VIENNA, Austria, July 22 /PRNewswire/ --

At the climax of the recent Euro 2008 tournament, thousands of football fans descended on Vienna for the final between Spain and Germany. UEFA had organised an official 'Fan Zone'. Featuring state-of-the-art Lighthouse LED screens supplied by one of the Europe's leading screen rental companies, Medien Werkzeuge GmbH to give ticketless supporters a chance to join in the football frenzy.

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The most fundamental necessary facilities for the Fan Zones are the LED screens which have to offer high contrast ratios and color reproduction, as well as clarity over long distances and in all climatic conditions.

"Although cost is an important factor when targeting this sort of business, clearly the quality of the screens we provide, the operating personnel and references from customers, all play a big part," says Christian Wymetal, managing director of Medien Werkzeuge. "We've invested in Lighthouse since starting the business in 2001," he explains. "Our unique selling point was to have all our big screens from just one supplier -- a reliable and reputable supplier -- providing the kind of good-value, top-quality LED screens that would help us get a good return on our investment. And that supplier is Lighthouse."

"So, at the official UEFA Fan Zone Vienna City all the LED screens were Lighthouse," Christian continues. "We supplied 10 LED screens with size of around 320 square meters, using a combination of R7-ER, R10, R12 and R19 panels, based on the size of the screen and the area it had to cover. The Fan Zone stretched along Ringstrasse, and the total area it covered was about 2,000 square meters." Medien Werkzeuge also provided a 10 square meters screen near the famous Ferris Wheel in Vienna, along with screens for three other cities in Austria, three locations in Germany and one site in Switzerland.

"Throughout the tournament, Lighthouse maintained a massive profile across Europe," says Lighthouse's sales director, Western and Central Europe. "Our screens were commissioned through a number of our European rental partners including AV-Control kft (Hungary), AVMS GmbH, Cassiopeia, CT Germany and Velten GmbH (Germany), Fantasy GmbH (Austria), Hulskamp and JVR (Netherlands), Screenco (UK), XL Video (Belgium) and VGC (Poland). The network provided a staggering 1,266 panels of R7-ER alone, which is proving to be the ideal product for such events.

"It's great that everyone can enjoy a big match together, even if they haven't managed to get a ticket," concludes Christian. "It is certainly safer, more comfortable and much more fun than trying to cram into a bar to watch a game on a flickering TV set."

Lighthouse Technologies Limited is a leading LED technology developer, manufacturer and global supplier of state-of-the-art LED modular video panels, which can be assembled into large scale video screens for indoor and outdoor use. It also produces a range of creative video solutions that have a multitude of applications.

Lighthouse operates on a global basis. It has sales offices and technical support teams in the United States, South America, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Greater China and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit http://www.lighthouse-tech.com .

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