The Fremont Street Experience LED canopy in downtown Las Vegas is to get a facelift, upgrading its current brightness from 700cd/m², meaning the display can be operated—and visible—continuously rather than just at night time. The project is expected to cost around $33 million, with investments from the city and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
Analyst Comment
I’ve been watching this display since the days when it was incandescent bulbs! In the 1990s, I was staying in the 4 Queens Hotel (pictured) during Comdex, and writing about power-saving monitors. Looking out of my window highlighted to me the strangeness of all this effort to make monitors use less power when Downtown Las Vegas looked like daylight! (BR)
