British Airways Digital Billboard - Amazing Technology!

[craigt3365]

[wprime]

It's cool but hardly amazing technology, it could have been done 20 years ago, except the cost of the screen itself would be very prohibitive.

[RabC]

It's cool but hardly amazing technology, it could have been done 20 years ago, except the cost of the screen itself would be very prohibitive.

Aren't you missing the whole point, its not the billboard its the fact that the animated figure follows a real aircraft across the skyline..............

[WhizBang]

It's cool but hardly amazing technology, it could have been done 20 years ago, except the cost of the screen itself would be very prohibitive.

Aren't you missing the whole point, its not the billboard its the fact that the animated figure follows a real aircraft across the skyline..............

Hardly all that amazing and not difficult to do with today's technology.

[craigt3365]

It's cool but hardly amazing technology, it could have been done 20 years ago, except the cost of the screen itself would be very prohibitive.

Aren't you missing the whole point, its not the billboard its the fact that the animated figure follows a real aircraft across the skyline..............

Hardly all that amazing and not difficult to do with today's technology.

Perhaps. But I've never seen anything like this before. Pretty cool.

[Tywais]

It's cool but hardly amazing technology, it could have been done 20 years ago, except the cost of the screen itself would be very prohibitive.

Aren't you missing the whole point, its not the billboard its the fact that the animated figure follows a real aircraft across the skyline..............

Hardly all that amazing and not difficult to do with today's technology.

If you aren't comfortable with the word amazing, how about impressive. I found it to be so and I work in high tech both hardware and software.