Led Wallboard
Digital Signage at Bergen County Technical Schools
Posted on Thu, November 26, 2009
In my previous post about Bowie High School I talked about the advancement of LED tickers and digital signage in high schools. Here is another example of a financial services lab installed at Bergen County Technical Schools in New Jersey.
The new program capitalizes on the school’s proximity to New York City, the financial capital of the world, and strives to interest and prepare students for careers in the financial services industry. The curriculum touches upon topics common to commercial banking, investment banking, brokerage, trading and investment management. Learn more about their program by visiting their website.
Digital Signage Technology Tip: Video Wall verses LED Wallboard
Posted on Tue, December 15, 2009
Historically Financial Trading Floors and Business School Finance Labs have used large LED wallboards to post current market data and news. The LED wallboards provide long life, great viewing distances and you could easily build large walls out of them to create a focal point in any trading environment.
A couple of good photo examples can be seen at: PIMCO and University of Pittsburgh.
With advancements in LCD technology and the new ultra thin bezels, video walls have replaced these LED datawalls. For users still investigating the LED wallboard technology here are 5 things to investigate and compare to help make your decision:
Color - with a LED wallboard you get 3 colors (red, green, amber) verses with a video wall you get the full spectrum of color
Flexibility- with a LED wallboard it is alpha numeric meaning a fixed character height for letters and numbers and if you purchase a 16 line by 64 character display, that will always be your limit. The advantage of what you can dynamically do with a video wall is obvious.
Graphics - with a LED wallboard you are limited to alpha numeric characters, with the video wall you can show graphs, charts, animations, video and live TV
Lead time - LED wallboards are custom built to order normally taking 6 weeks or better to build. LCDs are in stock and can ship the same week.
Price - with all of that functionality you would expect the LCD video wall to be more expensive. Actually it is on average 20% to 25% more economical.
Overall LED wallboards are still a great technology, but they just can’t compete with the mass production of LCD screens and in the end price and flexibility will always win. If you want more information you can view a 10 minute video comparison of the technologies.
Rise Display Installation: Quinnipiac
Posted on Mon, January 18, 2010
A little over 6 years ago we installed 2 LED wallboards for the trading lab at Quinnipiac University. This past semester we worked with them to update the technology from the original 3 color LED displays to two banks of LCD screens set up in a 2x1 configuration allowing live market data to be spanned across both screens. The original LED displays allowed for showing simple graphics in three colors (red, green, and amber) while the new displays provide much greater resolution and the ability to show full motion video and the entire range of colors.
If you are currently using a LED wallboard take a moment to check out the short video we created comparing the technologies.
