Fox Theatre Marquee

[Dbest]

Anybody else hate the old nasty scoreboards at Wrigley Field or Fenway Park too? I cant believe they didn't replace those with some awesome LED screens that can be controlled by computers. Who needs anything antiquated anymore? Tear that shit out and stuff some technology in it!

[Wesley Mouch]

Anybody else hate the old nasty scoreboards at Wrigley Field or Fenway Park too? I cant believe they didn't replace those with some awesome LED screens that can be controlled by computers. Who needs anything antiquated anymore? Tear that shit out and stuff some technology in it!

IMO, the problem with digital readerboards [[or scoreboard) isn't with the technology itself. Look at the Apollo photos. Digital can be tasteful and historically appropriate.

However digital does enable bad design. Sometimes simplicity is best. The Fenway scoreboard is simplicity. Crucial, slow-changing information shouldn't be changed and moved around constantly. Digital enables bad choices.

The technology itself isn't the problem. It is that the marketers get control of the machine -- and they push aside the simple delivery of information done so well by Fenway's wall. It gets replaced with ads for Fidelity Investments.

[1953]

Keep it classy, keep it old school.

Hey, hey, ho, ho, LED has got to go.