Video Wall Info

Beginner’s Guides – CRT Cubes Before you get started planning your vintage video wall using our 28” CRT cubes, have a look through this guide which will give you a better understanding of what they are and how they work, and how your design choices are affected by the various special features of these retro looking video screens. WHAT IS.. Read more

Tiled vs. Spanned Images Once you have decided on the configuration of your video wall, you will need to think about how you want your video content to display on it. There are two main options of how to display video content on a video wall; using tiled video or spanned video. TILED VIDEO WALL Tiled videos will look exactly.. Read more

Live vs. Standalone Video Playback Once your video wall is up and running, you will need to choose how much control you want to have over the video that’s being played on it. For CRT videos being played in a gallery, for instance, you will probably want the video to play on a loop indefinitely, whereas, on the set of.. Read more

A Guide to Producing Video Content for CRT Walls Our video walls are retro, analogue video systems, and so for many video content producers, making video content for them will be like stepping back in time, sometimes to before when they were born! So we’ve put this guide together to help advise for most situations how to create video content.. Read more

Video Wall Shapes and Sizes We can make video walls out of CRTs in almost any configuration you can imagine. The main limiting factors are height (it is rare that we would make a video wall higher than 6 screens high) and weight: each screen weighs 42-58kg; so large walls can only be built on surfaces strong enough to hold.. Read more

CRTs, TVs, Monitors, Cubes & Flatscreens – What’s the difference? A glossary. A lot of people get confused by the difference between the various types of video display equipment we use and their terminology, so here’s an explainer of each technology type. CRTs CRT stands for Cathode Ray Tube. It is a big heavy glass tube which fires photons at.. Read more

An Introduction to Brightsign Media Players We stock dozens of brightsign media players which we use regularly for our CRT video wall installations. Small and reliable, they are a great solution for making all sorts of advanced things happen with video walls, though they do have a few limitations. Let’s take a look at what they can and can’t do.. Read more