Planar Announces LED-Illuminated Video Wall Displays

Planar has announced its Clarity™ LED Series rear-projection video wall displays, ideal for control room video walls that require 24/7 reliability & brilliant life-like images. The Clarity LED Series features superior video wall performance with a maintenance-free illumination system, up to eight times the life of traditional lamps.

Learn more about the Clarity LED Series & Planar video walls at:
http://www.planarcontrolroom.com/video-wall-displays/clarity-led-series

Runco launches QuantumColor™ projectors

Runco has added two revolutionary new projectors: the QuantumColor™ Q-750d and Q-750i, to its comprehensive line of the world’s finest home theater products.

You can learn more about the future of home theater projection at: www.HaveYouSeenTheQ.com.

Clarity Matrix – Now shipping

Introduced at Infocomm 2009, Planar has announced shipping of the Clarity™ Matrix - an LCD Video Wall System that makes the most of LCD technology’s slim profile and vibrant visual performance. The Clarity Matrix features 46" commercial-grade LCD panels with breakthrough “narrow bezel” technology and incorporates an industry-leading design that takes heat, complexity & unreliability from behind the LCD panel to a centrally located, accessible rack-mount system.

Matrix features:

• 7.3mm image-to-image gap


• Shallowest wall-to-panel depth (4.5") in the industry


• Precision panel alignment via Planar's EasyAxis mounting system


• Reliable operation & simplified maintenance as a result of a distributed architecture


• Redundant power supply

Clarity Matrix is designed for control room, public venue & digital signage applications that require a thin profile video wall, with uninterrupted operation. Learn more at http://www.planarcontrolroom.com/lcd-displays/clarity-matrix/

Touch Screen LCDs for Interactive Health Care Systems

ScriptRx has just selected our Planar PT resistive touch screens for their interactive health care systems. ScriptRx has developed an electronic workflow that helps hospitals and clinic administrators handle the patient discharge process more quickly and easily, benefiting both the patients and the hospitals. More than 5,000 practitioners in more than 200 facilities across 32 states use a ScriptRx system with Planar PT touch screens. ScriptRx headquarters is in West Palm Beach, FL and an article about this solution for health care providers appeared in CRN. A case study about the ScriptRX electronic patient discharge system and information about Planar's resistive touch screen products are is available at www.planartouch.com.

Multiple monitors: They are not just a wish list item

Christopher Null of the blog "The Working Guy" had a great entry:

Two monitors = 44 percent increase in productivity

He writes about "...the New York Times which cites research that -- on certain text-editing tasks -- users were 44 percent faster using two 20-inch monitors instead of a single 18-inch screen."

See the original NYT story titled Boss, I Need a Bigger Screen. For Work Efficiency, of Course.

We've seen this for years. Multiple monitors are like adding a room on your house: the add more floor to stretch out in and more space to work in. The efficiencies can be seen in adding a second monitor to a laptop or 2 or more monitors to a desktop computer. The extra virtual room will increase your productivity simply in the fact that you don't have to keep using the mouse or keyboard to get back to the other three projects you are working on at the same time.

And don't forget the interruptions for Instant Message chats, incoming mail notices, and the screen space used by toolboxes, tool palettes, task bars and docks.

Xscreen is reaching out

It looks like the reception to our Xscreen line of products has been really positive. The people who have had a chance to get in front of the screen and see it for themselves have been really impressed. AVing has a nice write up.

It seems that some people aren't quite understanding that this is a screen that is supposed to be used with a projector. There's an impression out there that the Xscreen itself is producing the image. So let's be clear: the Xscreen is a projection screen that makes the image from a projector look great, even in regular lighting.

A glowing review of our new products

The fine folks over at CRN magazine recently noted:

Planar Systems does displays right. Not only do they have more than 20 years of display expertise and experience, but they understand the target market and customer applications, as well as trends from the supply side. Recently, the company released a new line of LCD monitors, which will be available with a QuadStand base for resistance-free height, tilt, swivel and pivot adjustments. The new line of monitors offers versatile viewing angles and more than five inches of height adjustment so business professionals can easily configure the position of the monitors for ideal viewing.

Man, that sure was nice of them. The whole review is quite long, but that first paragraph makes us proud. But come on guys, would it kill you to put a link to the PL line pages?