Inside skinny on an outdoor display
If you want an outdoor display screen, you face a number of unique obstacles not encountered indoors.
The team at DIB Audiovisual are pleased to share the inside skinny on a recent project where we installed screen both indoors and outdoors for St Michael’s Grammar School.
The first challenge is light. No surprise there is a lot of it outdoors. To compensate. you need to choose a very bright screen so it will still be visible, even in bright ambient light.
We recommended a Samsung 55″ Full Outdoor rated display, complete with a custom-fabricated outdoor-rated bracket to ensure the display didn’t fall off through simple rusting of a cheap mount in the future. This display has a super high brightness of 2500 Nit (typical indoor displays approx 350 Nit).
Outdoor Display
The display is also optimised for polarised and normal glass wear as worn by people outdoors and features a toughened 5mm glass front design to withstand a range of impacts including limited vandalism attempts. Being exposed to a wide range of temperatures good quality outdoor displays feature active cooling systems to provide for operation range between sub-zero and high 50c temperatures.
Inside the school, we installed displays in a number of open spaces for signage and some combined learning and signage spaces (Samsungs QET range were generally used). In St Michael’s instance, they are making use of MagicInfo lite and so the Samsung screens chosen allowed for this.
Consideration was given in dual-purpose areas for local inputs such as Vivi and Apple TV as well as local HDMI and Magic Info Lite, all controllable via a simple wall controller. Open spaces were complimented with JBL soundbar technology to provide for a neat aesthetic and functional user experience.
So that is the inside skinny on an outdoor display.
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