Planar has announced its Komodo Series of ultra-fine pitch, chip-on-board (COB) microLED video wall products, which the company says were developed to deliver high levels of performance and reliability for indoor applications.
“We are truly setting a new standard for visual excellence with the Planar Komodo Series,” says Sidney Rittenberg, chief executive officer at Planar. “Designed for the most demanding audiences, the Planar Komodo Series delivers a top-of-the-line video wall solution like nothing else available today. This is the first result of our partnership with Megapixel, and we are proud to be presenting the future of LED with another leader in the industry.”
Komodo Series LED Video Wall Panels Come in 0.7, 0.9 and 1.2 mm Pixel Pitches
Available in 0.7, 0.9 and 1.2 millimeter pixel pitches, the Planar Komodo Series is the new flagship of Planar’s fine pitch LED portfolio. The company points out the product line delivers high levels of image quality and reliable performance for discerning indoor applications. The new solution is capable of producing a DCI-p3 color gamut for professional-grade color reproduction and 1,000 nits of brightness to support dynamic image reproduction in a range of indoor environments.
The Planar Komodo Series is powered by Megapixel’s HELIOS LED Processing Platform to support cutting-edge video standards, and modular and flexible inputs to allow for a variety of system installations. Developed from the ground up by Planar and Megapixel, Planar Komodo Series features LED display cabinet electronics specifically designed to fully leverage the Megapixel platform.
Elaborating on the HELIOS platform, Planar notes the LED processing platform offers support for 8K inputs and outputs with a small one RU size. Featuring multiple advancements in video and color handling with high bandwidth architecture, the system can be used for applications as diverse as corporate settings, control rooms, video production and private cinema.
In addition to 100 Gbps ST2110 connectivity capabilities, a standard developed by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) to define professional media over an IP network, the Komodo Series offers an upgradable design to support future standards and specific customer needs.
Flagship COB Products Aim for Better microLED Video Wall Experience, Per Planar
According to Planar, its new flagship COB product family allows users to achieve more industry standard resolutions and formats compared to conventional LED platforms.
The Planar Komodo Series is designed to support the most in-demand formats, including 16:9 and 21:9. With the ability to build video walls from native Full HD and 4K to 8K and ultra-wide 5K, the flagship COB LED family delivers scalable, future-ready visual performance.
Through the use of COB technologies, Planar asserts the product line is able to deliver improved color accuracy, high pixel density, sharper imagery and deeper blacks. Customers, the company underscores, also benefit from the technology’s durability and energy efficiency.
In addition to an advanced manufacturing process that sorts and pairs only uniform LEDs together, eliminating abnormalities, the Planar Komodo Series uses an alternating LED orientation to produce improved viewing angles and color uniformity. This, the company suggests, helps ensure quality viewing experiences, while enhancing the inherent benefits of COB technology.
Planar Komodo Series Rounds Out COB Offerings
The launch of the Komodo Series follows Planar’s recently introduced DirectLight Essential Series of products, and the company says these product lines round out its series of COB solutions.
“With more COB LED displays appearing in the market, we wanted to offer customers a video wall solution that uplevels the performance currently available,” adds Robert Detwiler, senior director of product management at Planar. “The new Planar Komodo Series is our response. We are proud to bolster our selection of COB LED solutions with a high-end offering that is differentiated by an innovative alternating LED pattern that results in uncompromised visual performance, on top of the incredible power efficiency and durability users want in a COB LED display product.”
