Heated snooker slates in tourneys??

[r9ball]

While watching some of the big snooker tourneys online, I saw a digital readout at the foot end of the table. The LED was too small to read. Do some snooker tables have heated slates? Or does the LED have some other purpose?
Thanks

 

[Scaramouche]

Tournament tables are heated.
Usually the LED reads approximately 50 degrees Celsius.

http://www.prosnookerblog.com/2012/01/17/table-temperature/

the bed of the table is more like 21C

 

[GideonF]

Tournament tables are heated.
Usually the LED reads approximately 50 degrees Celsius.

http://www.prosnookerblog.com/2012/01/17/table-temperature/

the bed of the table is more like 21C

In the UK Championships now on, they mentioned that they had reduced the temperature to 40 degrees because the cushions were too bouncy.