The Wynn Hotel’s newly-renovated sportsbook recently opened on the Las Vegas Strip.
Central to the building’s face-lift is a brand new 1,176-tile, 21.7-million-pixel, 457m² SiliconCore Peony LED videowall, with a 2.6mm pixel pitch and a resolution of 16,128 x 1,344, which stretches 41.8 metres wide and includes a scrolling ticker along the bottom, 96 pixels high with a 1080p resolution.
The single seamless LED videowall uses 32 SVSi decoders that feed three Analog Way 4K multi-layer seamless switchers. There are two control points for the main displays, which use Crestron 20″ controllers. There are also more than fifty 21.5″ Samsung touchscreen displays for the sporting crowd to get their bets in.
The LED wall runs from the ceiling down to a point about midway to the floor, where it ends atop a line of existing LCD video displays, so it had to be arranged in a portrait orientation, not landscape, as such a configuration might otherwise indicate. The tiles are laid out 168 tiles long and only seven tiles tall.
A concern was LED tile alignment. With resolution this high, contractor RP Visual said, misalignments in the picture can be readily discernible from the seating areas. The firm used what has become its foundational formula for this: Start with the bottom line of tiles first, then build a “spine” of tiles that rise from that at the wall’s midpoint, adding each successive row of tiles upward, working from the spine out left and right. “We’ve found that this approach works the best with most of the LED walls on the market,” RP Visual VPt John Brereton said. “Some manufacturers use an interlock system between the tiles, where gravity helps you with alignment. Otherwise, starting at the bottom and using a spine as an index has been the most effective approach.”
The visuals are complemented by audio from Harman Professional brands, JBL Professional, Crown and BSS Audio, with some Meyer Sound components now in the process of being added.
