21 Philips video wall displays were used to create a 3×3 screen and a 4×3 screen. Each screen was mounted onto a pop-out bracket and daisy chained with DVI cables. The content was controlled and updated remotely from a Windows media player running embed.
At the time of installation, video walls were by far the best solution available. Fast-forward a couple of years and this is not the case. LED screens are fast becoming, if not already, the go-to option for large displays thanks to many benefits, with some being listed below. The drastic drop in price is also a huge benefit and now in some cases makes LED cheaper than video walls, therefore being the most cost-effective solution.
AFTER
Absen A275 1.5mm pixel pitch panels were chosen to create a 6×6 screen and a 8×6 screen, where they are daisy chained with power and data. The dimensions of the new screens are almost an exact match using 84 LED panels.
After installing some additional hardware, each screen benefits from 4 inputs, PIP options and audio, which is all controlled from an easy to use touchscreen, running embed. The space can now be used to inform, educate, entertain and through video conferencing and casting hardware, arrange and hold meetings.
BEZEL FREE
Even when using the slimmest bezel possible, each video wall display is still noticeable. LED benefits from a modular concept that fit together to offer a truly seamless canvas with no disruption to the content.
NO DISRUPTION
If, and when, a video wall display goes faulty you could potentially lose a large section or your screen. However, a pixel failure with LED is less catastrophic and usually goes unnoticed by the untrained eye.
COLOUR REPRODUCTION
Over time, like any LCD display, the colours will fade and in a video wall become inconsistant. Thanks to batch production and intense testing, LED guarentees unifrom and accurate colour representation.
Other benefits and more information on LED can be found here.
Eclipse Digital Media have the great honour to announce that they have been shortlisted for Retail Project of the Year at the AV Awards 2020.
The AV Awards are to reward global AV talent for best practice taken to the next level, recognising those businesses raising the bar and setting new standards we should all strive to achieve.
The Retail Project category is extremely strong so to have make the final shortlist, is a great achievement for Eclipse Digital Media – a true testament to the hard work and dedication the team bring to each and every project.
Retail Project of the Year Finalist
Bobby Moore Bridge Digital Transformation, Wembley Park, London, UK
The project Eclipse Digital have been shortlisted for in the Retail Project of the Year category is the Bobby Moore Bridge Digital Transformation at Wembley Park, London.
The Bridge has been digitally enhanced with LED screens and lighting system all connected to offer a fully integrated digital walkway to and from Wembley Park. The system includes over 100m2 Absen XD6 LED panels in two high-resolution outdoor LED configurations, fitted to the northern and southern parapets of the bridge. Under the bridge, there are a series of LED lights behind diffuse glass panels to create a ‘dot’ effect, in keeping with the original tile artwork at the site, and finally, low resolution LED strips have been spread out across the ceiling in linear rows.
The AV Awards are planned to take place in November where the winners will be announced.
Quintain Living is Quintain’s Build to Rent Management Brand. Wembley Park is set to become the largest build-to-rent development site in the UK, with 5,000 homes being delivered by 2024. Quintain Living will manage all of the build-to-rent homes at Wembley Park, offering brand new beautifully designed apartments boasting Samsung appliances, curated furniture collections co-designed with John Lewis & Partners, iconic views and 24-hour services.
Digital Signage and AV work completed by Eclipse Digital for Quintain Living includes:
14m2 Outdoor Rooftop Cinema with iPad control and wireless audio system (Alameda)
Room booking signage (Alameda)
Building concierge & lift lobby digital signage (Alameda, Ferrum, Montana, Seath, Jackson, Landsby, Alto, Canada Gardens, Dakota)
Tipi Hub on Olympic Way (street facing 9x high bright video wall, meeting room screens, wireless presentation systems, touch screens)
“Eclipse Digital overcame every challenge faced and delivered an AV package that sets Tipi’s facilities apart from anything else in the residential rental market. It’s a truly amazing space that gives the buildings a real wow-factor and has been the cause of many positive responses from Tipi residents” Mike Dodd, Senior Development Manager, Quintain
We’d like to say a big thank you to all those involved in making this project a success including all of those on the client side. We’d like to give a special mention to the following companies for their support:
Visitor Attraction Project of the Year – Eclipse Digital Media – Wembley Park, Bobby Moore Bridge Digital Transformation
Residential Project of the Year – Eclipse Digital Media – Tipi, Wembley Park
The 2020 awards are taking place in digital form this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 measures. The winners will be announced during Awards Week between 23rd and 25th June and will be featured in a special awards edition of Installation magazine in July.
There are some exceptional projects in both categories meaning it would be an extremely proud moment for Eclipse Digital to win either or both… we eagerly await the reveal in June.
Google is taking Digital Signage very seriously of late. Their Chrome browser and OS offers multiple digital signage services with a name you know and trust. From media players and devices to digital signage software and its own chrome device management platform, Chrome has every aspect of Digital Signage covered… so let’s take a look at it in a bit more detail:
BENEFITS OF CHROME FOR DIGITAL SIGNAGE
Chrome devices run Chrome OS, which is designed by Google. The digital signage focused devices range from small dongle types to 24/7 commercial grade media players and all in one touch screen solutions, all of which guarantee:
Speed
Starts in seconds and gets faster over time, allowing you to focus on getting things done.
Security
Built in encryption, sandboxing and automatic updates give all chrome devices high quality security.
Reliability
Chrome devices are built from ground up with speed, reliability and simplicity at their core, providing unmatched uptime and security for signage deployments.
CHROME DEVICES FOR DIGITAL SIGNAGE
Chromeboxes
Chromeboxes are sleek, compact devices that are suitable for digital signage and kiosks. We recommend the use of AOPEN Chromeboxes due to their 24/7 design – the only Chromeboxes on the market designed specifically with digital signage in mind.
Chromebases
Chromebases are simple all-in-one touch devices perfect for kiosks or POS displays.
Chromebits
Chromebits allow you to turn any screen into an digital sign. These devices, although not commercial grade, provide a great entry level option to those on a budget that may already have displays in place.
Using Chrome Device Management, an administrator of a G Suite account can manage and configure more than 200 features and polices on Chrome devices. User, device and network settings can be pre-configured to a Chrome device or remotely configured from the control panel. These settings can be applied to the entire organisation and all of its chrome devices or specific settings can be set for individual devices.
Chrome sign builder is an entry level, basic digital signage app that allows users to schedule and display URL’s.
Web content such as menus, images, YouTube videos, playlists and Google presentations can be scheduled to play for specific times or all day for a set number of days. You configure the builder once in the initial setup and then you proceed to create schedules and specify the URLs for the content.
The Chrome sign builder can be downloaded and installed on any Chrome device or any other computer with a Chrome browser from the Chrome web store.
The Fully Loaded…
embed signage is a cloud based digital signage software with heaps of features. They are also Google Cloud Chrome Technology Partners too, a status only given to businesses that create products that complement, enhance, or extend the reach / functionality of Google Cloud products.
The feature rich software allows users to create multi-zoned, multi-media layouts that can be scheduled to play at certain times of the day, days of the week, specific dates and even weather conditions. Content is published to the devices which download and store it locally for playback. There are also a wide range of free plugins and widgets such as Twitter, RSS and weather that are available to use.
Pair embed signage with an AOPEN Chrome Device and Chrome Device Management gives you a great digital signage package. Not only do you get the advanced features of the embed signage software together with the reliability and speed benefits of the Chrome device but you can also remotely manage and deploy devices in kiosk mode (locked down to the signage application only) incredibly easily and in minutes using the Chrome Device Management – here’s how:
The meeting room is an area of high importance.It’s the point of first impressions, the place of making or breaking of deals, and a garden of productivity.
The aim of this post is to showcase just some of the AV opportunities available to make your meeting room as productive and impressionable as possible. Here are some of our key ingredients…
The Room-Sharking Repellant.
I’m sure most people can relate to the annoyance of either having no meeting rooms available or having someone linger outside and barge into your room mid-presentation. Room Booking software and meeting room displays combat this.
Room booking screens combat room-sharking allowing clear identification of free space from a distance. Green its free, red its booked. Certain Room Booking displays also offer external status LED’s that you can’t miss. The Reserva solution also offers on-the-fly booking via touchscreen.
Intelligent Room booking software allows two-way communication between not only the built-in online calendar, but can integrate with existing Office 365, Exchange, Scientia and Micros Opera accounts.
A Reserva summary display showing all up and coming meetings is a great addition for any reception or communal area.
The Hybrid Display
Digital Signage and Presentation Display… at the same time. Your brand ethos can be reenforced through digital signage internal communications. Push the latest company news and achievements to staff and visitors.
Plug your laptop or tablet via HDMI to present to present on the big screen. This set-up allows for the presentation to be contained in a chosen zone allowing for important additional content to be displayed at all times. Creating a live, interactive experience. Live TV or IPTV broadcasts can be implemented into your signage to create powerful, up-to-date information.
The Future of Whiteboards
Start with a blank canvas or draw, highlight and edit over presentations on the fly. Providing the ability to visually display and explore new ideas. Both CleverTouch and Samsung both offer premium interactive whiteboard solutions in a range of capability and sizes.
Gone are the days of Easels and Flipcharts, were photos would need to be taken to distrubute the contents to participants. CleverTouch whiteboards allow documents, presentations and edits can be quickly shared via the whiteboards own email address.
Simple just got more simple.
9 in 10 office workersexperience technology-related stress in meetings. Embarking on the task to decipher how to connect your laptop to the main presentation display can be somewhat frustraiting without the right hardware or adaptors. This is why we’ve found Barco ClickShare, it just works. With the majority of devices supporting traditional USB 2.0, just plug in, click, and present. No software required.
For those without a USB port, a ClickShare app is avaliable to wirelessly stream from your device to the display. Certain ClickShare devices also support Apple’s AirPlay and Google Cast making streaming from MacOS, iOS and Chrome OS devices easier than ever.
If You’re Feeling Extravagant…
An Indoor LED or videowall is the way to go. Give your meeting room the power to ‘wow’ and leave your stakeholders or potential clients impressed. LED walls and Videowalls create an attention-grabbing centerpiece, ideal for displaying live data, statistics and social feeds.
Hopefully this post has provided some ideas and inspiration on some of the latest meeting room equiptment and how you could transform yours.
Have you ever experienced meeting room hell? Fighting with cables and connectors, trouble with sharing presentations on screen, getting connection with your tablet… 9 in 10 office workers experience technology-related stress in meetings.
According to a study by Barco, when tech problems in meetings occur:
66% try to fix problems themselves
50% call IT/tech support
29% give up with the tech and go to their plan B
15% even postpone meetings until technology problems can be fixed
Despite this Meeting Room Hell, 80% of people still feel that tech is important to their meeting and that it should make their meetings easier and more productive… thankfully Barco ClickShare is here to help.
ClickShare is a Wireless Presentation System that can help liberate you from Meeting Room Hell for a simple, stress free, productive meeting.
Learn all about ClickShare in less that 2 minutes by watching this video:
Barco Authorised Partner
Eclipse Digital Media are a Barco Authorised Partner. Talk to us about your Meeting Room Hell and how using Barco ClickShare can help improve the simplicity and productivity of meetings while reducing stress levels.
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