Mitsubishi Electric US Companies

News Release - For Immediate Release

Carolina Panthers Select Mitsubishi Electric to Replace
Scoreboards at Bank of America Stadium

 New Diamond Vision™ displays are three times the size of existing scoreboards

Warrendale, Penn. — Jan. 24, 2008 Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Vision Systems has been selected by the Carolina Panthers to install new video displays at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, NC. The Panthers are the latest National Football League team to select Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Vision™ for their stadium.

The new Diamond Vision™ AVL-ODQ10 LED displays are 31.5 feet tall and more than 76.6 feet wide, providing more than 2,414 feet of viewing area, more than triple the size of the existing displays.

 “Carolina Panthers fans are the best in the NFL, and they deserve a great experience when they come to the stadium,” said Jon Richardson, stadium president. “Though our existing Diamond Vision display still works perfectly, we feel its time to take the video boards to the next level. Mitsubishi Electric has been a great supplier, and we’re happy to continue our relationship.”

The new displays replace two Daktronics lamp matrix scoreboards and a 12-year-old, 24-feet x 32-feet Diamond Vision™ display, and will deliver bigger and sharper images thanks to 2,242,560 brilliant LEDs. The displays offer the most current technology, as well as the brightest, most colorful imaging available, along with spectacular viewing angles. They will be driven by the team’s PantherVision, which controls all of the video displays, message boards and television monitors at Bank of America Stadium as well as the stadium's public address and sound system.

About Diamond Vision
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; Time 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 current world’s largest LED video display, a 37’ x 218’, 8,000-square foot mammoth LED board at Tokyo Race Course.

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

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Contact:

Mark S. Scott

Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA, Inc.

714.220.6896

mark.scott@meus.mea.com