reduced the sice to have adds on both sides of the reduced screen. anyone know if this is true?

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Yes, they had static ads on the screen. Maybe they figured nobody would notice since we're used to the tiny screen at Memorial.

Yes indeed, we Giants fans get the whole screen. And, next weekend, when they have Opera in the Park (free to opera lovers) we get [U]all[/U] of Turandot.

Is this just another ING "thing"? Further erosion of Cal game day experience--even in S.F.
with a world-class video board. Why do Cal fans get short-changed?

I am hoping that since there was no Tv, a square picture was necessary.From the third deck it wasn't much different from memorials replay screen. very hard to see.Just not Big enough. Someone who can speak to Sandy and get an Answer should ask her and let us know.

Without the ads, how else will we know to buy Mike & Ikes?

No doubt that the AD had to acquiesce to it's advertisement/sponsor agreements and get their respective logo/ad-placements in a high-profile location; since the fixed adds on the scoreboard structure are the Giant's, the Cal AD had to chop the JumboTron to accomodate. In a cruel twist of irony, the size of what it was reduced to, is the same size as what's at Memorial.

Tree Cutter;572795 said:

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No doubt that the AD had to acquiesce to it's advertisement/sponsor agreements and get their respective logo/ad-placements in a high-profile location; since the fixed adds on the scoreboard structure are the Giant's, the Cal AD had to chop the JumboTron to accomodate. In a cruel twist of irony, the size of what it was reduced to, is the same size as what's at Memorial.

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At least it had more than 50 working pixels.

oskidunker;572294 said:

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a guy told me that during the Giants game the screen is much larger and that it appeared to him that Cal had reduced the sice to have adds on both sides of the reduced screen. anyone know if this is true? Perhaps since there was no Tv, there was no 16x 9 pictures to show? it did seem small from the upper deck.

One positive is that I noticed no barking ads during the time outs. But then maybe I was not paying attention.

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I noticed that too when I got there. One of the things I liked about the park for the Miami game was the large high def screen. Guess we have high def ads