Green Hippo lights up the Ice in Riga
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The impressive Arena Riga has been home to the Kontinental Hockey League club Dinamo Riga since 2008, offering a 10,300 capacity when the ice is laid out. One of Latvia’s leading indoor venues – artists to have played concerts there include Ed Sheeran, Elton John, KISS, Metallica, and Tiesto – Arena Riga provided a superb backdrop and centrepiece for the show.
Pro 1 Stage, Green Hippo’s Latvian distributor, used and configured a Hippotizer Karst to drive five 1920 x 1080 feeds at 60Hz. Two of the Karst outputs, split with Datapath X4’s fed four Barco HDXW20 Flex projectors for the 360-degree projection surface. The third output was used to drive another feed to the Absen A7 LED and Barco Slite 10xp LED screen.
Andrejs Mefodovskis of Pro 1 Stage said: “The Green Hippo Hippotizer KARST V4 Media server is incredibly powerful, and this great event was the perfect example of its might. Three outputs were used, outputs one and two were configured to 3840x1080 at 60Hz that was split by Datapath x4 to 2x 1920x1080 60Hz by and output three was configured to serve resolution 1920x1080 60Hz.”
The result of this combination of leading technology and creative design was an event to perfectly cap-off Dinamo’s season. It was also a good example of how smart design and clever technology can add value to a sporting event, rewarding loyal fans with a show, as well as a match, to remember.
(Jim Evans)
