A commercial jumbotron hangs in the center of the room and faces every direction. The crowd watches the game without craning toward a wall. We design it, engineer the rigging and hang it safely.
A commercial jumbotron is a suspended, multi-sided LED display hung in the center of a room. Every seat can see it, whichever way the chair faces.
It fixes the most common AV mistake in a bar or restaurant: screens lined around the exterior, with the crowd in the middle stuck watching sideways all game. Float one screen overhead and the whole room watches comfortably.
It's the same LED technology behind our video walls, built in a different shape: double-sided, four-sided or a carousel, hung where the sightlines work for the most seats. The hard part isn't the picture but putting a heavy display safely over people's heads and feeding every face the right game.
Rooms where everyone wants to watch the same thing at once.
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The fastest way to fix a room where half the crowd can't see is to stop adding TVs to the walls.
Walk into most sports bars and the TVs ring the exterior, which means anyone seated in the middle has to turn away from their table and their friends to watch. A center-hung jumbotron flips that. The screen floats over the room and faces outward on two or four sides. In essence, wherever someone sits a face of it is pointed at them. They watch the game and talk to the table at the same time.
We figure out where it hangs by mapping the sightlines first, the same way we design any wall: every seat, every standing zone, the bar, the booths. The jumbotron goes where the most seats get a clean view - at a height that clears traffic and reads from the back without dominating the room.
Hung safely
A jumbotron is a heavy display over people's heads. The rigging is the part that matters most.
Hanging a multi-sided LED display in the center of a room is a structural job before it's an AV one. We engineer the suspension to the actual building structure (not the drop ceiling), accounting for the full weight of the display and its rigging, with the safety factor an overhead public space demands. Where the structure needs reinforcement, that gets designed in before anything is ordered.
That engineering is exactly why this isn't a buy-it-and-hang-it product. A jumbotron mounted to the wrong point, or under-rated, is a safety risk over a crowded room. We treat the rigging, the mounting and the structural review as core to the install, with the documentation to back it.
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A jumbotron is LED video-wall technology in a hanging shape. The same engineering applies.
The display is fine-pitch LED, with the pixel pitch matched to how close the nearest seats are, so it looks sharp up close and reads clearly from the back. It's bright enough for a lively, well-lit room, and every face is fed by the same source system. The operator can put one game on all sides or a different game on each face from an iPad.
Everything that makes our LED walls last applies here too: panels from a single production batch, a revolving pool of matched spare modules kept on your behalf, and a dedicated network so the screen never drops because something else on the system changed. LED video walls covers the technology in depth.
Tell us about the space. We'll map the sightlines, check the structure overhead, and show you where a jumbotron hangs before you commit to a build.
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Working with Crunchy Tech was a fantastic experience from start to finish. They handled the sale and installation of all our sound and TV equipment at The County Bar in Aviston, IL, and absolutely nailed it. We were on a very tight deadline, and they not only met it—they delivered top-notch quality and service the entire way. Highly professional, responsive, and easy to work with. We couldn't be happier with the results.
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Being able to reuse the existing structure created a much lower cost for the client and they were ecstatic.
Crunchy has done an amazing job on our A/V install. The sound is perfectly balanced throughout our many zones and the entire system is super simple to use.
Just do it. Spend the money. It’s well worth it. It’s not worth your time, hassle, energy, and stress of trying to make it look right and do it right when there’s somebody who has been doing it for years and has perfected the craft.
You're a great partner with Florida Hospital and this project will make a difference in Children's Health.
Working with Crunchy Tech was a fantastic experience from start to finish. They handled the sale and installation of all our sound and TV equipment at The County Bar in Aviston, IL, and absolutely nailed it. We were on a very tight deadline, and they not only met it—they delivered top-notch quality and service the entire way. Highly professional, responsive, and easy to work with. We couldn't be happier with the results.
Crunchy's AV Services are outstanding. Staff members are experts, who really extend themselves to find the right technology for helping us reach our marketing goals in creative ways. The best thing about working with Crunchy is collaborating with the staff – they are patient, responsive, knowledgeable, and available.
Crunchy has been great to work with. They communicate well and deliver as promised.
The work Crunchy has been doing is a game changer for this industry.
Being able to reuse the existing structure created a much lower cost for the client and they were ecstatic.
Crunchy has done an amazing job on our A/V install. The sound is perfectly balanced throughout our many zones and the entire system is super simple to use.
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Read MoreA commercial jumbotron is a suspended, multi-sided LED display hung in the center of a room. People can see it from every direction, the same idea as the big screen over a stadium, just sized and built for a bar, restaurant or venue. Instead of lining TVs around the walls and leaving the middle of the room turned sideways, you float one screen overhead that faces two or four ways. Wherever someone sits, a face of it points at them. It's LED video-wall technology in a hanging shape. The engineering that matters most is hanging it safely over a crowd.
Yes, and it's one of the best moves for a room where everyone wants to watch the same game. We map the sightlines first: every seat, the bar, the booths, the standing zones. Then we float the jumbotron where the most seats get a clean view, at a height that clears traffic and still reads from the back. It pairs naturally with the rest of a sports bar AV system. The same source routing that drives your wall displays drives every face of the jumbotron. That means one game everywhere, or a different game on each side.
It is, when it's planned right, which is the real work behind this. A jumbotron is a structural project before it's an AV one: we check the suspension against the actual building structure, calculate the full weight of the display and its rigging, and build in the safety margin an overhead public space calls for. Where the structure needs reinforcement, that gets handled before anything is ordered, and the rigging is documented for safety and inspection. It takes permits, calculations and sign-off, the same as anything else hung over a crowd.
Neither. We're a design-build integrator, so we design and permanently install commercial jumbotrons for your venue, then support them. We don't do event rentals and we don't sell a screen as a box for someone else to hang, because the whole value is in placing it for your sightlines and rigging it safely to your structure. If you need a permanent jumbotron designed and installed right, that's us; if you're after a short-term rental for an event, that's a different kind of vendor.
It depends on the size, the pixel pitch (how close the nearest seats are), how many faces it has and the structural work to hang it safely. A compact two-sided screen and a large four-sided center-hung display live in different ranges, and the rigging and any structural reinforcement are real parts of the number. Rather than quote off a generic size, we map your room, confirm what the structure overhead can carry and scope the jumbotron to your space and budget with clear options.
Tell us about your vision and we'll put together a custom proposal.
