In areas such as stadiums, airports, stages, and shopping malls, giant LED screens are very suitable for displaying images or advertising. For audio-visual integrators or media companies, this article will provide you with a detailed introduction to giant LED screens, including types, advantages, and cost performance.
What is a Giant LED Screen?
A giant LED screen, or a jumbotron screen, refers to a large LED display. Its area ranges from several square meters to several hundred square meters, and is usually used in large spaces, which can simultaneously allow many viewers to watch. Many independent modules are joined together to form a giant LED screen. Its large size can easily draw people’s attention.
Types of Giant LED Screens
Classified By Shape
Rectangle Giant LED Screen
The rectangular giant LED screen is currently the most common shape available on the market. Compared with other shapes, the production and installation process is relatively mature, and you don’t need to specially customize its components.
Rectangular giant LED screens are used in many places, such as scoreboard displays in stadiums, advertising boards on highways, and information screens in airports. When you need it to play videos, you don’t need to cut the video shape files separately, either.
Cube Giant LED Screen
When you arrange four or six giant LED screens at right angles to each other, they form a cube LED display. If you enlarge the cube LED screen, the unique shape can serve as an artistic installation, better attracting people to stay.
Compared with the rectangular giant LED screen, the cube giant LED screen enables people from all directions to view the content on it, serving a larger audience. You can play different content on each side to increase its utilization rate.
Spherical Giant LED Screen
MSG Sphere is the largest spherical LED display in the world. Many people discussed it on social media, which brought huge exposure to the Msg company. You can also increase your visibility by building a spherical giant LED screen.
If you want to use the spherical giant LED screen as a visual display for your brand event or to showcase some celestial bodies in a science museum, it is an ideal choice. However, the spherical shape will cause the video it plays to distort. You must pre-process the video to correct this distortion.
Classified By Function
3D Giant LED Screen
The 3D LED screens do not directly display 3D content. It is composed of two mutually perpendicular LED screens. At the junction, you can choose a right angle or a curved surface. Through the special video content, when people view both screens simultaneously, they will form the illusion of 3D vision.
The larger the screen area is, the better the 3D effect will be. Compared with ordinary flat LED screens, the 3D giant LED screens have received significantly more attention. People are more willing to record videos and share them on social media.
Flexible Giant LED Screen
You can adjust the connection angle of the LED module to make the giant LED screen present a curved surface. You can also directly use the flexible LED screen as the LED module.
The flexible LED screens can be bent 360 degrees, allowing the giant LED screen to take on many shapes, such as curved, wavy, cylindrical, etc. Compared to flat screens, people are more likely to be deeply impressed by the curved LED screen.
If you want to install the giant LED screen on a certain building surface, the flexible LED screen can better fit the building’s shape.
Transparent Giant LED Screen
Some of the glass facades have a relatively low load, and there is a need for natural lighting. This makes the traditional giant LED screen no longer suitable, as it has an LED screen cabinet that is not only heavy but also completely blocks out sunlight.
At this point, you can choose to use the transparent LED screen. It can be combined to form a transparent giant LED screen. Its grid structure is lighter in weight and allows most of the light to pass through, without affecting the people’s view and lighting inside the glass.
You don’t need to worry about the grid structure affecting the picture quality, because its brightness can reach up to 12,000 nits. Even in a sunny outdoor environment, it can present a clear picture and vivid colors to the viewer.
Advantages of Giant LED Screens
High Luminance
For outdoor environments that are exposed to direct sunlight or indoor environments with bright lighting, the display screen must have sufficient brightness to be clearly visible. In this regard, the performance of the giant LED screen is significantly superior to that of the LCD screen and the projector.
LEDs can emit light directly without the need for additional backlighting panels or projection lamp beads. Its maximum brightness can reach 20,000 nits, which means it can operate stably at any time, in any weather condition, and in any environment, without making the picture appear dim.
High Resolution
The resolution of an LED screen refers to the total number of pixels on that LED surface. It is generally determined by two factors.
The first factor is the pixel pitch. The smaller the pixel pitch is, the more pixels can be accommodated in the same area, and the higher the resolution will be.
The second factor is size. When the pixel pitch is the same, a larger-sized LED screen can have more pixels and thus has a higher resolution.
The giant LED screen has a large size, so even though its pixel pitch might be relatively large, its resolution is still very high. This means that it can display detailed images and will not give viewers a visual experience similar to a mosaic. If you need to display highly accurate content on a giant LED screen, such as product details or some professional data, it can also handle it.
High Contrast Ratio
When the environmental light intensity remains constant, display the screen with white and black patterns, and calculate the brightness ratio. This is the method for testing contrast ratio. That is to say, the greater the difference in brightness between the brightest and darkest areas on a display screen, the higher the contrast ratio.
The LEDs on the giant LED screen are individually illuminated. When displaying bright images, the giant LED screen can achieve very high brightness. When it shows black, it can achieve a pure black effect by completely turning off the LEDs.
Meanwhile, the backlight panel required for the LCD screen to remain constantly illuminated, and the projection screen will reflect environmental light, both of which cannot achieve the same contrast ratio as giant LED screens. This means that under the same environmental light conditions, the giant LED screen image is the clearest, and the colors are the most vivid.
Wide Viewing Angle
The viewing angle of the giant LED screen can reach 160° horizontal/vertical. It can still maintain high brightness and vivid colors when the viewing angle is large. This means that the giant LED screen can serve a larger number of viewers.
When you use it as an advertisement board at the crossroads, pedestrians and vehicles coming from different directions can clearly see the content of the image, rather than a dim image. When you use it for the background in a stadium or stage, you can safely arrange seats at the edges of the venue, thereby increasing the utilization rate.
Flexible Size
The sizes of traditional LCD screens and projectors are limited, but for LED screens, there are no such restrictions. You can freely adjust the giant LED screen size by increasing or decreasing the LED modules.
Cost Performance of Giant LED Screens
Installation Cost
Apart from the giant LED screen itself, you also need to install a steel truss to provide support for it. You need to connect such a large display screen to a stable power source.
Different applications will lead to different installation priorities for the giant LED screen. If the giant LED screen is placed outdoors, you need to select an LED cabinet with a high protection level. If it is installed indoors, you need to consider whether the cooling fans will generate noise that disturbs the crowd. If its installation height is high, you need to add additional safety guard nets to prevent the LED modules from falling, and all these should be included in the budget for installation costs.
Maintenance Cost
Compared with other displays, the maintenance cost of the giant LED screen is lower. This is because the lifespan of LEDs is very long, and they can operate stably for a long time. You don’t need to replace them frequently. Furthermore, each LED module operates independently. If one of them fails, you don’t need to replace the entire screen; you only need to replace that specific faulty LED module.
FAQ
Which Shape of the Giant LED Screen is the Most Convenient for Maintenance and Expansion?
A rectangular giant LED screen. Its LED module and frame are both of standard design. You can easily replace or add the LED module at any time.
What are the Applications of the Cube Giant LED Screen?
You can place the cube giant LED screen in the lobby of the shopping center, with each side serving as an independent billboard. Or you can position it above the stage to enhance the visual effect of the performance. You can also place it at the airport to provide information for viewers in all directions.
How Can I Reduce the Maintenance Difficulty of the Spherical Giant LED Screen?
You can reserve maintenance passages both inside and outside the spherical giant LED screen to facilitate future maintenance.
Is the Contrast of the Giant LED Screen always Better When it is Higher?
No. When the contrast of the giant LED screen increases, the luminance will also rise. Excessive contrast can make viewers feel dazzled and make it difficult for them to discern the content of the image. You should determine the appropriate contrast based on its luminance.
How Can I Increase the Viewing Angle of the Giant LED Screen?
You can shape the giant LED screen into an outwardly bulging curved surface, which will enable viewers from wider angles to see the content.
Final Thoughts
JINGYLED is a globally leading supplier of LED displays. We have a professional engineering team that can provide you with a giant LED screen that meets the highest performance standards. Don’t hesitate to contact us and obtain customized services.
