Not all outdoor LED Displays are created equal. With so many options and features available, choosing the most appropriate one can be challenging. Some LED Display manufactures highlight quality levels while others focus on providing the best priced outdoor LED display.

Which one would you want to go for?

Lowest Price LED Displays?

Manufacturers that market them selves by price only are typically the companies to stay away from. These types of companies come and go quickly. Manufacturers that have the cheapest products typically cut a lot of corners when it comes to the type of internal component they use for the LED display. This leads to low quality cheap products. To cover up the low quality companies use fancy marketing terms to describe and sell their products.

Typically a LED display manufacturer with the cheapest prices offers:

• Lower levels of brightness –only 5,000-6,000 NITS
• Hard to use messaging software – lack of support & cumbersome
• Long leads times on parts & support
• Lack of Quality Certifications- not UL Listed, cUL Listed or CE Listed
• Bad Warranty – minimal 2 year parts warranty
• Pixel Sharing or Virtual Resolution – software that claims to sharpen led display images but long term will create many problems with the image clarity and life of the LED modules.

What is a high quality LED display?

By being honest and upfront about your products your business will always grow and customers will trust your quality.

When searching for a quality LED display and manufacturer always check to see if their led displays are:

Temperature & Climate Tested – units rated for minus -22 degree to 122 degree temperature means the manufacturer is using truly industrial grade internal components. This equals to years of reliable performance in even the harshest of environments.

Passes Strict Tests –  before the LED displays ship they should be tested for and pass the following test: Signal Integrity, Cold Start, Radiated Emissions, Thermal, Impact, Flame, Rain, Immunity, and Surge Protection tests.

Support Materials & Free Training – library of prerecorded software training videos and free live software training.

Manufacturing Quality –manufacturing companies that are ISO 9001 : 2008 Certified is a great sign of a company solid company. This type of certification is the equivalent to quality.

Bespoke LED displays could be coming to a cinema near you, now that cinema screens could be replaced with LED screens.

The first commercial cinema installed a giant projector-less screen made up of LED panels a year ago, and now more and more cinemas are getting in on the act. This means that cinema screens of the future could be made up of one giant LED screen.

A total of 30 screens are expected in to be installed in cinemas across Europe by the end of 2018. Most of the existing large LED cinema screens are currently in Asia.

“LED screens could potentially redefine our conception of the theatrical experience,” says Guillaume Branders, senior industry relations manager at European cinema operators federation the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC).

Industry giant Samsung has sat up and taken notice of the change, noting that it is disruptive to the market and describing the current large LED screens as a ‘trial’ of the new technology.

They are aiming to get 20,000 installations in place by 2020, which represents 10 per cent of the global cinema market, which would be a massive undertaking.

They have a number of models which they are pushing three main models and don’t yet have a super large screen option for big screen cinemas.

These include: 2.7m-wide by 5m-high model with a 2K HD resolution for post-production (DCI certification is expected shortly),

5.6m-by-10.3m DCI-certified version with 4K resolution,

7.3m-by-13.4m screen due by the end of this year.