A significant part of AD's design for the stadium includes the 1,700 square feet mid level, all digital, production control suite for the stadium. Twelve hundred square feet of that space is dedicated to video production and engineering for the stadium's displays. The other five hundred square feet houses a video and graphics editing facility capable of High Definition production.

The primary room is highlighted by new SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) devices by Grass Valley Group allowing proactive monitoring through email, pager, cell phone and/or graphical user interface of all components in the system for device states and equipment condition and health. The system can contact the engineer to report anything that malfunctions from a fan or power supply dying, to a bad card or hard drive.

The room also boasts some fairly serious video server horsepower with a four-channel bi-directional video server for slow motion replay and commercial playback. This will allow four A/V inputs to be continuously recorded for the full game and four A/V outputs to be individually selected for variable playback on demand. Operators can choose which camera shots are desirable for any play and pull up slow motion replays, sending out two clips side by side or one after the other. Two of the four outputs will be reserved for commercial playback for the primary production switcher and the MATV production switcher. When the room is not in use, server output will be used to loop video to the parking lot and marquee LED video displays around the exterior of the stadium.

The primary video switcher is capable of VTR and server control, has built-in digital video effects for side-by-side and picture-in-picture layout effects and also has a 4 channel, 100 frame clip store (video/key) for animated logos and backgrounds. An outboard 4 channel digital video effects system supercharges the power of this production system by providing the advanced requirements necessary to handle eye popping transitions for the two stretched out 32:9 aspect ratio displays.

An independent MATV switcher allows for different programming on the MATV system than is shown in the bowl. The bowl programming is in 32:9 ratio on the LED displays while MATV programming is in 16:9 or letter boxed 4:3 ratio for stadium LCD monitors, plasma displays and televisions. Both video production switchers and the facilities router are tied together with an intuitive video tally system. Both system directors know what is hot on all systems at all times even if it is remotely routed.

The Eagles have invested $1.5 million dollars in Avid Symphony, DS-HD and Unity video editing, storage and server equipment which will be used for production of video and graphic material for live stadium productions as well as for coaches' shows and other Eagles television production needs. The two editing suites will be competitive with Philadelphia area editing facilities, and it is likely that the team will contract the facilities and staff for hire.