8000 lumen brightness LED display located in New York Times Square

November 20, 2008, a large LED advertising screen located in New York times square. According to the screen designer D3 LED said, although the screen is not the world's largest LED screen, is the world's most complex design, including its structure and operation mode. The 340 foot high, 17000 square feet of LED large screen area was set up in a company called Walgreens the nation's largest drugstore chain above, it consists of a number of the tilt of the LED panel, with a 1360 inch plasma display panel forms a one-way moving pictures, advertisement picture to 20 times the ordinary HDTV resolution display. It can show the number of colors than ordinary TV and even color printing machine should be rich. And can provide 8000 lumens brightness, night more eye-catching.

In order to create such a screen, the designer used 12 million LED unit, 150G advertising content every 30 seconds to switch once, advertising content provided by 32 sets of customized computer, and all the uncompressed high-definition format, the designer said, if in order to save storage space and the use of compression format requires more computer equipment support. And if the use of CRT technology to achieve such a demonstration effect, it may take 4 times the price and power of 10 times.

Source: the age of projection