Jimmy Buffett Performs on 'World's Largest' Mobile HD LED Screen
By Tom LeBlanc
Integrator accommodates last-minute request, using barge to display the 33-foot screen for beachfront audience.

Jimmy Buffett is a big act.

His sister, Lucy Buffett, owner of famed LuLu’s at HomePort Marina Restaurant on Alabama’s Gulf shore, is a big custom electronics client.

So when LuLu’s wants a Jimmy Buffett concert simulcast on a big screen, the integrator had better find the biggest screen available.

That was the task at hand for Fairhope, Ala.-based BSUN Media Systems when it set out to display the simulcast of a Jimmy Buffett charity concert benefiting victims of the BP oil spill.



BSUN, which had installed about 80 Episode speakers, 16 zones of Crestron automation and 10 Zektor-switchable HDTVs at LuLu’s, was asked to quickly procure the “largest JumboTron” available, says owner Brad Sundberg.

Sundberg called Argyle, Texas-based GoVision, which was able to deliver GoBigger, what it calls “the world’s largest mobile high-definition LED screen,” within a few days. BSUN and GoVision technicians floated the 19-foot by 33-foot unit on a barge just off the dock near LuLu’s.

Jimmy Buffett in Concert
In essence, Jimmy Buffett and his Coral Reefer Band performed two concerts for which BSUN Media Systems oversaw the simulcast on large LED screens at LuLu’s at HomePort Marina Restaurant on Alabama’s Gulf shore. Buffett was set to perform a charity concert to benefit BP oil spill victims that LuLu’s, which is owned by his sister, would simulcast.

Barge
A 53-foot trailer sitting on a barge served as the mount for the 19-foot by 33-foot LED screen, which GoVision describes as the “worlds’s largest mobile high-definition LED screen,” adding that the screen features Daktronics HD-16 LED video technology.

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