Video walls are getting “bigger and bigger and cheaper and cheaper,” prompting wider adoption among broadcasters who are discovering a broad raft of storytelling and set design opportunities in their adoption. Above, FX Design Group delivered the set for KHON Honolulu, which includes a 3.9 pixel pitch video wall background that stretches nearly 33 feet long and just over 8 feet high.
Recent supply chain issues notwithstanding, newsrooms are embracing LED video walls for their dropping prices, ease of use and improved quality over older, LCD options. Above: WRDW Augusta, Ga., included a large video wall in its new facility, designed by FX, that it moved into earlier this year. (Source: WRDW)
Despite pushing newsrooms temporarily into mostly remote production, set design vendors say COVID-19 won’t have a lasting effect on where sets were heading before the pandemic. They say viewers are likely to see more LED panels and walls, virtual sets and augmented and virtual reality usage in news studios. Above, for the TF1 broadcast news studio in France, Planar delivered a 750-square-foot curved video wall.
Densitron, a creator of HMI technologies and a global provider of display, monitor and embedded computing solutions, has joined nearly 2,000 worldwide adopters of the HDMI standard and is now a fully licensed manufacturer and supplier of HDMI 2.1 and later connectivity and devices. As a global provider of professional touch-based Human Machine Interface (HMI) […]
Liquid-crystal display screens were expected to slowly fade and die, giving way to lighter, thinner and tougher organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels in everything from smartphones to televisions. But LCD is refusing to go quietly as its picture quality keeps getting better.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s LG Display said Thursday it may appeal on procedural grounds a massive European Union fine for price fixing even as it acknowledged it had violated competition law over several years. The EU competition watchdog fined LG Display and four Taiwanese manufacturers euro649 million ($863 million) on Wednesday for […]
