pix2o
2009-09-03 17:43:25.907359+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
One of our neighbors has been involved in a startup that he's been close-lipped about, but they've taken off the wraps and last night we went to their first open house. The company is pix2o, and they make LED panel displays, on the scale that you'd use in a stadium or big touring concert show.
They had a 1 square meter roll-up panel (they're built in 1 meter long 6 pixel high bars, one of the ideas being that you could put these things on rolls in a truck as you move your show around) last night, I think he said that at full brightness all white it pulled over 600 watts, which when they turned it all the way up, at LED efficiencies, made it painfully bright, at least in the indoor office environment. They claim it's very readable in sunlight at 25%.
They're looking for investors, but they've got a fab factory that's making panels, in the U.S., and though they're still tuning some of the video delivery bits of the pipeline could also deliver to someone who wanted an extremely bright big display. Know anybody who's setting up a touring concert or show that wants to put out some serious pixels?