Sands China Ltd. Entertainment has partnered with Solotech to deliver a large-scale LED installation at The Venetian Macao (China) built entirely from ROE Visual’s Topaz 2.6 panels. Covering 500 square meters (5381sqft) more than 2,000 LED panels and over 70 million pixels, the display was created for the return of the NBA China Games, as Roe has claimed in a statement.

The return of NBA China Games represents a major milestone. With the league absent from China for nearly six years, the 2025 return carries significant symbolic and commercial importance—not only for the NBA, but also for its partners working to reintroduce professional basketball to this market.

The goal of the project was to create an LED display suspended above the basketball court that could deliver both functional and visually stunning content — including live game stats, player profiles, instant replays, sponsor content, and immersive show visuals. But for Sands China, the investment extends beyond a single event—they needed a solution they could permanently own, redeploy, and reconfigure across their portfolio of venues and special events.

Sands China entrusted Solotech as the supplier for The Venetian Macao, who provided the equipment and project-management logistics for it.

Solution

During the evaluation process, Sands China and Solotech traveled to ROE Visual’s headquarters in Shenzhen to tour the demo space and manufacturing facility, where they saw Topaz firsthand.

ROE Visual’s Topaz 2.6 was originally engineered for the AV rental market. Its platform is designed to provide visual performance, modular freedom, and long-term dependability. With its curving and modular flexibility, it enables designers to move beyond traditional flat LED walls and build dynamic, custom configurations tailored to each installation.

Scope of work and challenges

The original scope called for a conventional jumbotron-style display, focused primarily on exterior-facing screens for the audience. However, following creative direction and discussions from the NBA Legends Celebrity Game in 2024, Sands China Entertainment Department Management expanded the concept to a dual-surface configuration with both interior- and exterior-facing LED screens — increasing the total display area by nearly 60%.

This setup looks forward to ensuring that audiences from every vantage point — courtside, sideline, and upper tiers — can experience clear, dynamic visuals.

Solotech and ROE Visual adapted, navigating technical and logistical challenges, to deliver the expanded solution without compromising quality, timeline, or performance. ROE forethought to stock LEDs from the initial binning, which guaranteed a perfect color match for the expanded second order. From initial PO placement to production, the turnaround was just three months with scope expansion only allowing one month, after which Solotech and Sands China immediately transitioned into installation to meet the demanding event schedule.

“ROE and Solotech really pulled out all the stops on delivery, even as our scope expanded late in the project. Their factory position and onsite support gave us the assurance and backing we needed for the NBA’s return—both to Sands China Properties and to China”, explains Cormac Veale, Technical Director at Sands China.

In addition to the tight production timeline, the team had to overcome technical challenges. Designing a dual-surface LED structure that met NBA-regulated height requirements demanded both engineering creativity and precision. Although the interior and exterior displays were hung on independent truss systems, custom corner solutions had to be fabricated to support the precise, parallel geometry. Equally critical was the development of a detailed load-distribution strategy that could safely support both LED surfaces while preserving the required 12-meter clearance above the court.

These solutions were installed exclusively for the two NBA China Games held on October 10 and 12, 2025, and were engineered collaboratively by Project Lead Technical Director Cormac Veale, Technical Engineering Craig Burridge, and Technical Head of Video Neal Watkins.

“Working with ROE on the project management side has always been consistently professional and highly responsive. Their communication was the linchpin in delivering an on-time and on-budget solution”, adds  Bob Barbagallo, Senior Vice President Intl Business Development at Solotech.

“Solotech has been an incredible partner for many years”, comncludes Jane Liu, Account Manager at ROE Visual. “It’s a proud moment for ROE to see Topaz at The Venetian Macao and for it to be used in such a unique design”.