How about converting the current billboards along side of our highways into projection screen video with audio through your am stations? The billboards would run on continuous loop and you could dial in to a local am station (similar to theme park information stations) that would be broadcast directly from the billboard site for each billboard. Also these could be satellite controlled where the operating company, let say “Singing Billboards R Us” could change the advertisement at a flick of a button. During the day it might be harder to see the video but a blind around the billboard would help this problem. Sound interesting? Kewl! … CYA
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Sounds good, but quite distracting, which is just what you want in a billboard, but may be too distracting for highway drivers.
That is true kP, but they are there now just in still form. I understand that some form of this is out west already. Also this could be in store or mall parking lots with the daily sale items, etc. ...
We don't have billboards in Vermont, and I can't even imagine what would happen if there were videoboards along the roads. Sorry, but it sounds like the entire wrong way to go, in terms of safety and peace of mind.
There already are large flat screen billboards in operation. I have seen them on Macy's store on 34th street in Manhattan and in portable units controlled and powered by a truck in Helsinki, so there is fairly wide distribution. They are clearly visible in daylight and in the night but I have not yet seen them on highways as they are, at the moment, probably too expensive for general distribution. Nevertheless, the price will surely go down. They may be useful for information about traffic inbetween ads.
Silicon Valley has quite a few video billboards, as does my hometown, Gulfport, MS. They are just huge full color video screens, and they really aren't that distracting except at night. But even then, they aren't so bad.
In the village where I live here in the Philippines, there are video billboards in every corner of the village gate. It's not that big though, but enough to catch the attention of drivers or passengers of the cars that passes by. It's turned on 24 hours. It doesn't have sounds/audio yet. Whoever is in charge of the video billboard doesn't really charge that much per advertisement. I think it would be a great idea to have video billboards along side highways especially if there's heavy traffic so that drivers won't get bored waiting for the other cars to move.