Video Walls Are Everywhere: What’s Changed?

More Affordable – There have always been businesses that would have loved to leverage a nice big video wall to display messages to customers, but simply couldn’t afford them. Instead they’d opt for a video projection, an analog display or no solution at all. Recently, however, manufacturers have launched extremely thin-bezel video wall solutions that are lower in price, hence opening up the product category to a new crop of customers. 

More Functional – The thin-bezel factor is critical, because if old-school video walls had a drawback, it was those thick lines between panels that broke up an otherwise impressive display. Manufacturers’ research-and-development groups have worked hard toward reducing those lines or bezels and the results are some super-thin options. After all, if video walls are to be pursued by more cost-conscious markets, these folks are only going to pay for them if they look great.

Of course, space is an issue for many as well, and the old video wall cubes required more real estate than most are willing to relinquish. New thin-bezel video walls offer a reduction in depth, so while an older video wall might have had to of been placed two or three feet away from a wall, with the new smaller-footprint video walls there’s no need to sacrifice space. 

Easier to Service — You might be thinking, why should a business or customer care if a video wall is easier to service? It’s simple. The easier it is to install and repair, the less time and energy it requires to maintain, meaning lower costs of service and ownership. The thinner panels have facilitated this. 

Previous-generation video walls were made of thick, heavy panels or cubes. It’s not difficult to imagine how hard it would be for a service team to remove a damaged panel, repair it and replace it. Now those panels are easier to remove, not just because they’re lighter, but because most manufacturers have created easy-access solutions for quickly tilting or removing panels to repair.