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These are important economic barriers today and for some time to come. Even if the price drops to half that over time, that’s double the cost of projection for a screen half the size of many cinema screens. Its cost is also in that $300K to $400K range. That’s about $2,600 per diagonal inch! You can easily match that size with a projector and screen using products available at Best Buy starting at $20 per diagonal inch! The Samsung CinemaWall deployed in a couple of theaters in South Korea, and one experimental location in SoCal, is an 18-foot x 33-foot screen using 2.5mm dot pitch panels to yield a 2160 x 4096-pixel image. The 146-inch “ The Wall” from Samsung was quoted at CEDIA to be a $380,000 retail item. First and foremost, don’t forget about the economics. But in any case, let’s not impugn the undisputed king of cinema displays today, and into the foreseeable future: video projection.ġ. Of course, the panelist is from a company that only makes TVs (Samsung), so they have a bias, and perhaps a lack of understanding of projection in cinema. And by the way, they can run at 100 nits (the Dolby Vision Luminance standard) as well as 1,000 nits!īut microLED is not considered a replacement for projection in cinema in part due to LED's performance and economic disadvantages, which are largely missed when discussing this topic. MicroLED is a coming technology and even Hollywood is working on new standards for it related to the Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCi) to bring this display technology into technical and artistic compliance with the creative community’s expectations. A MicroLED Rebuttal:īut not so fast on the demise of projection or the perhaps dubious advantages of MicroLED elicited by the panelists.

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Here's Bishop's full remarks on the state of MicroLEDs and related large-display formats. “In residential environs it’s getting there, but only for those in the 1% class right now.” He estimates the projection system cost about $350,000 for a screen size of about 30 x 65 feet.ĭirect-view LED “is not yet ready for the scale of cinema,” Bishop says. Besides having “probably the best ATMOS mix I’ve ever heard,” Bishop says, “the image was superb.” Meanwhile, Bishop just attended a showing of Bohemian Rhapsody at the Times Square Dolby Vision theater. “Price is a pretty important factor,” he says.

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“It looked good, better than any TV,” he tells CE Pro however, the 9 x 16-foot panel would have a retail price of $1.4 million. He says the second-gen 4K version, with a 1.2mm-pixel pitch, is vastly improved over the first, which had a higher-gloss finish that wouldn't work well in real-world conditions. While he sees potential for MicroLEDs in the consumer market - some day - he says they're a long way off from projection systems.Īt a recent SMPTE video-geek meeting, he says he saw the next-generation crystal LED 4K display from Sony. We received several responses on Facebook and Twitter about the talk and our related story, and one particularly long-winded comment on Not surprisingly, the comment came from John Bishop, video maven and owner of the rep firm b/a/s/ Bishop Architectural-entertainment Services in the Northeast. Integrators steered us away from the category for 2019's Top 5 class, hoping that 2020 will be “the year.”ĭuring a CEDIA Expo Tech Talk, presenters gave a compelling case for the new large-format displays, noting their potential to displace big two-piece projector systems in the future.

Gorgeous and exciting as Sony's CLEDIS and Samsung's The Wall are, we still have a couple of years until they are ready for the two-percent, and not just the one-percent of households.