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Christie Entero LED Illuminated Rear-Projection Displays
Christie Entero LED is the world’s first LED-based ultra-high resolution (SXGA+ and WUXGA) projection display system. A purpose-built system ready for control room and videowall applications. By combining the reliable, high quality projection performance of DLP® technology with the efficiency and long life expectancy of LED illumination, the Christie Entero LED Series has been designed for extraordinarily long life, reliable operation and performance quality that is ideally suited for videowall displays.
For control room, command center and network operation centers that are used to providing interactive and collaborative monitoring 24/7, the Christie Entero LED Series is a perfect fit because of its “zero maintenance” design platform.
What does Christie mean by a “zero maintenance” design?
The criterion for choosing a control room display wall is low cost of ownership. Consumables, maintenance, down-time and power usage dictate a customer’s choice for a control room display solution. The Christie Entero LED is set to revolutionize the control room market by offering an LED illumination platform which contains no consumable components that would otherwise require scheduled replacement and maintenance. With five years of operating life and built-in management features that continuously monitor and manage brightness and color control across the entire display wall, the Christie Entero’s design platform is designed to operate with virtually zero maintenance. Finally, a control room display wall solution that offers price-for-performance!
Ideal for control room settings
Aside from requiring excellent display performance, historically the market has continued to ask for lower cost of operation of the equipment used for displays and videowalls. Over the last 10 years, the lamp life for the projection based systems used in 24/7 applications has improved. Competitive solutions began by offering a 4,000-hour lamp life, which increased to 6,000 hours and 8,000 hours, until finally it reached 10,000 hours for mercury-based UHP lamps. 10,000 hours seems to be the maximum lamp life rating that current mercury based lamp technologies can offer. LED technology pushes that threshold to over 50,000 hours.
LED offers several benefits, including:
Solid state illumination technology - LEDs are solid state. There is no lamp arc to ignite, degrade and maintain over time
Instant on - Unlike arc lamps which may take over a minute to turn on and reach full brightness, LEDs turn on instantly
Extremely long life - The rated lifetime of the LEDs is 50,000 hours (more than 5 years)
No color wheel required - The high speed on/off capability of LEDs means that for 1-chip DLP systems there is no need for a motorized color wheel. Red, green and blue LEDs can be sequenced at rates many times higher than color wheels, thus reducing the likelihood of visible sequencing artifacts
Wider color gamut for more vivid color - The color spectral characteristics and range surpass that provided by traditional color wheel based systems. EBU (European Broadcasting Standards) standards are far exceeded with LEDs and the system allows color performance to be easily manipulated to best match the application
Better brightness control - LEDs offer a wide range of brightness control, unlike mercury lamps which offer only about 10-25% brightness adjustment. In addition, there is no need for mechanical apertures to adjust brightness
Environmentally responsible - LEDs are an environmentally responsible “green” light source, free of hazardous substances found in conventional lamp technologies
The main benefits for using this technology in a control room setting:
Cost savings – the “zero maintenance” design of the Christie Entero LED Series offers considerable cost savings for the lifetime operation of the videowall system. This revolutionary aspect of the product eliminates all consumable components, such as lamps and color wheels. There is no mechanical color wheel within the projection engine that may fail and require replacing. In addition, the sealed optical design means there are no dust filters to be replaced.
Minimized wall disruption – With no consumable components to replace there is substantially less disruption to the display wall over its life. Christie Entero LED projection units feature built-in Christie LiteLOC™ and Christie ColorLOC™ for automatic, independent brightness and color management. They also feature Christie ArrayLOC™, an innovative technology that automatically matches color and brightness levels for every cube, across the entire display wall, on a continuous basis. The result is the perfect control room solution for videowalls of any size, without the need for constant maintenance and adjustments which disrupt operation and lead to unproductive downtime.
Based on 30 years of designing and manufacturing high performance rear projection display innovations, the Christie Entero LED Series is the another exciting revolution from Christie.
If you would like more information or would like to talk with a salesperson please contact the office nearest you or email sales@vmivideo.com with your request (please include the article name, and your contact information).
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