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The Holy Grail of LED cinema: World's largest screen is the size of 700 TVs and packs 44 million pixels

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  • GDC Technology will install the world's largest cinema LED screen, a 30 m x 16 m curved wall-to-wall display in the Cinemagnum auditorium of Nuremberg's Cinecittà
  • The display will offer a native 8K+ resolution, leveraging GDC's Tricorne Premium LED technology to ensure the wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling display offers a state-of-the-art experience to German cinemagoers
  • Biggest upgrade is in the audio department: the micro-perforated, acoustically transparent panel design which puts speakers behind the LED wall, solving dialogue-localization problem

Hong Kong-based GDC Technology has been tasked with installing the world's largest LED cinema display in the Cinemagnum auditorium of the Cinecittà multiplex in Nuremberg, Germany.

The display, which offers a native 8K+ resolution, leverages GDC's Tricorne Premium LED technology to deliver a sharp image. With 44.1 million pixels, thanks to its use of Tricorne Premium LEDs with a 3.3mm pixel pitch, it offers over 33% more screen real estate than a traditional 8K display.

It is also considerably larger than most LED TVs, effectively offering the same surface area as ~700 50-inch or smaller models found in most households.

A massive audio-visual upgrade

While high-resolution LED displays significantly overhaul one's cinema experience, one could argue that GDC's largest cinema LED display deployment to date has a feature that sets it apart from legacy options: sound.

Cinema LED is not entirely a new concept; it has seen multiple entrants, including Samsung's Onyx, but GDC's achievement goes far beyond Samsung's approach of using a solid wall of emitters, which had immersion trade-offs.

GDC's Tricorne Premium LED incorporates micro-perforated LED panels that it describes as fully acoustically transparent, allowing stage speakers to be mounted directly behind the display, as in a traditional cinema, without compromising visual density or HDR performance.

“Perfect sound-from-picture synchronization and a wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling canvas have always been the holy grail of LED cinema," noted GDC Technology founder and chief executive, Man Nang Chong.

"Tricorne Premium LED’s proprietary micro-perforated technology finally achieves both – delivering a fully immersive visual experience without sacrificing a single decibel of audio fidelity."

Tricorne Premium LED is hardly untested technology, however; GDC claims to control as much as 70% of the industry's LED cinema business and has stated that the tech has already been deployed in 25 locations worldwide.

Germany already has the world's largest permanent traditional movie screen: The Traumpalast Multiplex in Leonberg, Germany, features the world's largest IMAX screen, measuring a mammoth 38.8 meters by 21 meters (127 feet by 69 feet) and covering 814.8 square meters.

With the completion of this installation this year, Germany will hold records for both the largest cinema screen overall and the largest LED cinema screen alike.



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