Yup you heard that right. The video wall will be back and in an even better way. At Cedia this year a newly revamped Video Wall was shown at the C4 booth that made me drool and made me wonder why it wasn’t done this way in the first place.
For those of you new guys, or those not familiar with the video wall let me explain. A Video Wall is used in an environment where multiple displays are used to “on the fly” switch which display  is using which source. This is very common in theaters where 3 displays are used, sports rooms where 3 to 5 displays are used, and small sports bars. When i say on the fly switching i mean that if display 1 has Espn on, display 2 has Cnn on, and display 3 has Tnt on with the press of a button you can send any of the sources to any other screen and the audio will follow your main viewing screen.
The equipment required to pull this off is multiple displays, multiple sources, a video switch with enough inputs and outputs to handle all the displays and sources, and of course in this case a Control4 system.
So whats new in this incarnation of the Video Wall? Previously the Video Wall was set for 3 displays only. NOW the Video Wall will support 3, 5, and 7 screens. This broadens the spectrum of applications that can can now branch from residential installs to small digital signage applications.
I personally have missed the video wall since 2.0. It was a great option and i felt that a good handful of consumers lost some great functionality just to advance in technology. Well no worries now as we know it is coming back!
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September 28, 2010