Lighthouse Emerges as King of Formula One

HONG KONG & SAN JOSE, Calif.--June 28, 2004--Lighthouse Technologies has emerged as the LED display provider of choice, with more installations than any other supplier at Formula One racetracks around the world.

"Just as Schumacher and Ferrari are leading the 2004 Grand Prix season, so Lighthouse is dominating the trackside, with more screens than ever before at circuits around the world," said Lighthouse Managing Director, Mark Chan.

Lighthouse screens have been relaying action to the crowds at Formula One from the first race of the season in Australia, where Clipsal Vision supplied a complete Lighthouse package for the Melbourne Grand Prix.

The LVP2056 screen's 20mm pixel pitch makes it ideal for the viewing distances of a trackside position and its 5600 Nits of brightness means that it can cope with the high levels of ambient light of the Grand Prix venues.

The 2004 Grand Prix of Bahrain was the first ever round of the FIA Formula One World Championship to be held in the Middle East and marked the official culmination of a multi-million dollar project started back in September 2002, when the Kingdom of Bahrain signed a long-term deal to host the event. French rental company Lumison supplied two Lighthouse LVP2056 LED screens - each 60m2 - positioned on and next to the circuits crown shaped tower.

At Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya, Spanish rental company Stereo Rent once again covered this spectacular event along with sub-contractors Lumison. 11 screens of differing sizes, one of them measuring an impressive 80m2, were placed at strategic curves around the circuit, and displayed spectacular images direct to the 108,300 spectators from a direct feed from TVE and Stereo Rent's own camera for live interviews with both drivers and members of the crowd.

Next in the season was Monaco, where Lumison was the main contractor with Stereo Rent providing additional screens. The historic street circuit in Monte Carlo has one 150 panel, two 4x4 panels and one 6 x5 panel LVP2056 screens. However, the piece de resistance was Lumison owner, Pierre Heyligan's new purchase of Lighthouse LVP1050 product for a VIP screen situated directly in front of Prince Rainier's Royal box. Control for all screens was via fibre optics from a dedicated cabin overlooking the swimming pool and harbour.

Says Chan: "We're extremely pleased and excited that there has been such an upsurge in the use of Lighthouse screens for this year's Grand Prix season. Lighthouse truly is the king of Formula One!"

More Lighthouse screens will be showing the action at Mangy-Cours in France and Monza in Italy.

Lighthouse Technologies Limited is a leading manufacturer and global supplier of state-of-the-art LED modular video panels, which can be assembled into huge video screens for indoor and outdoor use. Lighthouse Technologies operates worldwide, through sales offices and technical support teams in the United States, South America, Canada, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific and its products have won several international design awards.

The company's LED components, panels and complete video systems undergo stringent quality control at its ISO9000-certified manufacturing plants.

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