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Planar Display Solutions: Actual Lineup and Features

Andy Wade
January 9, 2024

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Top-notch Planar display systems blend exceptional picture quality with creative innovations and cutting-edge quality to meet the specific requirements of each viewing application. These displays excel in everything from the biggest and highest quality LED and LCD video walls to the inconceivable transparent OLED, constantly on LCD digital signage, and frameless curved desktop monitors. They will carry out the task regardless of the visualization need.

Planar's LED Video Walls

Planar is an international leading provider of LED video wall systems, with thousands of landmark installations worldwide. They offer outstanding performance and commercial-grade LED displays featuring pixel pitches ranging from 0.6mm to 20mm. Anything from the best-resolution MicroLED video walls for cinematic and on-camera apps to the largest sports arena video panels and touch-based screens for collaborative spaces is available.

Planar DirectLight Ultra Series

Planar DirectLight Ultra Series LED video walls provide continuous, highly efficient, high-quality display capabilities with the sharpest pixel pitches ranging from 0.6 to 1.2 millimeters for critically important and refined applications. It features multiple display technology advances, including MicroLED, that work together for outstanding performance. It also boasts patented self-adjust aligning technology, which retains excellent visual quality over time. The Planar DirectLight Ultra Series displays have high-dynamic-range material, maximizing every pixel's visual quality. You can access this series starting from $240,000.

Planar Luminate Ultra Series

The Planar Luminate Ultra Series delivers an identical degree of visual detail to outdoor areas traditionally reserved for interior venues. Their narrow pixel pitch allows for pleasant viewing up to 7 feet away, and their high brightness of up to 3500 nit enables visibility even in direct sunshine. They are also ideal for interior locations with a lot of light. The MicroLED 1.2mm variant has the industry's best outdoor pixel pitch. In addition, this series is weatherproof and has visual enhancement. With 45° curved edges on display units and cabinets, video walls may wrap around 90° angles for innovative installations. You can access the series starting from $5000.

Touch-Based LED Video Walls

You can tailor select 

 for interaction using a bespoke touch interface and Planar ERO-LED when touchscreen features are necessary. Touch screens are available in 16:9 proportions, but the bespoke touch solution allows for a larger range of touch video wall sizes and designs. It includes 32-point touch and Planar ERO-LED protection. The touch-based LED video walls include the Planar DirectLight Ultra Series, Planar DirectLight Pro Series, Planar TVF Series, Planar UltraRes L Series, and Planar DirectLight X Series. These video walls come in starting from $240,000.

Touch-Based LED Video Walls

Planar UltraRes L Series

The Planar UltraRes L Series 136" High Definition (HD) comprehensive LED panel blends the Planar UltraRes family's simplicity and unparalleled processing with the prestigious Planar precise pixel pitch LED technology for conference rooms and schools. It has onboard processing, audio, and power from a single 110V cable, native multi-point touch, and numerous inputs that allow simultaneous access to a maximum of four media sources. You also get interactivity, which means access to a precise, embedded 10-point touch interface enabling many simultaneous users. The panel supports regular touch-based usage for in-room communication. You can get this model at approximately $38,000.

LCD Video Walls

Planar manufactures exceptional, prestigious LCD video walls featuring the industry's thinnest bezels, most versatile mounting solutions, and slimmest profiles. They give stunning visual material. The following are some LCD video wall solutions:

Clarity Matrix G3

The Clarity Matrix G3 comes with a 55" LCD video wall panel featuring a mosaic bezel width of 0.88 mm, which delivers a virtually seamless digital canvas, superb tiled graphic performance, prolonged operation, and takes up little space. Clarity Matrix G3's less weight allows for greater durability and simpler installation. Local dimming with user selection provides the best contrast ratio plus black-level consistency, resulting in brighter whites and deeper, consistent blacks. The Clarity Matrix G3 MX55M supports 24x7 performance and includes 700 nits of brightness, LED backlight technology, and Full HD resolution. It costs approximately $10,000.

Planar VM Series

The Planar VM series offers a 55" model. The Planar VM55MX-M2 is a 55-inch LCD video wall panel with a 0.88mm tiled bezel thickness and 700-nit brightness for digital signage solutions running 24/7. Thanks to the IPS panel design, this model boasts broad viewpoints and local dimming for improved contrast. The 4K@60Hz display and RS-232 and IR control pathway facilitate tiling for television walls up to 10x10. The Planar VM55MX-M2 integrates versatility with landscape or portrait mounting options and an integrated OPS slot. You can use it for various applications such as retail, hotels, lobbies, and museums, costing approximately $3500.

Planar Mosaic

Planar Mosaic Panoramic Video Walls include 22" square LCD tiles that you can install in any location relative to one another and at practically any angle individually. The Planar Salvador AD22 is a 22" screen tile with a true square aspect ratio of 1:1. It comes in at $3800.

Large Format LCD Displays: Precision in Every Pixel

Planar's large-format LCDs withstand the toughest situations, delivering excellent performance and reliability for professional applications such as digital signs, control rooms, study areas, and retail.

Large Format LCD Displays

Planar UltraRes P Series

Planar UltraRes P Series large format LCD panels with 4K video resolution and commercial-grade build are appropriate for uses that include dramatic digital signage to interactive meeting rooms. Watch a maximum of four sources simultaneously and get email notifications whenever an unusual occurrence happens. There are multi-point projected sensitive touch variants in addition to Planar ERO-LCD (Extended Ruggedness and Optics) glass protection options. The series is available in 49", 55", 65", 75", 85" & 98" sizes. You can enjoy this series with a small model costing up to $2500.

Planar UltraRes W Series

With its Front Row architecture, the Planar UltraRes W Series ultra-wide profile LCD panel is precisely scaled to accommodate the most common unified communications and digital collaboration systems. It has a 5K resolution plus an aspect ratio of 21:9, ideal for native cinematic movie playback. Its commercial-grade design ensures 24x7 dependability and remote surveillance provides email notifications in the case of an unforeseen incident. You can view two sources simultaneously thanks to a split layout or Picture-in-Picture. There is also a multi-point projection-sensitive touch variant and a planar ERO-LCD. This series comes in two models, the Planar URW105 and Planar URW105-ERO-T, which cost $20,000 to $25,000.

Innovative Offerings: Planar LookThru and Helium Series

Planar provides some innovative offerings with some exciting features. Here are two excellent choices:

Planar LookThru: Transparency Meets Display

Planar LookThru provides the LO552, a transparent screen that displays dynamic content on a clear face glass without requiring a backlight or enclosure. The Planar LookThru LO552's electronics box angles at a 90-degree angle to the screen glass. You may use the display in portrait and landscape orientations, and it may be table-mounted, ceiling-mounted, or tiled to form massive, attractive video wall arrays. Planar ERO-OLED technology with Corning Gorilla Glass is essential in the Planar LookThru LO552 for improved durability and optics. It comes in at $18,000.

Planar Helium Series: Touchscreen Excellence

Planar Helium Series high-definition resolution (1920x1080) LCD desktop screens use projected sensitive technology, allowing up to ten concurrent touch points. Select models include an elegant, simple to adjust, and ergonomically-friendly Helium Table Stand, which can be entirely flat or tilted up to 90 degrees for easily controllable user interaction in either portrait and landscape orientations, making them suitable for programmers and designers, business-savvy users, and retailers. They are affordable, and you can access them for $300.

Elevate your business with Planar Display Solutions!

Planar display products combine efficiency, innovative features, and great craft to meet the specific requirements of practically every application. From the biggest and highest quality LED and LCD wall displays to clear OLED, always-on LCD digital signage, and frameless curved computer monitors. Planar screens meet all visualization needs and are ideal for digital signage use. 

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