- GDC Technology will install the world’s largest LED cinema screen, a 30m x 16m curved wall-to-wall screen in the Cinemagnum auditorium at Nuremberg’s CinecittÃ
- The screen will offer a native 8K+ resolution, leveraging GDC’s Premium Tricorne LED technology to ensure the wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling display delivers a cutting-edge experience to German moviegoers.
- The biggest improvement comes in the audio department: the micro-perforated, acoustically transparent panel design that places the speakers behind the LED wall, solving the dialogue localization problem.
Hong Kong-based GDC Technology has been tasked with installing the world’s largest LED movie screen in the Cinemagnum auditorium of the Cinecittà multiplex in Nuremberg, Germany.
The display, which offers a native resolution of 8K+, takes advantage of GDC’s Premium Tricorne LED technology to deliver a sharp image. With 44.1 million pixels, thanks to the use of Premium Tricorne LED with a pixel pitch of 3.3 mm, it offers more than 33% more screen real estate than a traditional 8K display.
It’s also considerably larger than most LED TVs, offering effectively the same surface area as ~700 50-inch or smaller models found in most homes.
A massive audiovisual improvement
While high-resolution LED screens significantly improve the movie experience, one could argue that GDC’s largest deployment of cinema LED screens to date has one feature that sets it apart from legacy options: sound.
Cinema LED is not a completely new concept; It has seen multiple entrants, including Samsung’s Onyx, but GDC’s achievement goes far beyond Samsung’s approach of using a solid wall of emitters, which had dip offsets.
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, like in a traditional cinema, without compromising visual density or HDR performance.
“Perfect synchronization of sound from image and a wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling canvas has always been the holy grail of LED cinema,” said GDC Technology founder and CEO Man Nang Chong.
“Tricorne Premium LED’s patented micro-perforated technology finally does both: delivering a fully immersive visual experience without sacrificing a single decibel of audio fidelity.”
However, Tricorne Premium LED is not an unproven technology; GDC claims to control up to 70% of the industry’s LED cinema business and has stated that the technology has already been deployed in 25 locations worldwide.
Germany already has the world’s largest permanent traditional movie screen: the Traumpalast Multiplex in Leonberg, Germany, features the world’s largest IMAX screen, measuring 38.8 meters by 21 meters (127 feet by 69 feet) and covering 814.8 square meters.
With the completion of this facility this year, Germany will hold records for both the largest overall movie screen and the largest LED movie screen.
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