Scoring Devices and Game Shows

 

Because the scoring devices and visual displays associated with game shows become ever more sophisticated there is little need these days to construct anything more than the desks or stands to put them in. The range of indicators installed in sports stadia, railway stations, airport lounges and so on ensures that almost any type of display can be obtained from specialist contractors.

The visual display unit

The VDU or television monitor is now a commonplace item and can be used to relay information from the control area to the contestants’ desks. Used as an indicator to be seen by the audience it can display scores fed to it from a computer or from a slave camera looking at some specially constructed game-board ...

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