BEAVERTON — Planar Systems Inc. announced the first shipments of its new line of Clarity rear-projection displays, the SP Series.
The new SP rear-projection Digital Light Processing (DLP) cubes, which utilize state of the art DLP technology from Texas Instruments, are available in either "open system" or "integrated system" configurations and come in diagonal sizes of 50-inch (c50SP/c50SPi), 67-inch (c67SP/c67SPi), and widescreen 70-inch (c70SPw/c70SPwi). Each of the SP displays supports Planar's Set It and Forget It (SiFi) technology that automates the continuous operation of Clarity cubes at peak performance.
The c50SP and c67SP offer 4:3 aspect ratio and SXGA+ (1400x1050) resolution, while the c70SPw delivers widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio and full HD (1920x1080) resolution. SiFi Auto Color Balance and Redundant Lamp Systems are supported in all the SP models and dramatically reduce the time and expertise required to maintain a fully functioning and optimally balanced video wall of multiple rear projection cubes.
With SiFi Auto Color Balance, each SP cube in a wall simultaneously measures the brightness and color of the actual light directed at the screen. This information is collected and compared and then the optimal setting is directed to each cube in order to automatically create a rebalanced wall. All this happens in about 30 seconds, depending on the size of the wall and can be initiated as scheduled, on command or based on an event.
