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KEY CONSIDERATIONS FOR YOUR NEXT VIDEO WALL PROJECT Understanding the technological building blocks required for a project will help deliver a seamless video wall integration and deployment experience.

Video walls come in all shapes and sizes, each with varying capabilities for showcasing different types of content in different arrays and configurations. With so many video wall tools available to AV professionals, here are some of the key considerations to help you with your next video wall project.

The Video Wall Foundation: Graphics Cards As more and more organizations are opting to dedicate their available on-site physical space to digital technologies, ambitious video wall projects are gaining momentum.

The latest advancements in multidisplay technology have allowed AV professionals and installers to go larger—both in resolution and the number of supported displays—than in years past.

Multi-display graphics technologies that support ultra-high-resolution formats offer a perfect video wall foundation. Matrox D-Series quadmonitor graphics cards, for example, power up to four synchronized 4Kp60 displays from a single graphics board while delivering smooth video playback and remarkable graphics performance. Four of these cards can also be “framelocked” to drive up to 16 synchronized 4K displays to output a pixel-perfect canvas.

Go Big(ger) Some video wall scenarios call for high-density output configurations to drive many screens or monitors. To achieve this result, you want to look for video wall technologies that pair or “bundle” well with complementary graphics or multi-display platforms to facilitate large-scale configurations. The Matrox QuadHead2Go multi-monitor controller is a great example of a video wall “expander” technology. Pairing with the aforementioned D-Series cards, a QuadHead2Go appliance can connect to a single D-Series 4K output to drive four Full HD displays. A setup that includes four D-Series cards and 16 QuadHead2Go appliances connected to each graphics output equates to an astonishing 64 Full HD display configuration.

As an OEM, system integrator, or AV installer, it is also important to consider maintaining video quality as you grow your video walls. QuadHead2Go appliances maintain signal quality throughout the video wall ecosystem by supporting resolutions up to 4Kp60 and 8Kx8K. Go Artistic The typical video wall configuration is the classic rectangular array. This format is the most common type of video wall as it is the most straightforward to mount and the easiest to create video for from a content design perspective. However,

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innovations are available to provide an easy way to rotate your displays.

QuadHead2Go is a versatile solution that supports both rectangular and artistic configurations. The artistic approach is an interesting video wall option for digital signage-based installations, especially as businesses and retailers reopen full-time. QuadHead2Go provides an efficient approach for capturing sources that can then be outputted across multiple portrait- or landscape-oriented displays, creating artistic or mosaic-style configurations. These artistic layouts also allow content creators to flex their creative muscles, as they can build content that takes both the monitor orientation and the spacing into account.

Parting Thoughts No video wall project will be the same, so all stakeholders should define the requirements, the deployment approach, and the maintenance strategy for a given project from the onset. Once established—and armed with the right technological building blocks—this should ensure a seamless video wall integration and deployment experience.

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echnology and media giant AT&T has built a new downtown Dallas destination venue known as the AT&T Discovery District. The four-block development, “where tech, culture and entertainment combine to create unique experiences,” includes a network of indoor and outdoor digital display and lighting assets that can be synchronized to create multi-sensory experiences.

SNA Displays was selected to provide more than 12,000 square feet of digital canvas for the massive development. In total, SNA Displays manufactured, supplied, and installed more than a dozen LED video displays and 100 million pixels for the city’s new landmark destination.

Global design and architecture firm Gensler provided design, architectural, and project management services for all aspects and phases of the project. Gensler worked closely with AT&T to carefully curate and manage a diverse and world-class lineup of digital artists to produce unique content featured across all LED video displays, in addition to designing and producing various content capsules themselves.

High-end LED display technology was installed in three key locations within The District: The Plaza at AT&T Discovery District, the AT&T Experience Store, and the AT&T Headquarters Lobby. All displays are part of a digital network of seamlessly integrated media elements that enable immersive takeover moments of lighting, audio, and creative video content, made possible by an intricate content and platform management system engineered and implemented by Moment Factory.

The focal point of The Plaza is The Media Wall at AT&T Discovery

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District, a massive 104-foot-tall, 8,700-square-foot exterior LED screen from SNA Displays that wraps around the high-rise at the corner of Akard and Jackson streets. The LED spectacular was built from SNA Displays’ EMPIRE Exterior line of display products and features a 6.67 mm pixel pitch, meaning the screen includes more than 18 million pixels. SNA Displays supported the AT&T team during city planning meetings and helped with technical details during the permitting process. The Media Wall, which is mounted on the building façade just above the entrance to the AT&T Experience Store, is 84′ wide and curves around the building with an extremely tight 5’4″ radius, allowing the screen’s breathtaking video content to flow around the building smoothly and seamlessly. The Media Wall features a resolution sufficient for two 4K displays stacked on top of each other with room for additional content. With an overall resolution of 4,752 pixels high by 3,840 pixels wide, The Media Wall is one of the largest displays of its pixel pitch in the United States.

SNA Displays also coordinated with YESCO and Barnett Sign to install the media wall and deliver a screen that brings digital art and media to life.

There were no pre-existing data/video communication devices, cables, or conduits running from established audio video electronic equipment rooms, so new video processors, switching gear, fiber, data and control cabling, and conduits were installed. As with many other large-scale displays, the big portrait subframe construction includes front access for serviceability.

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hristie Spyder X80 multi-windowing processors are helping to deliver a new fan experience at the Phoenix Suns Arena.

As part of a massive renovation of the entire arena, the new lobby area has been outfitted with 7,000 square feet of LED displays, with the Spyder X80 driving content to engage and educate fans as they enter the building.

The 29-year old venue underwent a significant $230 million modernization with improvements that allow the Suns to claim a world-class guest experience. The transformation included upgraded fan amenities, technolog, and more. Stranger Production, which specializes in sports and broadcasting video processing, and automation, commissioned the Christie Spyder X80 processors that are used to drive content to the LED walls in the new lobby area.

Two custom, curved LED displays welcome fans to the arena inside the reimagined Phoenix Suns Arena pavilion. One display measures 26 feet high by 202 feet long and the other 26 feet high by 113 feet long, and display a combined 64.8 million pixels. Two Christie Spyder X80 processors (one used as the primary processor, and the other

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as part of a back-up system) were installed to deliver content to the displays.

Says Eric Howell, owner, Stranger Production, “The system is designed so that the Spyder X80 is the central processor of the pavilion LED displays. Video is fed from computers to the media processors, into the Spyder. The display is completely customizable, including advertising, video feeds, and pre-game content, and different types of media and content can be layered using the Spyder.” Additionally, content can be synchronized on the displays throughout the arena.

The system is using 12 of the 16 outputs available on the Spyder X80 and all 20 inputs. Says Howell, “We’re using a lot of pixels – 64.8 million pixels are managed by the Spyder - and there’s still room for one more display.”

“We have a history in commissioning Christie Spyder for large-scale sports and arena installations,” adds Howell. “And for me, it comes down to shear horsepower with 24 inputs and 16, 4K outputs. And with the Spyder, we are able to get multiple technologies converted to the same display type.”

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afanelli and Nahas, the owners of the new commercial office building at 11th & Idaho in downtown Boise, ID, had a vision in mind when designing the 5000-square foot lobby. They knew they wanted something that would differentiate their lobby and make their space stand out in the downtown area. The answer was a video wall to be used as a revolving art installation celebrating majestic nature scenes from around Idaho by local video artists.

Located directly adjacent to Boise’s newest city park, 11th & Idaho features incredible views from its rooftop deck all the way down to its dramatic 18-foot high windows in the lobby. One of the key features of the building’s lobby is the expansive 8 feet x 15 feet Direct View LED (dvLED) wall from Sharp NEC Display Solutions (NEC LED-FE015i2 1.5mm).

Prior to construction, Rafanelli and Nahas searched to find an architect that would provide a thoughtful, elegant design for its downtown Boise commercial office building to bring an urban feel like one would find in San Francisco or London. The award-winning team at Perkins + Will delivered a design to attract and support the next generation of professionals in downtown Boise.

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The leaders at Rafanelli and Nahas looked to Neurilink, a leading Northwest-based audio visual integrator, to bring their technology vision to reality.

The dvLED wall provides several desirable characteristics that make this technology an ideal fit for the space. They are reliable, energy-efficient, very bright and deliver pristine color accuracy with better refresh rates than other technology on the market; dvLEDs are particularly well suited for providing eye-catching content for digital signage applications in almost any environment, either indoor or outdoor. This made dvLED technology ideal for a lobby that is flooded with natural light from the 18-foot tall windows. Not only that, dvLED technology from NEC allows for unique screen configurations that have no visible gridlines or seams.

Rafanelli and Nahas wanted this display to be awe-inspiring for visitors to the building and those walking on the busy sidewalk downtown. The video wall serves as bridge between the clean lines and elegant design of the building and the rugged, picturesque beauty that defines Idaho.

“This wall is more than a video display, it is a work of art,” said Scott Schoenherr, Partner at Rafanelli and Nahas Management Corporation.

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POLITICAL AMBITION After a complete renovation of its headquarters in Washington, D.C., the National Governors Association (NGA) now offers staff and visitors comfortable, modern workspaces that include a dozen new LG digital signage displays and nearly 100 LG UltraWide computer monitors for messaging and remote collaboration.

“After 12 years without upgrades, the existing conference room technologies had fallen so far behind that they were only used rarely, if at all,” said Andy Bukowski, AV design expert for CTSI, the integration firm responsible for upgrading the NGA’s networking, data and audiovisual systems. “Now the NGA headquarters allows visiting governors and their staffs to continue the hard work of governing their states while visiting the nation’s capital.”

The redesigned conference rooms enable plug-and-play setup for conference calls or presentations on LG 4K from the wire Ultra HD displays ranging from 55 to For more case studies, visit 98 inches diagonal, with most offersvconline.com/the-wire.

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ing BYOD including HDMI connections and Airmedia wireless casting. With the ability to display custom interactive content as well as PC feeds or cable TV, an 86-inch LG touchscreen display in the lobby can display custom interactive content as well as PC feeds or cable TV and previews the technology inside. The Visiting Governors’ Office features a 49-inch LG 4K display with simple laptop and tablet connections. A 55-inch LG 4K model mounted on a rolling cart enables any space to host presentations or videoconferences.

With 90 employees, the NGA makes use of two conference rooms with 75-inch LG 4K displays and two more with LG 55-inch 4K displays. In the largest, most popular space, the Capitol View Conference Room, the city’s grandeur is complemented by a 98-inch LG 4K display. All of the displays feature LG’s advanced IPS panels, which are also used in the office’s new LG 34-inch UltraWide desktop monitors.

“The NGA employees expressed a desire for dual-monitor workstations,” Bukowski

explained. “By using LG’s UltraWide 32:9 aspect ratio monitors instead of dual-monitor setups, we were able to deliver the larger digital canvas they needed while simplifying system design and connections, resulting in cleaner appearance and smoother operation.”

Perhaps the most unique aspect of the NGA’s new technology infrastructure is CTSI’s Subscription Service that allows the NGA to request replacement technologies as new displays or features are introduced in the coming years through a monthly subscription.

“Our clientele includes some of the most powerful people in the country, so it’s paramount that the technologies and spaces we offer them work flawlessly and deliver fast, simple means to get their work done,” said Shantia Puckett, the NGA’s associate director of information technology. “During the presidential inauguration in January there were a number of governors using our offices and conference rooms, and when they needed to launch a Zoom meeting, we were ready.”

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MOBILE XR Walmart relied on the disguise extended reality (xR) workflow to host two of its most important corporate meetings virtually for the first time earlier this year.

The company needed to address a global audience of investors in its annual Investor Community Meeting (ICM), as well as key management personnel in its Year Beginning Meeting (YBM), remotely. Partnering with experiential event company LEO Events, Walmart invited Xite Labs, a long-time disguise creative and workflow partner, to deliver a custom-built stage powered by disguise xR at Walmart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, to host the two virtual events.

Xite Labs Creative Director Greg Russell and his team spent one month from the wire pre-programming, testing cameras, For more case studies, visit AR functionality and pixel mapping svconline.com/the-wire.

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content at Xite Labs’ office in Los Angeles, ahead of their trip to Arkansas. Once on site, they were able to build the xR stage from the ground up in just one week, ready for the three days of shooting.

“We anticipated some last-minute changes, so we had parameters in disguise for all the 3D text elements, which allowed us to change the values of the text quickly,” explains Russell. “All the AR content updates were done remotely through the disguise interface. This enabled Xite to work flexibly and handle last minute script changes.”

Walmart executives embraced xR production. They were able to get a sense of their environment and position on stage, including the appearance of AR graphics, while keeping the audience engaged by interacting with AR elements.

“This represented a pretty significant step up for Walmart in the virtual space, and now they are interested in doing more,” explains Russell. “The president of Walmart’s phone lit up with positive responses to the approach, appearance, as well as the overall polish of the presentation experience.”

Editorial was performed on-site for each of the shoot days, eliminating the burden of clean-up and rendering. The only live components of the two meetings were Q&As that ran at the end of each event when Walmart President and CEO Doug McMillon responded to callers seen on the screen.

In addition to supporting mobile XR, in June, disguise reopened its original upgraded XR stage in Los Angeles; the company opened an XR stage in London in August 2020 and in Hong Kong in April.

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ART AND COMMERCE The headquarters of Plaza Coral Gables features a nearly 26-foot-long, 26-foot-high Planar DirectLight X LED Video Wall System installed by integrator Pro Sound & Video. Not only is it a dramatic visual feature and building amenity, the outsized display also serves as a community wall that displays curated digital artwork from local artists.

Mixed-use development Plaza Coral Gables is being built across three city blocks in Coral Gables, FL. The development includes two office towers, a 17-story luxury apartment building, a 242-room Loews Hotel, 35 low-rise lofts/apartments and 162,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and entertainment space.

The North Office Tower, completed in late 2020, has become the headquarters for Agave Ponce. The building fronts Ponce de Leon, a major thoroughfare from the wire of Coral Gables, and the two-story For more case studies, visit ground floor lobby functions as a svconline.com/the-wire.

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de facto introduction to the entire Plaza Coral Gables development.

As a defining feature of the North Tower—and the project as a whole—a nearly 26-foot-long, 26-foot-high Planar DirectLight X LED Video Wall System with a 1.8mm pixel pitch (DLX1.8) in a 13x23 configuration was integrated in the lobby space with custom Draper mount solution.

Installed by audiovisual integrator Pro Sound & Video, the Planar DirectLight X LED video wall is positioned approximately 8 feet off the ground and extends nearly all the way to the lobby ceiling, 35 feet from the floor.

According to Chad Christensen, technology manager at Agave Ponce, the video wall provides a compelling tool for generating excitement in the lobby and driving occupancy in the North Tower. “We use it to welcome new and prospective tenants to the building,” Christensen said. “It lets them know that we understand how important it is to incorporate the

latest technology in a Class A office building.”

Further, Coral Gables is known for its art scene and rich cultural history. “Art and culture are ingrained into the city’s process, and it was important for us to contribute to that,” Christensen said. “We anticipate partnering with the city and hosting a lot of events. Our goal is for the LED display to serve as a community wall for featuring different forms of artwork and supporting local artists.”

Agave Ponce engaged Miami-based Blackdove, a curator of digital art, to provide collections of video artwork that are displayed on the LED video wall. Agave Ponce also features content and imagery unique to Mexico. “Our company is part of the Jose Cuervo family, and we have lots of beautiful scenery of agave fields and the countryside that we showcase on the video wall. It’s been a great tool and we’re still discovering all of the different capabilities that it offers.”

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Leidos brings a visual culture to new headquarters

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Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, 20 miles west of Washington D.C., Leidos is an American defense, aviation, and biomedical research company and a global leader in the integration and application of information technology, science, and engineering to solve some of the most demanding challenges. In 2020, Leidos consolidated its Reston operations from two sites into a new, 17-story ground-up building, also in Reston, that serves as the company’s new global headquarters.

To reflect its core identity and innovative leadership in the new workplace, Leidos engaged architectural firm Gensler to design a space that embeds Leidos’ standout brand into the architecture.

“The Leidos headquarters was an opportunity to create a beacon to showcase who they are,” said Gensler Associate and Designer Carol Schneider. “With technology at the forefront, the new headquarters is a vessel to promote their culture, and solve the hardest, most important problems to come.”

s companies return to offices, or move into new offices, or new cities, it’s an opportunity to embrace visual communication through video and display technology. That might mean bold imagery in a lobby, or signage throughout common areas, or high-end conferencing screens.

After 18 months of improvising at home, the pull of the office must carry a sense of place to overcome the inertia—it’s the digital out of home experience, this time for work. AV can not only provide hybrid flexibility and convenience, it can also communicate ambience and culture. Here’s one example.

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Upon entering the lobby, visitors are greeted by a striking kaleidoscope created by Artist Davis McCarty that hangs overhead — a symbolic nod to the Leidos name and a visual rep-

resentation of its workplace planning strategy, which uses symmetrical irregular shapes to bring order and beauty to a rectilinear building.

The design captures Leidos’ five brand values

— visionary, smart, approachable, authentic, and pragmatic — and gives each an architectural identity.

The 276,000-square-foot space was created in the style of a vertical campus with a series of two-story community hubs designed with slab openings to provide visual connection from floor to floor.

Leidos dedicated 17,000 square feet to amenity space to help them attract and retain talent. The new Leidos headquarters leans heavily on technology and includes an impressive array of visual display technologies from Planar.

According to Schneider, it was important to Leidos that state-of-the-art technology was featured in the new headquarters and used in different ways. “First and foremost, Leidos is a technology company, and they wanted that evident throughout the building,” she said.

During design planning, Gensler’s design team toured several installations in New York City to understand the different types of video wall technologies being used and to make the best selections for the new headquarters.

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grations was to provide a functional way of delivering Leidos’ product and information through large format capacities in the multi-purpose room and boardroom, and to use technology in collaboration areas to atmospherically enhance the staff’s experience,” Schneider said. “For proper viewing, sharpness and pixel count were important.

So was a bezel-free content field on the largescale screens so content stood out the best it could.”

John McKinney, Gensler principal and design director, said the display technologies allow Leidos to focus on their “smart” brand value. “The technology creates an ambient backdrop, infusing color, shapes and inspirational quotes,” he said. “One example is the larger-than-life digital totems that fill the pre-function area. Rotating ambient shapes and quotes create slowly, constantly moving content to activate the space. The entire headquarters is a seamless, user-friendly technology experience.”

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trol setup and automatic brightness adjustment. They can screen share via Miracast and WiDi, carry 3.6GB of flash storage and an onboard CM for scheduling and playback. The bundle also includes training by live human, three-year warranty (five-year optional) and three years of after-the-sale support including ConnctedCare Solution software subscription, included health checks, and optional remote monitoring.

This new Matrox PowerWall software feature simplifies video wall designs with the company’s Matrox QuadHead2Go multi-monitor controller product line. With Global View, the upgraded PowerWall software provides system integrators and AV professionals with an intuitive interface to intelligently manage multiple QuadHead2Go devices within a video wall ecosystem. The ability to configure multiple QuadHead2Go devices simultaneously facilitates rapid deployment of large-scale rectangular and artistic video walls for a wide range of mission-critical and digital signage applications. PowerWall software now features a simpler, more intuitive approach over its predecessor by offering access and visibility to all QuadHead2Go appliances and cards on a single canvas.

Global View mode enables users to quickly manage QuadHead2Go devices and their connected monitors to test, simulate, and visualize and pixel- and bezel-accurate video wall configurations before deployment.

LG DIRECT VIEW LED ULTIMATE BUSINESS DISPLAY

LG has created this DVLED display solution pre-configured in various sizes with fixed resolutions ranging from Full HD up to 8K Ultra HD. The bundle ships with all the components for both indoor and outdoor display options, including an LG intelligent controller.

The LG Ultimate Business Display comes in 25 size configurations from 81 inches to as large as 589 inches (49 feet) and aspect ratios in both 16:9 and 32:9 ultra-stretch formats. The entire system ships in custom-designed, wheeled ATA flight cases so that everything arrives securely with no need for forklifts or pallet jacks to bring the display inside. Included are the LG Direct View LED panels; 4K LG controller; 5% spare modules; spare boards and parts; and service tool (mounting brackets are separate).

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SONY CRYSTAL LED C- AND B-SERIES MICROLED

In January Sony unveiled its latest innovation in premium direct view LED – the modular Crystal LED C-series (ZRD-C12A/C15A) with high contrast, and the B-series (ZRD-B12A/B15A) with high brightness. Both new displays are available in two pixel pitch sizes (P1.26mm and P1.58mm) to suit high-impact installation such as corporate showrooms, lobbies, and productions where it’s vital to accurately showcase content as the creator intended.

Both series are equipped with the “X1 for Crystal LED”, high-performance image quality processor. It fully incorporates the LED control technology developed for Sony’s Crystal LED and the signal processing technology in Sony’s BRAVIA TV series. Additionally, the displays enable image accuracy inspired by Sony’s long legacy with reference monitors, providing highly realistic large-scale imagery that maintains image integrity close-up and at a distance.

Sony’s proprietary Reality Creation supports high res upscaling, and Motionflow prevents motion blur. Proprietary 22bit Super Bit Mapping manages gradation; other features of the new displays include a wide viewing angle and wide color gamut, as well as a various input signals, including HDR, HFR (120fps) and 3D. For installation ease, each display is comprised of modular, seamless and bezel-free tiles that can scale to accommodate a range of sizes, layouts and resolutions. Due to the display’s lightweight and streamlined design, it can be installed in various configurations including wallmounted or in a curved arrangement.

The Crystal LED C-series provides high contrast of 1,000,000:1. This series features a deep black coating optimized for a range of high impact installations.

The Crystal LED B-series offers high brightness (1,800 cd/m2 ) ideal for bright environments and large display applications. This series has an anti-reflection coating with a matte finish that is especially ideal for creators, designers and production applications including virtual sets and studio backdrops. B-series was developed in collaboration with Sony Pictures Entertainment to reflect the creator’s needs. Both monitors are fanless and feature a 100-240V AC power supply.

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In June, Planar launched these premium fine pitch LED video wall displays that offer always-on, high performance, high resolution display experiences at the finest pixel pitches from 0.6 to 0.9 millimeters for mission-critical and refined applications from control rooms to corporate lobbies, ideal for both close viewing and high-color, highbrightness applications. Planar DirectLight Ultra Series features models with MicroLEDs, off-board power supply, proprietary alignment technology and the Planar WallDirector Video Controller (VC) with its corresponding video wall management software.

The series’ patent-pending selfadjusting module alignment technology also maintains perfect pixel alignment over time, combating issues such as vibration and thermal expansion. Plus, Planar DirectLight Ultra Series LED displays implement technology that reduces light blockage and

ambient light reflection, resulting in better blacks, higher dynamic range and enhanced dark content performance.

The Planar DirectLight Ultra Series also includes Planar Remote Power Supply, allowing customers to relocate heat, depth, noise, weight, service points and electrical outlets away from the video wall and into a rack room. With the built-in video wall processing via the off-board controller and corresponding software, users can capture multiple 4K sources and arrange content windows while securely controlling and monitoring the video wall via user interface or leading room management systems.

The launch also introduces Planar DirectLight Ultra Complete, a line of pre-packaged LED video wall displays (in 108-inch, 136-inch and 163-inch diagonal 4K resolution and 217-inch diagonal 8K resolution display sizes) that arrive complete with LED display cabinets, cables, spare modules, wall mounts as well as a video controller, remote power supply and remote control. Front installation and installed depth of less than four inches increase flexibility.

Compliant with the United States’ Trade Agreements Act, Planar DirectLight Ultra Series LED video wall displays include the exclusive Planar EverCare Lifetime Limited Warranty.

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VIDEOWALLS ATLONA Atlona OmniStream is a flexible, scalable, and cost-effective AV Over IP distribution platform that is ideal for video wall deployments. OmniStream networked AV encoders handle encoding of HDMI sources such as computers, set-top boxes, and media players onto a Gigabit Ethernet infrastructure. These sources can represent a wide array of content for display on the video wall including campus promotional videos, social media feeds, news, weather, sports, performances, event schedules, cafeteria menus, and more. OmniStream networked AV decoders handle decoding AV content for each of the displays in the video wall. Atlona’s Velocity System provides easy-to-use system control and flexible routing of content to the displays.

CHRISTIE MICROTILES 3D The LED Active 3D option for the Christie MicroTiles LED line was designed for a flicker-free 3D experience. Using active shuttered 3D glasses, users can view 3D content at 120Hz (60Hz per eye) at a 1.25mm

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PRODUCTS pixel pitch. Combined with MicroTiles’ high-brightness and P3 cinema-quality color, Christie MicroTiles LED Active 3D is suitable for even demanding 3D installations such as aerospace, automotive, military, and themed entertainment. With Active 3D, Christie MicroTiles LED displays 4K UHD content at 120 frames per second at 1000 nits brightness via a Christie Link E1000-3D video wall controller. Coupled with Christie MicroTiles LED design flexibility, including inside and outside corners up to 90-degrees and convex and concave curves, the display can be customized to suit anywhere from CAVEs to control rooms. The cabinet-free Click-n-Go LED tiles can be arranged seamlessly in near limitless ways. An innovative ADA-compliant QuickMount system lets you quickly build a display in virtually any shape or size. And the intuitive, easy-to-use web-based control interface can be accessed from any connected device.

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Radian Flex Suite and the Radian FlexPro Suite. The Flex Suite is best fit for economic video wall installations that are not reliant on fail-safe operation. The FlexPro Suite includes dual controllers to ensure fail-safe operation for mission-critical applications.

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BLACK BOX RADIAN FLEX

The Black Box Radian Flex Video Wall Platform supports today’s standard of 4K 60fps video displays up to more than one billion pixels for a claim of “limitless” resolution—meaning it will also be 8K ready and beyond. Solution also supports an unlimited number of inputs, screens, and endpoints. The included Smart-Frame technology ensures optimal use of the video wall display area. This feature provides calibration and fit with minimal setup time. Other key features include content manipulation, schedule and restore capabilities, realtime control over displayed content, slide show, and more. Radian Flex is offered in two suites: The

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Available in 10, 15, 25, 30, 50, 75, and 100M

Color Space 4:4:4

The A27 Pro MiniLED comprises the 1.27mm pixel pitch A2712 Pro and the 1.58mm pixel pitch A2715 Pro. Both have 600 nits brightness, a refresh rate of 1920-3840 Hz, and 14-bit color. Both are a standard size at 27.5” Absen’s Common Cathode technology claims RGB separate power supply, no external resistors, high precision voltage control, low heat dissipation and power consumption, higher LED lifespan and uniformity, and lower color shift at low brightness. The 4-in-1 integrated packaging brings adhesive power and pin tension to secure against cracking or knocking out LEDs. Front servicing eases installation and maintenance.

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Earlier this year, Chief announced white-glove direct view LED installation services for its Chief TiLED Video Wall Mounting System. The company says it recognizes risk mitigation is always top of mind when it comes to dvLED installations. From selecting displays and mounting systems to design configurations and securing skilled labor, and Legrand AV installation team provides the level of service needed. The TiLED Solution Services offers three levels of direct view LED support:Assisted Services puts the Legrand AV tech support team just a click away, with online access to spec and configuration tools like MountFinder and the TiLED LED Video Wall Configurator; Expanded Services offers personalized design consultation with Legrand AV sales, product management, and engineering professionals; Amplified Services includes start-to-finish consultation including customized design, engineered solutions, and labor assistance.

HALL TECHNOLOGIES VERSA 4K

This system extends and switches multiple 4K HDMI video and USB data to virtually an unlimited number of receivers using simple Gigabit network switches. Bidirectional IR, RS-232, and auxiliary audio can also be extended. Features include low latency, video wall mode to expand the video over multiple displays, video rotation and flipping, IR, CEC and Serial-over-IP for control. The system also offers automatic KVM switching, Telnet and Web GUI control, USB Device Class Filtering, and PoE (power over Ethernet) support.

The Sender/Encoder accepts any HDMI resolution including 4K, 60 Hz 4:4:4 with HDCP 2.2 and it includes an HDMI video loop output together with extracted HDMI audio. The Receiver/Decoder includes an HDMI output with extracted HDMI audio, bidirectional IR, RS-232, and 4 USB ports comprised of two USB1.1 ports for use with keyboard and mouse (auto switching based on user activity) and two general purpose USB 2.0 ports that support touch screens, memory devices, and many other USB device functions. Convenient front panel LED and IR remote controller included.

PEERLESS-AV LED VIDEO WALL CONFIGURATOR

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Part of Peerless-AV’s SEAMLESS program for video wall integration, this LED Video Wall Configurator allows users to simply and easily design an LED video wall and request a quote for a mount.

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The configurator will also provide useful information such as mount weight, video wall power consumption, and video wall display resolution. Peerless-AV’s configurator offers a variety of displays to choose from, not limiting options based on brand. If the display users seek is not listed, they can manually enter their display specifications and begin designing a configuration.

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