The Landers Center has been the entertainment heartbeat of the Mid-South since it opened in Southaven, Mississippi in 2000. Fifteen minutes from Memphis and home to the NBA G League's Memphis Hustle — the official affiliate of the Memphis Grizzlies — it's a 10,000-seat arena that hosts everything from pro basketball to major concerts, family shows, boxing, ice events, and the Mid-South Fair. A building that diverse, and that busy, demands a display system built to match.
After a decade-plus with the same centerpiece screen, Landers Center Executive Director Todd Mastry was ready to do something different. What we delivered was a full 4K LED display system: 530 Orion panels across 3.91mm and 4.81mm pixel pitches, spanning approximately 2,045 square feet and resolving to roughly 12.1 million pixels. Every panel runs on a Novastar A8s receiver card with Neutrik connectors, driven to 1,400 nits of brightness and a ≥3,840Hz refresh rate. The result is a screen built to perform at the level Landers Center operates — and then some.
"When looking to replace our 10-year-old screen, we knew we wanted to do something different," said Todd Mastry. "UberDisplays delivered that and then some. Their technology, warranty, delivery schedule and pricing were all above any of their competitors. We couldn't be happier with our 4K screen and UberDisplays."
A 10-year-old arena display doesn't fail all at once — it just keeps falling further behind. Resolution that looked impressive in 2012 doesn't hold up in a world of 4K content. Brightness that was adequate then struggles under the lighting demands of live TV. And a screen that's seen a decade of events starts to show it.
Landers Center wasn't looking for a like-for-like replacement. They wanted a genuine upgrade — something that would carry the building into the next decade and match what newer arenas were being built with. The goal was 4K: real 3,840 × 2,160 resolution at a scale that fills the Landers Center bowl and commands attention from every seat.
We built the system around the Orion 3.91mm platform: 490 curved panels at 500mm × 750mm and 500mm × 500mm, plus 40 flat 4.81mm panels for supplemental display zones. At 3.91mm pixel pitch, the main display delivers the pixel density to support true 4K content. At 1,400 nits, it holds brightness across the full range of event lighting the arena runs. The Novastar A8s signal processing chain handles the resolution and scaling demands that come with driving a display this size.
The Result: Landers Center went from a screen that had aged out to one of the largest 4K LED video boards in any arena in the United States — a display system sized and specced to serve the building for years to come.
An arena display doesn't hang flat. A centerhung scoreboard in a 10,000-seat facility needs to read correctly from seats at every angle — floor level, mid-bowl, upper level, endzone, corner — which means the cabinet geometry has to account for the viewing arc. Flat panels on a curved frame look wrong. The curve has to be built into the cabinet itself.
For the Orion 3.91mm panels, we engineered custom curved blocks with degrees specific to the geometry of the Landers Center display. These aren't field modifications — the curve is part of the die-cast aluminum cabinet design, specified at the manufacturing stage based on the exact configuration the display required. That means each panel arrives ready to lock into the curve precisely, without shimming or improvised angle correction in the field.
The result of building the curve in at the cabinet level — rather than approximating it at installation — is that the display maintains visual consistency across its entire surface. There's no subtle "flat-spotting" where sections of the screen that don't quite match the intended geometry fall slightly out of plane. Every panel sits where it's supposed to, and the display reads as one unified surface from every seat in the building.
The Result: A centerhung display that wraps correctly through the full curve of the Landers Center bowl — built to look sharp from the floor to the upper deck, and from corner to corner.
Landers Center doesn't specialize. In a given year, the building hosts NBA G League basketball, major national concert tours, family entertainment shows, boxing, ice events, the Mid-South Fair, and more. Each of those formats puts different demands on a display system — and a screen that's specced narrowly for sports and fails on concert night, or vice versa, isn't actually serving the venue.
The most critical spec for broadcast performance — particularly for NBA G League coverage — is refresh rate. Lower refresh rates produce visible flicker or rolling bands when captured on camera, a problem that becomes obvious on broadcast and gets worse as frame rates increase. The Orion panels run a refresh rate of ≥3,840Hz, which means the display appears completely stable under any broadcast camera configuration, regardless of shutter speed or frame rate. For the Memphis Hustle's G League coverage, that matters.
Brightness tells a different story for concerts and live events, where house lighting and stage wash lighting can work directly against a display. At 1,400 nits, the Landers Center display holds its own under demanding live event conditions — visible, vibrant, and impactful whether the house lights are up for intermission or down for the show.
The Result: A display system that does its job across the full range of what Landers Center runs — broadcast-quality for game night, stage-ready for the concert calendar, and built to perform for whatever the building books next.
~12.1 Million Pixels. 2,045 Square Feet. One of the Largest 4K Screens in U.S. Arena History.
"We couldn't be happier with our 4K screen and UberDisplays." — Todd Mastry, Executive Director, Landers Center
