How to choose the right screen…

Small - up to 55"

Screens up to this size are the go-to option for smaller meeting and teaching spaces up to approx 4m deep. Social distancing has ended shoulder-to-shoulder room layouts, so using the largest size possible lets users spread out while retaining their full engagement.

This size category is a mass market for digital signage throughout built environments.

The products are known as ‘flat panel displays’ (LED-illuminated LCD panels), commodity items available from distributors and resellers. For serious content display use 350cd/m² (‘nit’) image luminance (or ‘brightness’) and for signage opt for 500cd/m².

Always ensure the screen has an anti-reflective matt surface - and ALWAYS use professional-grade displays. Using domestic grade screens, displays - or even TVs (Heaven forbid) - you risk reliability and control issues that can end up costing you more than the most expensive display option in the long run. 

Medium - up to 98"

The volume market for meeting and small teaching spaces up to around 7m deep. 

Up to 90”, use flat panel displays. Again, for serious content applications, use 350cd/m² image luminance (‘brightness’) and  500cd/m²  for signage applications. It’s vital to choose screens with anti-reflective matt surfaces, with your own eyes - and ALWAYS use professional-grade displays.

Above 90” it’s better - and cheaper - to use projection. But it MUST only be projection done properly. This means using ALR (ambient light rejecting) screen technology coupled with laser projectors. Avoid yesterday’s error of using matt white screens which guarantee poor results in high ambient light and waste the money spent on the projector.

Go straight to our Complete Laser Displays: guaranteed to deliver standards-exceeding image quality at a fraction of the price of flat panels.

Large - 100"-120"

Displays for medium/large meeting rooms and small/medium teaching spaces - from approx 7m deep. Projection is the only effective technology here - but only if executed properly.

Our VDL Digital Canvas has unlocked this important category, providing an all in one large screen optical projection system based on AVIXA AV standards for guaranteed image quality at ANY size giving you and your client a complete display that can exceed all relevant global AV standards.

FOR ROOMS WITH LOW CEILINGS

From these sizes, if you plan to locate the bottom of the image around the standard 1.2m from floor level, you can start to bump up against the ceiling! In these cases, set the top of the image up to 10cm from the ceiling and accept the lower ‘baseline’. The top priority is that the image is big enough for the farthest viewers - always.

Extra-Large - 130" to any size

Displays for large spaces. Here, we’re back to two main technologies where choices are high stakes and you risk expensive non-retrievable mistakes.

If you’re presenting serious content, such as teaching, business meetings, presentations, then projection is the only choice - but it must be done properly.