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What made you switch over from Samsung’s the Wall Luxury to Sony’s Crystal LED ?
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Hi Matt welcome to DCI forum. Believe or not I had written a long post explaining the whole story but went to click google zoom and xed out instead, i promise i will write it all up with the background of the Screen vetting.
We were fully committed to the Wall Luxury based on image expectations derived from seeing the wall professional.
We even built the frame for it.
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Rather well engineered, no?
I had seen the Cled at Cinemaxon intro in 2016. Looked great but not quite the giant BVM ref. monitor image. It was 1.2 million. Quite frankly since seeing the Jetsons at age 9 I have been on a constant search for the Holly Grail Display for Penthouses with a great view. This made it all possible 50 years later. LOL.
Long Story Short: When Samsung finally rolled out the Wall Lux, they went for so much specifications that they basically clogged the pipeline and screwed the image up royally. Because they are new to the LED Videowall arena they did not count on the massive data flow that would be required from the sendbox to the display, the end result is dithering ( which creates the same discomfort as color wheels on projectors)and also excessive HDR.
I told my San Diego client (code name Blofeld because his PH is all that) this from Orlando that the Wall in a few minutes managed to poke my eye to the point of nerve pain and wanted my eyes to turn cross eyed. The eye pain I experienced once before on the SIM2 duo the my friends had cranked up to the maxx sans filters. They later plopped filters in and lowered the lamps by 50%.
So my trained
eyes have this fail safe for when just too much HDR is on the screen, otherwise my eyes are great, even complimented recently for the Barco series 4 setup.My client trusts me implicitely but hearing that the Wall did not meet expectations after a 2 year planning effort was a bit inconvenient.
Not only that I told my client that somehow the C LED Image was way better calibrated and possesed a unique very inviting element to the picture that instead of repelling you wants to sit there mesmerized for hours on end. I took the liberty of introducing the project to SONY who were very interested in the SKYLOUNGE PROTOTYPE.
To be honest among 60 led walls at the show I revisited another more conventional 1.2 wall that in my opinion was second only to the SONY but at half the price, The client and I had flewn up to see that other brand back in 2018 and was being considered, except this other version of it was incredible. Code name Miami Screen.
We got quotes for all of them, at the end contrary to Mr. Marketing's assertion, the price per square foot is the same on both the CLED and Wall Lux.
Still the owner had too much invested in the wall luxury. During CEDIA i took the client first to see the Wall and although there was not too much HDR this time, I asked him what do you see, the color dithering I argue, he immediately said Why Am I not Loving this picture? there is something uncomfortable going on. I said now you get it. We walked over to the CLED and he just sat there quietly for 10 minutes, " I can't get my eyes off this image" he said, so inviting I want to just stay here watching. That is when I spotted Jason Metcalfe the sales engineer and asked for an invite to the backroom.
Mind you the best place to see the CLED is in SONY pictures in a dark DCI cinema. But his impression at CEDIA completely re prioritized the display element of the project.
tbc
Hi Matt welcome to DCI forum. Believe or not I had written a long post explaining the whole story but went to click google zoom and xed out instead, i promise i will write it all up with the background of the Screen vetting.
We were fully committed to the Wall Luxury based on image expectations derived from seeing the wall professional.
We even built the frame for it.
Rather well engineered, no?
I had seen the Cled at Cinemaxon intro in 2016. Looked great but not quite the giant BVM ref. monitor image. It was 1.2 million. Quite frankly since seeing the Jetsons at age 9 I have been on a constant search for the Holly Grail Display for Penthouses with a great view. This made it all possible 50 years later. LOL.
Long Story Short: When Samsung finally rolled out the Wall Lux, they went for so much specifications that they basically clogged the pipeline and screwed the image up royally. Because they are new to the LED Videowall arena they did not count on the massive data flow that would be required from the sendbox to the display, the end result is dithering ( which creates the same discomfort as color wheels on projectors)and also excessive HDR.
I told my San Diego client (code name Blofeld because his PH is all that) this from Orlando that the Wall in a few minutes managed to poke my eye to the point of nerve pain and wanted my eyes to turn cross eyed. The eye pain I experienced once before on the SIM2 duo the my friends had cranked up to the maxx sans filters. They later plopped filters in and lowered the lamps by 50%.
So my trained
eyes have this fail safe for when just too much HDR is on the screen, otherwise my eyes are great, even complimented recently for the Barco series 4 setup.My client trusts me implicitely but hearing that the Wall did not meet expectations after a 2 year planning effort was a bit inconvenient.
Not only that I told my client that somehow the C LED Image was way better calibrated and possesed a unique very inviting element to the picture that instead of repelling you wants to sit there mesmerized for hours on end. I took the liberty of introducing the project to SONY who were very interested in the SKYLOUNGE PROTOTYPE.
To be honest among 60 led walls at the show I revisited another more conventional 1.2 wall that in my opinion was second only to the SONY but at half the price, The client and I had flewn up to see that other brand back in 2018 and was being considered, except this other version of it was incredible. Code name Miami Screen.
We got quotes for all of them, at the end contrary to Mr. Marketing's assertion, the price per square foot is the same on both the CLED and Wall Lux.
Still the owner had too much invested in the wall luxury. During CEDIA i took the client first to see the Wall and although there was not too much HDR this time, I asked him what do you see, the color dithering I argue, he immediately said Why Am I not Loving this picture? there is something uncomfortable going on. I said now you get it. We walked over to the CLED and he just sat there quietly for 10 minutes, " I can't get my eyes off this image" he said, so inviting I want to just stay here watching. That is when I spotted Jason Metcalfe the sales engineer and asked for an invite to the backroom.
Mind you the best place to see the CLED is in SONY pictures in a dark DCI cinema. But his impression at CEDIA completely re prioritized the display element of the project.
tbc
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