Commercial displays
Built for sixteen or twenty-four hours a day, with the control ports and warranty a consumer television does not have.
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Screens and Hardware
Displays specified around your environment, not around a brand we happen to stock. Viewing distance sets the pitch; ambient light sets the brightness.
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What we build
Start from the catalogue
The commercial display range we quote from most often, with what each format is for and where it goes. Browse it here, or take the whole thing away as a PDF.
We do not have a brand to defend
A supplier who stocks one manufacturer will find a reason that manufacturer suits your room. We would rather specify from the room and tell you afterwards what it turned out to be, because the wrong screen in the right place is a problem you live with for five years.
In practice this means we regularly specify something cheaper than the customer expected. A coarser pixel pitch nobody will be close enough to notice. A standard display instead of a high-brightness one because the window faces south. Those recommendations cost us margin and they are the reason the network still looks right in year three.
The six measurements that decide everything
You can take most of these yourself with a tape measure before anyone visits, and they will change the specification more than any brand preference.
Furthest viewer
The furthest point someone will read the screen from. This single number drives more of the specification than anything else.
Smallest thing they must read
Text height wants to be roughly one two-hundredth of the viewing distance. That sets the minimum screen size for your content.
Closest viewer
For LED this sets the pixel pitch, and getting it wrong in either direction is expensive.
Light
Looked at during the brightest part of the day, not whenever the survey happened to be booked.
Orientation and shape
Decided by the content, then checked against what the display is actually rated for.
Power, network and service access
At the exact position. In an older building this is regularly the largest single cost in the job.
Things we will talk you out of
- A fine pixel pitch in a room where nobody gets within eight metres of the wall
- A consumer television anywhere a customer will see it, or anywhere portrait
- Filling a wall with screens before you know what will be on them
- An outdoor-rated enclosure for a position that is genuinely sheltered
- Interactive, when a well-designed screen that shows information on its own would do more
- A video wall, when three separate screens would carry three separate messages better
Questions people actually ask
Can we buy the screens ourselves and have you install them?
Yes, and we will give you a written specification to buy against. Be aware of what you take on: warranty claims, the wrong model arriving, and the gap that opens when a display fault becomes a conversation between two suppliers. Some customers are well set up for that and some are not, and we will say which we think you are.
What brands do you use?
Whichever suits the room. We work with the established commercial display and LED manufacturers and we will name what we are proposing, with the reasoning, in the quote. If you have a preferred brand for support or procurement reasons we will work to it, or tell you plainly where it will not do the job.
How long should a commercial display last?
In normal indoor use, comfortably several years, and the panel is rarely first to date. Software support for a built-in player usually ends sooner than the screen fails, which is why we plan a refresh path and hold spares for larger networks rather than treating each failure as an emergency.
Do you hold spares?
For managed networks, yes, and it is part of how we size the service. A spare display and player held for a group of sites costs far less than a busy screen being dark for the length of a supplier lead time, which on some models is measured in months.
Start a project
Tell us about the space. We will tell you what belongs in it.
A first conversation costs you nothing and usually takes twenty minutes. Bring a photo of the wall and a rough idea of what you want it to do.
- A written specification you can price against anyone
- The platform we would run, named before you sign
- Hardware and content costed separately, so you can see both
- No obligation, and no pressure to buy screens you do not need