Before Purchasing an LED Wall…

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by Bryan Cole

LED walls are increasingly being used in HoW worldwide as prices become more affordable. Once considered a tool for only the largest mega-churches with budgets to purchase them and the staff to operate them, LED walls are now within reach of smaller organizations with more mainstream budgets. Here we discuss three important aspects to consider before purchasing an LED wall.

Brightness

The color emanating directly from an LED is very vivid, and very high in contrast – many will say that content on an LED Video wall “really pops.” LED video walls have no problem competing with ambient room light, and they also coexist quite well with theatrical lighting.

Depending on the pixel pitch chosen, a single cabinet can have over 16,000 3-color LEDs. While conversion from Nits (the measure of light output often used for LED walls) to Lumens (the measure of reflected light used for projection) is not a direct process, since one involves area and another does not, even a modest 1200 Nit LED wall is significantly brighter than most single projectors are capable of. This is why in high ambient light situations, projectors are often “stacked” – two devices sending the same image to the same screen to meet minimum brightness requirements for the venue. By comparison, a 1200 Nit LED wall would actually be too bright in some more theatrical-style church lighting situations.

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Technologies for Worship at Infocomm 2015

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Education Program for Houses of Worship Returns to Orlando for Infocomm 2015

Join Technologies for Worship Magazine and our partners, Church Tech Leaders and Infocomm, for over three days of seminars geared specifically to the House of Worship market.

Running from June 16 to June 18 at the Orange County Convention Center, seminars include:

  • Why LEDs Turn Rubber Duckies Evil
  • Choosing the Best Audio Network for Your Needs
  • The Wireless Spectrum Auction and its Importance to HoW
  • Video Creation to Completion (from Storyboards to Final Edits)
  • Building a Lighting System for Houses of Worship
  • The Pursuit of Motion, Resolution and Image Quality
  • How to Develop Your Audio Volunteers
  • LIVE Production Tips
  • Mixing Worship 201
  • Visual Worship – What Does it Mean?
  • Plus many more!

The Technologies for Worship Pavilion, located at booth 6878 on the show floor, will also be running free hands-on workshops, feature live worship bands performing multiple times a day over the course of the show, and have technical experts on-hand to answer your questions.

For more information and to register for your seminars, please click here

Partners include DPA Microphones, Digital Projection International (DPI), Kramer Electronics, LAWO, ProCo (RapcoHorizon), Renkus-Heinz and Skylark Audio Video.

If you have any questions, please call Michelle Makariak, Editor at 705-500-4978, or Darryl Kirkland, Publisher, at 905-690-4709.