Stewart Filmscreen announced last week and demonstrated at #Infocomm15 the release of the FIDELEDY Vision image enhancement system for LED video wall tiles.
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With usage growing at over 20% per year, LED video wall tiles have become a popular large image solution for digital signage, staging, broadcast and filmmaking applications – architects, consultants, and stage managers love the shallow depth and bright images BUT often express a need to enhance the harsh, digitized images these displays can sometimes present.
With over 60 years of image fidelity expertise, Stewart Filmscreen engineers, building upon an award-winning heritage with rear projection screen surfaces, developed the FIDELEDY Vision system to give LED video walls a true cinematic appearance.
The system also eliminates moiré interference [2] issues prevalent in re-photography situations.
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FIDELEDY Vision will soon be available in a range of light transmission and contrast options. The breadth of requirements across various vertical markets demands a customized solution to each installation and by fine-tuning the transmissive properties, Stewart designers can perfectly match the focal properties of the enhancement screen to the width of the viewing area.
Grant Stewart, CEO and President of Stewart Filmscreen said “FIDELEDY Vision is a must-have for LEDs in any studio environment because it completely removes moiré interference typically found in broadcast scenarios. For digital signage applications, it reduces the harsh electronic pixel structure and creates a smooth, film-like appearance even at close viewing distances.”
- Digital Signage Applications. While beneficial with informational signage FIDELEDY Vision truly shines when the signage is architectural in nature. The cinematic quality created by the enhancement screen empowers designers to present lovely pictorial scenes that can be refreshed instantly to suit changing requirements, seasons, times of day, or any of a number of environmental or marketing factors. Because FIDELEDY Vision moderates the harsh intensity of LED light output, module placement can be much closer to the viewing audience without creating a fatiguing experience.
- Broadcast and Filmmaking Applications. LED tiles are often specified for broadcast or filmmaking, but bring a negative side effect of distracting moiré into the video mix—a frustrating fact of life for cinematographers, filmmakers, and producers. FIDELEDY Vision eliminates the moiré resulting in gorgeous, uncompromised video with impressive image integrity.
- Stewart High-Performance Screen Quality. FIDELEDY Vision enhances the image quality for greater realism and viewer comfort, and a far superior experience compared with unenhanced LED video wall installations. Delivering an extremely flat spectral response curve on and off axis, FIDELEDY Vision maintains color accuracy for the truest image. Furthermore, its low-gloss surface characteristics reject glare from adjacent surfaces to suit a wide range of lighting environments.
- Completely Customizable. FIDELEDY Vision is designed to be custom-engineered for every application. Stewart Filmscreen engineers will work with clients, installers, and architects to design the framing and mounting systems to best suit the location, the type of LED modules, and the environment. The screen is completely scalable in seamless sizes up to 40 x 90 feet. With Stewart Filmscreen’s EZ Mount QR frame installation system, FIDELEDY Vision is not only easily installed, it can be easily removed to provide low cost, highly efficient access for maintenance or repair of the LED wall tiles.
FIDELEDY Vision was demonstrated using Christie Velvet LED Tiles at Stewart Filmscreen’s #InfoComm15 booth #2821.