Barco launches LED displays with higher brightness and enhanced contrast
Kuurne, Belgium, 7 June 2006 – Barco, innovator in creative visualization, is delighted to announce the launch of a new addition to its OLITE family of LED products. Launched at Infocomm 2006, the OLITE 612 marks another leap forward in LED technology and reaffirms Barco leadership position in LED technology through its ultra bright light output and vastly improved contrast levels.
The new OLITE 612, has a pixel pitch of 12mm and has an ultra bright light output of 6000NITs. It also features a radical new shader design which results in much darker black levels especially in broad daylight. When combined with the high brightness light output, the OLite 612 delivers vastly improved contrast levels, critical in outdoor events such as live concerts.
Built specifically for the demanding rental and staging market, the OLITE 612 is designed for creative applications as well as the classic Image Magnification (IMAG) applications. Each tile can be easily split up into 48 small, square individual modules enabling creative display designs of any size and shape. The concept has proven to be very attractive to show designers who are looking to move beyond the use of video as pure image magnification. The modularity allows designers to integrate LED screen technology into set designs, and to let video flow over surfaces and truly harmonize with the overall visual concept. The OLITE 612 is also the perfect solution for creative fixed installations.
The use of SMD technology enables wide viewing angles and superb uniformity at very short viewing distances. Add to this the high brightness, high resolution and superior color depth and uniformity (15 bit processing), IP65 rating (front and back) and you will see that OLITE represents a quantum leap forward in LED display technology.
The combination of indoor and outdoor usage as well as conventional display and creative applications makes OLITE the most versatile LED display system on the market. The versatility enables rental companies to achieve unprecedented return on investment as the OLITE 612 can be used in a wide range of applications and settings.
You can see OLITE 612 at Infocomm, 7-9 June in Orlando, USA, stand Number 2800.
About Barco
Barco, a global technology company headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, designs and develops visualization products for a variety of professional markets. Barco has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. For fiscal year 2005, Barco posted net sales of euro 712.0 million.
Barco’s ordinary shares are listed on the Brussels/Euronext stock exchange. Barco is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company. Share information may be accessed on Bloomberg under the symbol BAR BB and on Reuters under BARBt.BR.
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