What is an LED Video Wall?

LED stands for light-emitting diode, which is a semiconductor light source. You may see this technology referred to as “direct view LED.”

This type of flat-panel display consists of tiny lightbulbs that emit colored lights to create full-color pixels that produce an image. LED technology has become more affordable in the last few years, making it more accessible to a wide range of industries and applications.

Since LED panels don’t require bezels (essentially, the frame around the screen), you can tile them together to create a video wall of any size. The modular design means that your display can be the size of a typical TV or as big as a movie screen. They can also be curved, made into unique shapes or transparent.

Indoor vs. Outdoor LED Video Walls

One of the most impressive features of LED video walls is that they can be designed for indoor and outdoor applications.

Outdoor displays need to meet standard weather ratings, compete with the brightness of the sun and be more structurally sound than indoor displays. The audience for an outdoor display is usually further away than the audience for an indoor display, so they require a lower pixel density. Think of outdoor LED applications as displays on the sides of skyrise buildings in the downtown area of a city.

Indoor LED video walls are usually dimmer with more pixels per square inch (a high pixel density). It’s not uncommon for an outdoor display to be 10x brighter than its indoor counterpart. Since indoor displays are usually twice as bright as the average TV, this is incredibly bright!