About LED screens

With a luminance of 2,000 to 5,000 nit, LED screens have the highest brightness of all presentation systems on the market and, under ambient light, the highest contrast.

Besides its unrivalled brightness, the advantages of the LED screen include its long service life with consistent image quality, quick start-up and the option of using the screen both indoors and outdoors, even in the most unfavourable weather conditions (rain, snow).

In the past, one disadvantage was the relatively low resolution of the screens, which produced a rather heavily pixelated image. Today’s state-of-the-art LED video screens, e.g. from BARCO, Daktronics, Hibino, Lighthouse, Panasonic, Mitsubishi and Toshiba, not only have impressive brightness levels but also provide outstandingly high resolution, providing a homogeneous image perception.

There are three different types of LED screen systems: systems for indoor or outdoor use only, and LED screen systems that can be used both indoors and outdoors. An important parameter for the quality of the screen is the resolution, given in millimetres.

Outdoor LED screens

The best outdoor screens have a 6 mm visual and a 12 mm physical resolution (Mitsubishi Diamond Vision AVL-OD6 with 6 mm visual and 12 mm physical resolution) or 10 mm physical resolution (BARCO, Lighthouse, …). Today, there are still a large number of LED screens with low resolutions (pixel pitch > 20 mm) available for rental. This resolution is only usable to a limited extent, particularly with small screen areas, as it impairs the image quality.

Indoor LED screens

The very best (state-of-the-art) LED indoor screens, e.g. the Hibino Chromatek G3, have a physical and visual resolution of 3 mm. With its excellent resolution of 6 mm, the BARCO ILite 6XP LED screen is the most widespread indoor LED product on the market because of its good price/performance ratio, and is often used at (motor) shows and exhibitions, for example.

Outdoor-and-indoor LED screens

New screens, such as the BARCO OLite 510, with a physical and visual pixel pitch and resolution of 10 mm, are designed for both outdoor and indoor use.