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> I could build them one for a few hundred No, you couldn’t. It has to keep working for years/decades, be maintainable, survive bad weather conditions, etc.
by remote_phone 6y ago
> I could build them one for a few hundred
No, you couldn’t.
It has to keep working for years/decades, be maintainable, survive bad weather conditions, etc. even if you made the scoreboard out of wood and painted it, it would have to be large enough so that the stadium could see, the paint would fade and it would take weeks to make it, etc.
- dan-robertson 6y agoSo rebuild it every time as necessary. It will take a long time to eat into $1MM
- xirbeosbwo1234 6y agoYou're right, I couldn't. But I could buy one off the shelf for $25k! That's how much scoreboards cost if you want to show the score, not play full-color video. LED panels are cheap if you only need to show text. It's keeping up with the Joneses that's expensive.