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By Plimun Web Design
Two commercial-grade panels for digital signage being released this spring are changing the look of video walls. The Samsung 460UT and the NEC MultiSync X461UN garnered much attention at the recent Digital Signage Expo because of their ultra-thin bezels, which enhance video wall configurations by reducing the seams between the panels for a more continuous picture.
The 460UT and MultiSync X461UN are actually very similar, due to the fact that NEC procured the panel technology from Samsung, who did the original research and development. Though several features differentiate the two, both models have a 7.3mm screen-to-screen bezel size when placed in a video wall.
The thin-bezel screens were designed in response for a demand for larger viewing areas and cleaner video walls, said Kevin Schroll, product manager for digital signage for Samsung.
“Places like hotels and casinos are especially looking for high-impact signage,” he said. “So tiling a bunch of 46-inch screens, especially now when you can get a near-seamless arrangement, is going to have more impact than stand-alone screens, no matter the size.”
“Using thin-bezel screens for video walls also gives users the flexibility to be more creative when designing video walls,” said Jean McLaughlin, senior product line manager for NEC Display Solutions. “We have some customers that are doing a 1x10 tower in a portrait mode. We also have someone who has done stair-step arrangement.”
Outside of LCD video walls, digital signage users have had a limited number of options for these high-impact displays, each of which has several downfalls when compared to thin-bezel video walls.
