LG's new Miraclass LED 4K screen is likely to eventually bid farewell to projectors in smaller cinemas.
The new LED technology of the South Korean tech giant is massive enough to cater to some theaters.
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LG's New Miraclass LED Screen
In this day and age, TVs at home have grown larger, with some nearly filling an entire wall, making it seem like a mini-cinema.
But houses are mostly far from the sheer size of cinemas. So the latter comes with projectors to cover the giant screen needed in theaters.
According to Gizmodo, projectors remain the best choice for filling up the massive walls in cinemas. However, for it to work, it is a bit more complex compared to turning on a TV at home.
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LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 09: Attendees watch a bank of monitors at the LG Electronics booth at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center January 9, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The tech news outlet notes that the high-intensity lighting of cinematic projectors emits immense amounts of heat.
To address the heat, it requires a good cooling system to keep it running for a long time But its cooling produces a loud noise. Thus, these projectors are hidden in a room on top of these theaters.
The separate room could have been used for additional seating. However, projectors precisely require a reliable cooling system.
All that said, it looks like LG seeks to change just that, starting with smaller cinemas.
The South Korean tech giant recently introduced its all-new LG Miraclass cinematic display, which instead of using a projector uses LED, the same technology on TVs and smartphones these days.
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How Does it Work?
Unlike TVs at home, the Miraclass comes with multiple smaller panels, which are attached to create a giant screen. To make it seamless, each panel provides an edge-to-edge self-emissive technology to hide the edges of each smaller LED screen.
LG notes on its website that the self-emissive LEDs of the Miraclass offer a "bright and brilliant picture quality." At the same time, it also ditched the "corner dimming" or any "image distortion."
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A logo sits illumintated outside the LG booth on day 2 of the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2019 on February 26, 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. The annual Mobile World Congress hosts some of the world's largest communications companies, with many unveiling their latest phones.
It supports up to 300 nits of brightness, but users could adjust it to lower options. It offers a minimum of 48 nits, 100 to 130 nits, and 260 nits, besides the brightness option. On top of that, it also comes with a stunning 4K resolution.
Gizmodo reports that the LG Miraclass LED has started taking over some cinemas in Europe. And later on, the South Korean firm plans to bring it to theaters in other parts of the world, including regions like North America and Asia. So it might not take long before it arrives in the US.
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