Barco LED Tiles and Projectors Animate Chinese Spring Festival Backdrop
Source/Type:  LIGHTimes Online - News - Staff reports

Author: LIGHTimes News Staff

March 2, 2010... This years Chinese Spring Festival, a gala event is broadcast annually on the eve of Chinese New Year by state-run China Central Television (CCTV), reportedly captured 96 percent of the Chinese television view audience on the mainland. The audience of 700 million-plus viewers worldwide, included large numbers of people watching the show live via the internet. The CCTV Spring Festival Gala has grown into a genuine cultural phenomenon since its inception in 1982. It runs more than four hours and features a colorful assortment of entertainment, including pop songs, dances, crosstalk, stage comedies and drama, acrobatics and other folk arts.

This year CCTV deployed a high definition LED backdrop as the show's centerpiece. The enormous LED backdrop, measuring 18 x 9 meters, has a physical resolution up to 2952 x 1440 pixels. It utilizes 820 Barco ILite 6BK tiles. Barco contends that it is the largest indoor LED display in China today. The ILite 6 BK is a 6mm black LED display with excellent contrast and modular design that allows displays of nearly any shape and size to be built. Additionally, four Barco FLM HD20, the 20,000 lumens native HD projectors, were deployed on stage. Barco News Release

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