Apetito LED – An upgrade to video walls

Apetito LED – An upgrade to video walls

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BEFORE

21 Philips video wall displays were used to create a 3×3 screen and a 4×3 screen. Each screen was mounted onto a pop-out bracket and daisy chained with DVI cables. The content was controlled and updated remotely from a Windows media player running embed.

At the time of installation, video walls were by far the best solution available. Fast-forward a couple of years and this is not the case. LED screens are fast becoming, if not already, the go-to option for large displays thanks to many benefits, with some being listed below. The drastic drop in price is also a huge benefit and now in some cases makes LED cheaper than video walls, therefore being the most cost-effective solution.

AFTER

Absen A275 1.5mm pixel pitch panels were chosen to create a 6×6 screen and a 8×6 screen, where they are daisy chained with power and data. The dimensions of the new screens are almost an exact match using 84 LED panels.

After installing some additional hardware, each screen benefits from 4 inputs, PIP options and audio, which is all controlled from an easy to use touchscreen, running embed. The space can now be used to inform, educate, entertain and through video conferencing and casting hardware, arrange and hold meetings.
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Eclipse Digital Media digital signage solutions bezelless LED

BEZEL FREE

Even when using the slimmest bezel possible, each video wall display is still noticeable. LED benefits from a modular concept that fit together to offer a truly seamless canvas with no disruption to the content.

NO DISRUPTION

If, and when, a video wall display goes faulty you could potentially lose a large section or your screen. However, a pixel failure with LED is less catastrophic and usually goes unnoticed by the untrained eye.
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COLOUR REPRODUCTION

Over time, like any LCD display, the colours will fade and in a video wall become inconsistant. Thanks to batch production and intense testing, LED guarentees unifrom and accurate colour representation.

Other benefits and more information on LED can be found here.

Eclipse Digital Shortlisted for Two AV Technology Awards 2020

Eclipse Digital Shortlisted for Two AV Technology Awards 2020

Following a record breaking number of entries this year’s AV Technology Awards by Installation International, it’s been revealed that Eclipse Digital have been shortlisted for two awards.

  • Visitor Attraction Project of the Year – Eclipse Digital Media – Wembley Park, Bobby Moore Bridge Digital Transformation
  • Residential Project of the Year – Eclipse Digital Media – Tipi, Wembley Park

Eclipse Digital Media - Digital Signage and AV Solutions - Shortlisted for Two AV Technology Awards 2020

The 2020 awards are taking place in digital form this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 measures. The winners will be announced during Awards Week between 23rd and 25th June and will be featured in a special awards edition of Installation magazine in July.

There are some exceptional projects in both categories meaning it would be an extremely proud moment for Eclipse Digital to win either or both… we eagerly await the reveal in June.

Indoor LED Wall Nominated At The Install Awards

Indoor LED Wall Nominated At The Install Awards

Eclipse Digital Media are proud to present their LED Wall that has been nominated at this years Install Awards. It is one of six finalists in the Best Retail/DOOH Project category scheduled to be held on Thursday 29th June at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in Kensington, London.

This will be the 4th annual Install Awards where excellence across the entire pro-AV industry is recognised. The ceremony focuses on the best projects, and the people that make them happen, during the preceding 12 months. This years black tie event will consist of dinner and drinks followed by the awards presentation and ending with an after party all hosted by presenter and standup comedian, Jimmy McGhie.

“We are so proud to be nominated for this award alongside the other high quality projects. Alot of hard work has paid off and as you can see, the result looks fantastic.”

Colin Thody

Director, Eclipse Digital Media

Matalan Indoor LED

Working closely with Eclipse Digital Media, Matalan evaluated several solutions before deciding the LED Wall would deliver the big impact they were after.

The LED Wall consists of 28 Absen N4 Black LED Modules to create a solution that measured 4m x 2.3m. To control the cloud based software, embed signage, an Intel NUC with remote management was also installed.

“The launch went amazingly well. All parts of the project were well received and the screen in particular.”

Andrew Banks

Chief Operating Officer, Matalan

Install Awards

The 4th annual Install Awards, scheduled to take place at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in Kensington, London, is an annual ceremony to celebrate the excellence across the entire pro-AV industry. This year it will take place on Thursday 29th June and will be hosted by presenter and standup comedian, Jimmy McGhie. The Best Retail/DOOH Project category is looking for any installation in a retail environment that covers either, the worlds of retail or out-of-home technology.

    What the judges were looking for:

  • A high degree of integration between the different elements installed
  • Innovative problem-solving approaches
  • Elegant design – technical or aesthetic
  • The degree to which the client brief was met, or exceeded
  • Ease of maintenance/ ongoing support
  • Expansion capability/ futureproofing

We cant wait for the awards ceremony, wish us luck!

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Digital Signage & The Connected Meeting Room

Digital Signage & The Connected Meeting Room

The meeting room is an area of high importance. It’s the point of first impressions, the place of making or breaking of deals, and a garden of productivity.

The aim of this post is to showcase just some of the AV opportunities available to make your meeting room as productive and impressionable as possible. Here are some of our key ingredients…

Eclipse Digital Media Digital Signage Hotel Room Booking Solution

The Room-Sharking Repellant.

I’m sure most people can relate to the annoyance of either having no meeting rooms available or having someone linger outside and barge into your room mid-presentation. Room Booking software and meeting room displays combat this.

Room booking screens combat room-sharking allowing clear identification of free space from a distance. Green its free, red its booked. Certain Room Booking displays also offer external status LED’s that you can’t miss. The Reserva solution also offers on-the-fly booking via touchscreen.

Intelligent Room booking software allows two-way communication between not only the built-in online calendar, but can integrate with existing Office 365, Exchange, Scientia and Micros Opera accounts.

A Reserva summary display showing all up and coming meetings is a great addition for any reception or communal area.

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The Hybrid Display

Digital Signage and Presentation Display… at the same time. Your brand ethos can be reenforced through digital signage internal communications. Push the latest company news and achievements to staff and visitors.

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Plug your laptop or tablet via HDMI to present to present on the big screen. This set-up allows for the presentation to be contained in a chosen zone allowing for important additional content to be displayed at all times. Creating a live, interactive experience. Live TV or IPTV broadcasts can be implemented into your signage to create powerful, up-to-date information.

Eclipse Digital Media Digital Signage Hotel Meeting room solution

The Future of Whiteboards

Start with a blank canvas or draw, highlight and edit over presentations on the fly. Providing the ability to visually display and explore new ideas. Both CleverTouch and Samsung both offer premium interactive whiteboard solutions in a range of capability and sizes. 

Gone are the days of Easels and Flipcharts, were photos would need to be taken to distrubute the contents to participants. CleverTouch whiteboards allow documents, presentations and edits can be quickly shared via the whiteboards own email address.

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Simple just got more simple.

9 in 10 office workers experience technology-related stress in meetings. Embarking on the task to decipher how to connect your laptop to the main presentation display can be somewhat frustraiting without the right hardware or adaptors. This is why we’ve found Barco ClickShare, it just works. With the majority of devices supporting traditional USB 2.0, just plug in, click, and present. No software required.

For those without a USB port, a ClickShare app is avaliable to wirelessly stream from your device to the display. Certain ClickShare devices also support Apple’s AirPlay and Google Cast making streaming from MacOS, iOS and Chrome OS devices easier than ever.

Eclipse Digital Media Meeting Room Solution Barco Clickshare

If You’re Feeling Extravagant…

An Indoor LED or videowall is the way to go. Give your meeting room the power to ‘wow’ and leave your stakeholders or potential clients impressed. LED walls and Videowalls create an attention-grabbing centerpiece, ideal for displaying live data, statistics and social feeds. 

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Hopefully this post has provided some ideas and inspiration on some of the latest meeting room equiptment and how you could transform yours.

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Digital Signage Installation For National Grid & Costain

Digital Signage Installation For National Grid & Costain

Eclipse Digital Media recently carried out a digital signage installation at the National Grid project office for the, Costain run, tunnelling programme under London.

The eight-year contract was awarded to Costain by the National Grid and the main purpose of the project is to help meet increased energy flows across the city. Costain approached Eclipse Digital Media with an idea of showing the progress of the drilling in real time at the National Grid project office and Energy Education Centre.

Eclipse, working in conjunction with National Grid and Costain, designed a Digital Signage content package that would show the two drilling rigs working their way under london in real time using data from the TIM (Tunnel Information Management) software and Google Maps.

“Eclipse Digital have provided Costain, at London Tunnels, with a valuable tool for communicating live production and progress data to both our key project staff and our client. These electronic signage units, at various locations within London, keep everyone on the project informed of the current live data and this is proving to be a very efficient communication tool.

Eclipse Digital have provided a very professional, high level of service, which has included technical assistance, support and installation. We have no hesitation of recommending the services of Eclipse Digital to any potential new customer and would be happy to showcase our installation as an example of their work.”

Gordon Alexander, Administration Manager
Costain Ltd

Here is the system on site:

Eclipse Digital Media Costain National Grid London Tunnelling Project Digital Signage Installation Energy Education Centre
The National Grid – Energy Education Centre

Eclipse Digital Media Costain National Grid London Tunnelling Project Digital Signage Installation Project Office
National Grid – Costain Project Office

If you would like any information about the work we have carried out for Costain and the National Grid, please feel free to contact us.

Pabulum Trafalgar School Install

Pabulum contract catering provide catering services for a number of schools throughout the UK and have contracted Eclipse Digital Media to design and install a digital signage solution for Trafalgar School in Downton, with a view to rolling it out throughout their schools.

We have installed one publisher ONELAN box with a split signal to three screens (2 x 32″ display and 1 x 42″ display) within the canteen area of the school. We have also designed the layouts for the screens and provided training on how to use update the layouts.

The system we have installed for Pabulum will allow them to dynamically change the menu at the click of a button, schedule menu and design changes for different times of day and gives them the ability to easily promote their corporate social responsibility messages.

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