- GDC Technology will install the world’s largest cinema LED screen, a 30m x 16m wall-to-wall curved screen in the Cinemagnum auditorium at the Cinecittà in Nuremberg
- The screen will offer a native 8K+ resolution, leveraging GDC’s Tricorne Premium LED technology to ensure the wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling screen delivers a cutting-edge experience for German moviegoers.
- The biggest improvement is in the audio department: the design of the micro-perforated, acoustically transparent panel that places the speakers behind the LED wall, solving the dialogue localization problem.
Hong Kong-based GDC Technology was commissioned to install the world’s largest LED cinema screen in the Cinemagnum auditorium at the Cinecittà multiplex in Nuremberg, Germany.
The screen, which offers a native 8K+ resolution, uses GDC’s Tricorne Premium LED technology to deliver a sharp image. With 44.1 million pixels, thanks to its use of Premium Tricorn LED with a pixel pitch of 3.3mm, it offers over 33% more screen real estate than a traditional 8K display.
It’s also considerably larger than most LED TVs, effectively offering the same real estate as the 700 or more 50-inch models found in most homes.
A massive AV upgrade
While high-resolution LED screens are dramatically revamping the cinematic experience, it could be argued that GDC’s largest cinema LED screen deployment to date has one feature that sets it apart from traditional options: sound.
LED cinema is not entirely a new concept; it saw several entrants, including Samsung’s Onyx, but GDC’s success story goes well beyond Samsung’s approach of using a solid wall of transmitters, which came with trade-offs when it came to immersion.
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 screen, as in a traditional cinema, without compromising visual density or HDR performance.
“Perfect synchronization of sound with picture and a floor-to-ceiling canvas have always been the holy grail of LED cinema,” said Man Nang Chong, founder and CEO of GDC Technology.
“Tricorne Premium LED’s exclusive micro-perforated technology finally achieves both: delivering a fully immersive visual experience without sacrificing a single decibel of audio fidelity. »
However, Tricorne Premium LED is not an untested technology; GDC claims to control up to 70% of the industry’s LED cinema business and said the technology has already been deployed in 25 locations worldwide.
Germany already has the largest permanent traditional cinema screen in the world: the Traumpalast Multiplex in Leonberg, Germany, has 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 the records for the largest cinema screen overall and the largest LED cinema screen.
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