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Medialon Show Manager is providing automatic show
control for a project in the central business district
of Beijing, which consists of a nearly 65,000-square
foot video canopy with 14.5 million LEDs. Raised 82
feet above floor level, the canopy covers an open
circulation area forming part of a new building
development, "The Place." The canopy is used at night
and has a light background to allow it to act as a
surface for special lighting effects when it is not
showing images. In addition, a large vertical LED
screen is used conventionally during the day and shares
the same source and processing system.
The display was engineered by Opto Tech Corporation of
Taiwan with Electrosonic Ltd., UK the project
integrator. Medialon Show Manager controls a complement
of Electrosonic equipment, including five MS9300 High
Definition video players and two VECTOR image processors
which drive the vast video canopy.
The whole canopy can be considered as an array of five
XGA-equivalent displays working as one single display.
It can show eight simultaneous video feeds derived from
local cameras, a local video editing suite, off-air and
even gaming devices and phone cameras. It can also show
XGA images from local computer sources.
For the canopy’s "Big Show" the highest possible image
quality is achieved via five synchronized HD sources.
Shows are developed as special attractions running at
set times.
Medialon also controls a large, multi-channel audio
system, based on LCS disc recorders and LCS digital
mixing, and dynamic lighting controlled by a PEAR2004
console. All devices in the system are on a Gigabit
Ethernet network. |
