Leyard Europe announced its Planar DirectLight Essential Series, a line of fine pixel pitch LED video walls delivering incredible visual performance for indoor environments with abundant ambient light.
This latest line of fine pixel pitch LED video walls introduces a solution that is well-suited for budget-conscious customers who require high-quality imagery, strengthening the DirectLight family’s position of delivering the finest visual performance.
The addition of the DirectLight Essential Series rounds out the DirectLight family, presenting customers with a wider range of high-performance ultra-fine pitch LED video walls for indoor applications.
The DirectLight Essential Series offers 27-inch cabinets available in 0.7, 0.9, 1.2 and 1.5mm pixel pitches and presents deeper blacks and sharper visuals with a 30,000:1 contrast ratio and high refresh rate of 3,840Hz. It is compatible with both the WallDirector Video Controller and LED controllers from ColorLight.
Designed with Chip-on-Board (COB) LED technology, DirectLight Essential Series video wall displays offer high pixel density, energy efficiency, and exceptional durability, making them ideal for high-traffic environments such as lobbies, retail spaces, hospitality venues, conference rooms, classrooms, and regional broadcast studios.
Its high durability also makes the solution well-suited for interactive touch applications.
“We’re very proud to add COB technology to the DirectLight family of leading-edge LED solutions for the first time,” said Robert Detwiler, senior director of product management at Planar.
“This significant addition provides our customers with the benefit of COB with lower cost, added durability and vibrant imagery, while also stepping up the performance to be a next level COB that delivers improved visuals and brightness to power performance to further diversify the flagship DirectLight family.”
DirectLight Essential Series customers also benefit from an LED sorting process that pairs only uniform LEDs together to ensure superior performance as well as a reduction in energy requirements.
The solution also features a proprietary driver integrated circuit (IC) designed for COB technology. Specially built to mitigate issues related to brightness and colour uniformity, the best-in-class driver IC precisely controls power and data to each COB LED. With the driver IC, LEDs are tested at the wafer level to meet brightness, power, and colour parameters.
The DirectLight Essential Series reinforces the company’s commitment to making LED more accessible and easier to deploy. In addition to featuring front access for quick installation and hassle-free service, the innovative solution offers popular DirectLight Essential Complete display configurations.
Available in 109-inch diagonal Full HD, 136-inch diagonal Full HD and 163-inch diagonal 4K sizes, DirectLight Essential Complete pre-configured LED video walls reduce the time, cost and complexity of designing and installing video walls.
Planar DirectLight Essential Complete customers are equipped with everything needed for effective deployment, including cables, trim, wall mounts, spare modules, as well as a video controller and remote control, in addition to the LED display cabinets.
The new LED video walls also support remote monitoring with the WallDirector Cloud web-based monitoring application. This means DirectLight Essential Series customers can remotely manage the overall performance of the display by monitoring system health and incidents and evaluating and troubleshooting alerts.
The DirectLight Essential Series will begin shipping in Q3 2025 and will be shown for the first time on the Planar Booth #1926 at InfoComm 2025 in Orlando from June 11th to 13th.
