Today, Planar, a global leader in visualization technology, announced the launch of the Planar® DirectLight® Essential Series, a line of fine pixel pitch LED video walls delivering incredible visual performance for indoor environments with abundant ambient light.

Planar’s newest line of fine pixel pitch LED video walls introduces a solution that is well-suited for budget-conscious customers who require high-quality imagery, strengthening the Planar® DirectLight® family’s industry-leading position of delivering the finest visual performance. The addition of the Planar DirectLight Essential Series rounds out the Planar DirectLight family, presenting customers with a wider range of high performance ultra-fine pitch LED video walls for indoor applications than ever before.

The Planar DirectLight Essential Series offers 27-inch cabinets available in 0.7, 0.9, 1.2 and 1.5 millimeter pixel pitches and presents deeper blacks and sharper visuals with a 30,000:1 contrast ratio and high refresh rate of 3,840Hz. It is compatible with both the Planar® WallDirector™ Video Controller and LED controllers from ColorLight.

Designed with Chip-on-Board (COB) LED technology, Planar DirectLight Essential Series video wall displays offer high pixel density, energy efficiency and exceptional durability - making it ideal for high-traffic environments such as lobbies, retail spaces, hospitality venues, conference rooms, classrooms and regional broadcast studios. Its high durability also makes the solution well-suited for interactive touch applications.

“We’re very proud to add COB technology to the Planar DirectLight family of leading-edge LED solutions for the first time,” said Robert Detwiler, senior director of product management at Planar. “This significant addition provides our customers with the benefit of COB with lower cost, added durability and vibrant imagery, while also stepping up the performance to be a next-level COB that delivers improved visuals and brightness to power performance to further diversify the flagship Planar DirectLight family.”

Planar DirectLight Essential Series customers also benefit from an LED sorting process that pairs only uniform LEDs together to ensure superior performance as well as a significant reduction in energy requirements. The solution also features a proprietary driver integrated circuit (IC) designed for COB technology. Specially built to mitigate issues related to brightness and color uniformity, the best-in-class driver IC precisely controls power and data to each COB LED. With the driver IC, LEDs are tested at the wafer level to meet brightness, power and color parameters.

Planar DirectLight Essential Series reinforces the company’s commitment to making LED more accessible and easier to deploy. In addition to featuring front access for quick installation and hassle-free service, the innovative solution offers popular Planar® DirectLight® Essential Complete™ display configurations. Available in 109-inch diagonal Full HD, 136-inch diagonal Full HD and 163-inch diagonal 4K sizes, Planar DirectLight Essential Complete pre-configured LED video walls reduce the time, cost and complexity of designing and installing video walls. Planar DirectLight Essential Complete customers are equipped with everything needed for effective deployment, including cables, trim, wall mounts, spare modules as well as a video controller and remote control, in addition to the LED display cabinets.

The new high-performance LED video walls also support remote monitoring with the industry-leading Planar® WallDirector™ Cloud web-based monitoring application. This means Planar DirectLight Essential Series customers can remotely manage the overall performance of the display by monitoring system health and incidents and evaluating and troubleshooting alerts.

The Planar DirectLight Essential Series will begin shipping in Q3 through Planar’s global network of authorized resellers.

TrendForce 2025 Global LED Video Wall Market Outlook and Price Cost Analysis
Release Date: 30 September 2024
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