Notice how projection screens are getting smaller and smaller? Went to a Coldplay show where the screens were like -- are you kidding me? -- small. Enter the LED. Catalyst has been creeping higher and higher in our use of LED screens, but took the cake in October with a monstrous 360-degree screen center stage. Thought we were big-time until watching the AMA's on Sunday night: An LED wall. We have video designers now who won't even touch projected video. Give it seven years, and the video projector will be like the overhead projector in the church. Obsolete.
Isn't it amazing how something that's been around for so long - LEDs - used in a new way can be so amazing. I wonder what else is just under our disinterested nose and will come to the forefront in the near future.
Posted by: Chris Chowdhury | November 25, 2008 at 10:08 AM
but Coldplay had very little LED. The back wall was all projection and the balls were projection. The only LED products were some lighting elements. So projection still has a place in this world.
Posted by: Brian Pirkle | November 26, 2008 at 09:25 AM
It will be interesting to see how long it takes to get a viable portable option that is as robust as a collapsible screen and a projector.
I may be more in tuned to that because our church is in portable mode for the foreseeable future.
I ran graphics for a conference of 5,000 students this summer, and we did it in the round with 4 screens - a setup like the cylindrical LED's in that photo would have alleviated about a thousand of the headaches we had during the week from failed lamps, power supplies, etc, on the projectors.
Posted by: Ryan Tow | December 02, 2008 at 12:32 PM
hope you just saw kanye west's performance on snl...AMAZING use of LED...
Posted by: perrin | December 14, 2008 at 01:08 AM
hope you just saw kanye west's performance on snl...AMAZING use of LED...
Posted by: perrin | December 14, 2008 at 01:09 AM
hope you just saw kanye west's performance on snl...AMAZING use of LED...
Posted by: perrin | December 14, 2008 at 01:14 AM