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"Idol Mania" at Hollywood & Highland Center.


LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  -- 1BIGtv will broadcast the live simulcast of American Idol([R]) as the top 3 contestants perform and will provide interactive games on Tuesday, May 15th, 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m., at the bottom of the grand staircase, below the courtyard at the Center.

Danielle Goldey, Marketing Director for 1BIGtv, said, "Last week was a great success, so we are doing it again. The crowd loved watching American Idol on our 11 foot screen. They were really excited to play Guitar Hero II from Activision and Dance, Dance Revolution from Konami on Microsoft's Xbox 360 and most were shocked that it was FREE."

Hollywood and Highland The Hollywood & Highland Center is an entertainment, retail and hotel complex at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in the Hollywood district in Los Angeles. The 387,000 square foot (0 m)  Center is one of the hottest places in the area for shopping and entertainment. The Kodak Theatre, the Center's crown jewel Crown jewel

A particularly profitable or otherwise particularly valuable corporate unit or asset of a firm. Often used in risk arbitrage. The most desirable entities within a diversified corporation as measured by asset value, earning power, and business prospects; in takeover
, has hosted many amazing events including the Academy Awards([R]) Ceremonies and the American Idol([R]) finals. The Center's Director of Special Events and Entertainment, Dwayne Jones, had this to say about the 1BIGtv simulcast of American Idol([R]), "We are constantly looking for Looking for

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 innovative ways to make our Center the entertainment destination for locals and out of town visitors. For our guests, it was a fun and welcome surprise to see the 1BIGtv truck with its huge TV broadcasting American Idol([R]) live, at the same time local residents were viewing it in their homes."

1BIGtv is dedicated to Promoting the Coolest Products in Consumer Electronics[TM], using their 130" TV screen equipped truck. The customized trucks from 1BIGtv have almost every type of gadget that consumers would want; mobile HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates  satellite using the Winegard Roadtrip SDi and DirecTV service to high speed wireless internet from Verizon EVDO. The truck also has onboard a Hewlett Packard Pavilion PC that holds karaoke music. Petra Frey, one of the singers, said, "It was really cool to sing to a crowd on Hollywood Blvd. with this big TV screen behind me." Andrew Rojas, the lead tech from 1BIGtv says, "We get amazing volume and sound separation from using the Polk Surround Bar and matching subwoofer A speaker that reproduces the lower end of the audio spectrum. A subwoofer system may include a crossover circuit which switches frequencies at approximately 100Hz and under to the subwoofer, while passing the rest of the signal to the main speakers. , and the Sony STR STR
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synchronous transmitter receiver
 DA-500es amplifier receiver acts as our audio hub for the power and clarity that makes everything act clean and seamless."
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