Christie News Update – LW600 Expands Widescreen Projectors

Digital Factory Planning: Six Christie HD8K Projectors Show Factory Floors in 3D HD

A car manufacturer from Stuttgart in southern Germany, has trodden some innovative paths with their Digital Factory project. In their factory planning building, they have installed a digital planning room, in which specialists from all corporate divisions meet for interdisciplinary discussions on the construction and alteration of factory floors and production plants.

Everyone attending the meetings sits in front of the six by two meter panorama Power Wall. Six Christie HD8K projectors deliver three-dimensional images of factory floors via rear-projection. Through their 3D spectacles, they gain a detailed insight into planned buildings, parts or plants. Single buildings can be zoomed in on, or even visited by way of a virtual walk through of the future factory floors.

Digital Factory Planning means more than just an impressive 3D visualization. Virtual Reality is used here as a precise and fast tool with which all factory components can be represented and verified in one digital simulation.

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Christie expands family of widescreen projectors with new Christie LW600

Christie has set a benchmark for the broadest range of high performance widescreen projection technology with the premiere of the new Christie LW600 digital projector at the National Association of Broadcasters Conference (NAB) in Las Vegas, NV.

The Christie LW600 complements the company’s family of widescreen format projectors with a cost effective, high brightness 3LCD solution that can be twin stacked to double the brightness. This new Wide-XGA projector shines brightly at 6,000 ANSI lumens and 2000:1 contrast ratio, and boasts a suite of 12 optional lenses. It also features high quality 10-bit image processing and compatibility with most computer and video sources including HD formats up to 1080p.

The Christie LW600 is ideal for today’s market of WXGA laptops and PC’s that now encompass not only standard data presentations, but widescreen HD formats. With the growing trend toward Wide-XGA format, the need to display this native resolution is becoming more important for today’s applications, notes Frank Anzures, product manager, Business Products, Christie.

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