Press Room - 2000 Archive

Panoram REV4 Technology Expands Video Projection Horizons

Panoram's REV4 seamless tiled display technology delivers seamless edge blending for Digital Cinema

Anaheim, CA (June 16, 2000) Since 1993, Panoram Technologies has been pioneering the development of extreme-resolution display technologies through the use of arrayed projection systems. At the INFOCOMM 2000 Exhibitions, Panoram announces Panoram REV4, the latest evolution in its world-renowned, patented Video Panoram® edge-blending technology.

Originally previewed at INFOCOMM 99, the Panoram REV4 is now shipping and brings soft edge blending to a new generation of non-CRT projectors and formats, including LCD, DLP, DLV, ILA and D-ILA projectors. All these projectors feature digital crispness, immense brightness and vastly improved maintainability.

Especially important for Digital Cinema, the Panoram REV4 technology features are designed to handle the unique challenges posed by these new-generation projectors in seamless arrays, including digitally calibrated blending algorithms, automated color matching and a special "off-state" black level blending function to control the residual light emitted when a projector goes to black. At INFOCOMM 2000, panoram presented a three projector tiles display using Christie Digital projectors and running a theatrical scale video presentation created for the 1996 Olympics by Metavision Corp. a production house in Burbank, CA.
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"REV4 opens new applications for projector arrays," said Theo Mayer, President and CEO of Panoram Technologies, Inc. "Besides being a important tool for increasing the resolution of Digital Cinema projection, other applications include event media, expos, theme parks, concerts, theatrical performances, large meetings, trade shows, conferences, and, of course, high-brightness command and control environments."

Because many of the applications for this technology involve temporary exhibits, Panoram is also making the REV4 technology available in a rack-mounted unit, called the REV4 Rack, that can be rented along with an engineer to support the event. The rentable unit supports the staging company's own projectors, staging, sound, lighting, and video equipment and includes all the interfaces, switching, control and edge blending needed. It even includes a multichannel computer that can run seamless Macromedia Director files across the giant screen.