Barco LED Displays Chosen for European Football Championships 2004

Kuurne, Belgium – March 19, 2003 - Barco announced today that it has won an order for 96 square meters of its SLite 10 LED product to be installed at the brand new Estadio das Antas Stadium in Porto, Portugal. The stadium, which has a seating capacity of 50 000, has been chosen to host the European Football Championships in 2004. The opening game of the championships will be played in the stadium on June 12, 2004.

Commenting on the project win, Marco Bruines, Division Manager, Barco Media said: “Barco’s LED display solutions have long been regarded as the reference in the rental & staging and major events industries. Reliant Park in Houston was our first major win in the sports market. Winning the installation of Stadia das Antas confirms the fact that we are fast becoming the preferred solution provider for LED displays at brand new stadiums on both sides of the Atlantic.”

The Barco displays, which will be installed at the stadium during the summer of 2003, take on a unique configuration never before seen in Europe. The 96 square meters SLite 10 will be divided into two screens of 48 square meters each positioned on either side of the field. The screens will be installed on columns that enable them to be rotated to face either the field or the highway that bypasses the stadium. When not in use during matches, the column-mounted displays will be turned toward bypassing traffic where advertisers will use it to display larger-than-life advertising messages.

Adds Hilde De Swerdt, International Marketing Manager, Barco Media: “We are very proud of the SLite product range. We have taken the renowned Barco DLite LED module as foundation to develop a new product line geared specifically at the needs of the sports market, and as such the new SLite range, which comes in both 10 and 14 millimeter resolution, has caused quite a stir in the industry. With the system and picture integrity of a Dlite (DLite) LED module, yet the dimensions, resolution and pricing of the SLite, this new range offers a unique solution for just such installations as the Stadia das Antas.”

About Barco
Barco, an international company headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, is active in three key areas of imaging technology. Barco designs and develops solutions for large screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection. Barco has a network of subsidiaries, distributors and agents in almost 100 countries. Barco is quoted on Brussels/Euronext, is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company, and is a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes.

For more information, please contact

Inge Govaerts
Public Relations Manager
Barco - Media & Entertainment

Telephone +32 56 36 8052
inge.govaerts@barco.com