LED lights are becoming a big addition in many live
productions in the entertainment industry. They are more efficient than
incandescent and arc lamps, they produce less heat, they are easy to handle
because they aren’t very fragile, and they are capable of producing many different
colors with out the need of plastic or dichroic glass gels. LED isn’t only used
for lighting. It is also used for projection.
A company in Nashville, Tennessee called PixelFlex, created
a product called the PixelFlex LED curtain. Just like a regular LED screen, the
PixelFlex LED Curtain is an LED screen that uses LED lights to project images. The
unique thing about PixelFlex is that they are lightweight and flexible LED
screens. They are easy to install and can be set up everywhere and anywhere. The
screen has multiple LED panel sections that work together and can be expanded
to any custom screen dimension. The screen panels connect via a Cat5 Ethernet
cable. Each panel has two Ethernet ports one for input and another for output. Any
video output device that has a DVI-D connector, such as a computer, can be
connected to the video sending unit used to send signal to the panels. The PixelFlex
LED Curtain screen has 3000 LED pixels per square meter.
Longwood University in Virginia recently installed one of
the PixelFlex LED curtains on their campus. The screen is a total of 15 panels creating
a 17 by 32 foot screen. A great feature about the PixelFlex screen is that it
can be used as one big screen or can be physically divided and into multiple
sections and used in different locations using different video sending unit. The
PixelFlex can be a great addition to large lighting and video productions. It
can provide multiple sections of video and can also be used as an addition for
backlight on a stage.
The greatest feature about the PixelFlex LED curtain is that
it is lightweight and easy to transport. A live production can be more time
efficient with using the PixelFlex and it can create screens that are larger than
life with the unique capability of easy expansion.
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