Grandeur Pool Screen Replacement

[Defender1158]

The long awaited replacement of the poolside video screen on Grandeur of the Seas is now underway.  A team joined us yesterday in Port Canaveral who took down the old LED box system.  This morning a much larger team boarded at Miami to load numerous crates via a large crane.  Parts of decks 9 and 10 were closed off during the lift.  The attached photo shows scaffolding being erected for installation of the new screen.  While no announcements have been made as to when the screen will be ready, there is a team of about five technicians on board who appear to be the actual video installers.  It does look like this will be a new technology solution rather than just replacement of the LED box screen elements as they have removed all of the older mounting hardware.  The crates are marked "Daktronics", who are a U.S. based provider of large outdoor video displays.  Hopefully this will be a much brighter and sharper system.

/Greg

[Defender1158]

The new screen was put into service this morning, final sea day of the cruise.  It is the same basic technology as the old system, using LED elements with the same resolution, but the screen is far brighter than the original system even when it was new.  The new system also uses plug in panels rather than the clumsy box system of the old display.  I saw the technicians calibrating the system swap out the approximate 12 inch square panels in just a couple of minutes.  Hopefully that will support easier replacement over time and keep the system looking sharp.  Looking forward to sports and movies (I am staying aboard on a B2B).  

/Greg

[dodgestang]

Watching some of the facebook post it sounded like the end of the world to have this work taken place ;).

 

Glad to see it appears to have gone so smoothly

[SRF]

AWESOME

 

Unfortunately, it will be NEXT July before we get to see it.

[retiredgram]

Looking forward to seeing it in 4 months. Thanks for the update.