NEW YORK — New York’s Times Square was illuminated by the world’s highest resolution video display screen of its size as the monitor — nearly as big as a football field — was switched on Tuesday evening. The first images broadcast from the enormous screen included a digital film featuring images of mountains, a bird, skyscrapers and bursts of color accompanying a musical soundtrack. The panel, located on the side of a hotel, is eight stories tall and intended for advertisements similar to those on dozens of other screens lining the bustling New York crossroads. Hundreds of tourists braved the frigid temperatures to see the screen come to life, snapping photos of the digital billboard that spans 

the length of a city block. But as “the highest resolution LED video display in the world of this size,” it will produce “deep, rich black levels and unsurpassed vertical viewing angles,” said Clear Channel Spectacolor, which sells advertising for the space. — AFP