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3/26/2008
New York Yankees Choose Mitsubishi Electric

Installation continues 25-year tradition in the Bronx

WARRENDALE, Penn., -March 26, 2008 - The New York Yankees have selected Mitsubishi Electric Diamond VisionTM to provide the main center field high-definition video-scoreboard display for the new Yankee Stadium, scheduled to open for the 2009 season.

This installation continues the long-standing relationship between the New York Yankees and Mitsubishi Electric, which in 1983 installed one of the first Diamond VisionTM video displays in Major League Baseball. The Yankees organization felt the exceptional performance of Diamond VisionTM over the past 25 years and Mitsubishi Electric’s proven experience with large-scale, true high-definition LED displays merited continuing the Mitsubishi Electric tradition in the new stadium.

Mitsubishi Electric is the leader in supplying true high-definition large scale video displays and the Yankees’ new scoreboard will be the first true high-def LED display in Major League Baseball using Mitsubishi Electric’s high-density Diamond VisionTM AVL-ODQ8 LED product. Mitsubishi Electric’s unique Q-Series display will provide Yankees fans with stunning HD imagery and allow for the display of up to four simultaneous 1080 HD images.

“The Yankees are thrilled to have a Diamond Vision scoreboard in the new Yankee Stadium,” said Lon Trost, the Yankees chief operating officer. “We’ve had Diamond Vision displays for nearly 25 years, and are excited about opening the new ballpark with the latest technology available.”

The Diamond VisionTM scoreboard has 8,601,600 LED lamps and is nearly 101 feet wide and 59 feet tall, producing 5,925 square-feet of brilliant high-definition display area. It will be flanked by matrix signage supplied by Daktronics, Inc.

About Diamond VisionTM
Mitsubishi Electric, the Official Large Outdoor Video Display Provider of the PGA TOUR, was the first company to introduce large-scale video display boards for the 1980 Major League Baseball All-Star game at Dodger Stadium. Since then, Mitsubishi Electric has been recognized as the leader in visually stunning displays for sports facilities, advertising, entertainment and communications.

Recent record-setting installations include baseball’s largest high-definition display at Turner Field in Atlanta; the first 32:9 ration HD scoreboard at AT&T Park in San Francisco; Times Square’s first HD display at MTV studios; traffic-stopping marquees at Bally’s and Caesars Palace in Las Vegas; a massive 11-screen display at Times Square in New York City; and the largest indoor HD screen in North America, the 34- x 110-foot screen at the Colosseum in Las Vegas. Mitsubishi Electric also created and installed the world’s largest LED video display, a 37’ x 218’, 8,000-square foot LED board at Tokyo Race Course.

Diamond VisionTM Systems’ US operations are headquartered in Warrendale, Pa. Diamond VisionTM is a division of Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation of Japan. For more information about Diamond VisionTM, visit http://www.diamond-vision.com.

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Contact: Mark S. Scott
Mitsubishi Electric US
714.220.6896
mark.scott@meus.mea.com

About the Mitsubishi Electric Diamond VisionTM Scoreboard at Yankee Stadium

Width: 100.79’
Height: 58.79’
Total LEDs: 8,601,600
Pixel-Pitch: AVL-ODQ8 with 8mm dot pitch
Video Source: 1080 HD
Resolution: 1080 x 1920, plus an additional lower row of 48 pixels for messaging
Installation Start Date: Summer 2008
Installation Completion Date: March 2009