LED screens History, well information

[sleepytom]

Uwho?

 

It would be more accurate to say "NASDAQ and U2 were early adopters of large LED screen technology" - they had bugger all to do with developing the products themselves.

 

Google JUMBOTRON - this will tell you a lot more than googling "led screen history" which will mostly be about flatscreen tvs.

 

In brief Jumbotron was a Sony product which pre-dated LED screens - it used a matrix of CRT tubes to enable large format display of fairly low resolution full colour images, it was a progression of electronic scoreboard technology but it paved the way for video display on such screens.

 

It is questionable if the development of the use of LED screens in TV sets has improved quality of anything at all. In fact it has been observed that the quality of a live TV show is inversely proportional to the number of LEDs used in its set. (Bob's Law - named after an LED tech who was on Xfactor live)

[musht]

Uwho?

 

It would be more accurate to say "NASDAQ and U2 were early adopters of large LED screen technology" - they had bugger all to do with developing the products themselves.

 

 

True, they had the money to literally burn when LED screens were very new.

 

Prior to them the company at Plasa in 98 or 99 with what at the time was getting pitched as RGB scoreboard technology, pitch was 50mm or someat, even then aimed only at the biggest of the big stadiums.

 

Any mention of LEDs history should give credit to Shuji Nakamura who developed practical blue, true green and white LEDs in the late nineties.

[Ken Coker]

Well, I'd imagine that you'd probably want to put image presentation in context - so Giesekam's book might be good: http://goo.gl/cjjN3

Or you could search for Graham Walne's book on projection.

Or you could try:

 

Videowalls : the book of the big electronic image - Robert Simpson. 2nd ed. Oxford : Focal Press, 1997. - 0240515056

 

The library is that big tall building on the left that no one goes in - oh, other than to eat their lunch and talk loudly on their mobile phones.

 

KC

[kitlane]

'The Art of Projection' might be another good source for the history of large scale image presentation. http://goo.gl/0V91y

[kitlane]

This is the book by Graham Walne that Ken mentioned. I bought my copy for considerable less from ebay a few years ago.

[Smiffy]

As Musht says above...

 

U2 Popmart, Designed by Willie Williams (and possibly also Mark Fisher????) would be a very good starting point for looking at the genesis of LED Screen, and specifically Low Res LED Screen as a popular choice in Live Entertainment. Prior to Popmart, LED was not greatly used. As a starting point for Artists and Designers to understand the possibilities, then Popmart is certainly worth a look.

 

Cheers

 

Smiffy

[karlrichardcockram]

Uwho?

 

It would be more accurate to say "NASDAQ and U2 were early adopters of large LED screen technology" - they had bugger all to do with developing the products themselves.

 

Google JUMBOTRON - this will tell you a lot more than googling "led screen history" which will mostly be about flatscreen tvs.

 

In brief Jumbotron was a Sony product which pre-dated LED screens - it used a matrix of CRT tubes to enable large format display of fairly low resolution full colour images, it was a progression of electronic scoreboard technology but it paved the way for video display on such screens.

 

It is questionable if the development of the use of LED screens in TV sets has improved quality of anything at all. In fact it has been observed that the quality of a live TV show is inversely proportional to the number of LEDs used in its set. (Bob's Law - named after an LED tech who was on Xfactor live)

 

 

Uwho?

 

It would be more accurate to say "NASDAQ and U2 were early adopters of large LED screen technology" - they had bugger all to do with developing the products themselves.

 

 

True, they had the money to literally burn when LED screens were very new.

 

Prior to them the company at Plasa in 98 or 99 with what at the time was getting pitched as RGB scoreboard technology, pitch was 50mm or someat, even then aimed only at the biggest of the big stadiums.

 

Any mention of LEDs history should give credit to Shuji Nakamura who developed practical blue, true green and white LEDs in the late nineties.

 

 

Well, I'd imagine that you'd probably want to put image presentation in context - so Giesekam's book might be good: http://goo.gl/cjjN3

Or you could search for Graham Walne's book on projection.

Or you could try:

 

Videowalls : the book of the big electronic image - Robert Simpson. 2nd ed. Oxford : Focal Press, 1997. - 0240515056

 

The library is that big tall building on the left that no one goes in - oh, other than to eat their lunch and talk loudly on their mobile phones.

 

KC

 

 

'The Art of Projection' might be another good source for the history of large scale image presentation. http://goo.gl/0V91y

 

 

This is the book by Graham Walne that Ken mentioned. I bought my copy for considerable less from ebay a few years ago.

 

 

As Musht says above...

 

U2 Popmart, Designed by Willie Williams (and possibly also Mark Fisher????) would be a very good starting point for looking at the genesis of LED Screen, and specifically Low Res LED Screen as a popular choice in Live Entertainment. Prior to Popmart, LED was not greatly used. As a starting point for Artists and Designers to understand the possibilities, then Popmart is certainly worth a look.

 

Cheers

 

Smiffy

 

Thank you to all, big help thanks :D