Eyevis water resistant LED – the yellow items are ducks! Image:MekoEyevis had plenty to show. We started by looking at a new 55″ video wall LCD that has 1.9mm bezel gap, being based on the Samsung panels and with 4,000:1 contrast. Next we looked at the firm’s existing UltraHD 85″ LCD monitor, which can be fitted with a 32 touch infrared system based on technology from PQ Labs.
Eyevis had wall-mounted its DLP cubes, which it claims is the slimmest DLP cubes available (in 50″, 60″ and 70″) and Eyevis told us that it is slimmer than Mitsubishi, which was also promoting the low depth of its cubes. Eyevis also pointed out that its cube system does not use any “overscanning” to adjust the image, but just mechanics and optics. The latest versions started shipping a short while ago and have been already installed (including in the control room for the Hindhead tunnel, near to our editor’s home).
A highlight of the booth was a very good looking LED-based 0.9mm indoor display created by Unilumin and with UltraHD resolution in a 3.7m x 2.1m wall. Eyevis and Unilumin have signed a joint development agreement and will work together on 0.9mm, 1.2mm, 1.5mm and 1.9mm LED walls. The brightness of the 0.9mm display on show was 600 cd/m² and staff told us that a budget price is around €100K/m². When we got to the Unilumin booth, the company showed us (as Leyard had) a 16:9 demo of a 16:9 format display based on a 3 x 3 array of 0.9mm LEDs with 800 cd/m². The company emphasised that it has recently been able to achieve FCC “B” approval for EMI, allowing sale for domestic use.
Unilumin was also highlighting its UPad III aluminium module system for rental and staging which supports brightness up to 5,500 cd/m² which can be used in convex or concave curved configurations with 10º change in alignment between adjacent cabinets. The firm told us that the rental and staging market remains reasonably good, but with increasing and fierce competition from the supply side.
Eyevis has developed a coating system to allow indoor LEDs to be waterproofed for environments where this might be an issue (see image).
