[Slightly OT] Eurovision backdrop screens

May 14, 2007 3 Replies

Firstly, my apologies to our friends over the herring pond for the Euro/UK-centric nature of this post (although I'm sure you have similar things in the US).



Watching the Eurovision Song contest on Saturday night, I was impressed by the LED displays on both the backdrop and stage.



What sort of processing is involved in these massive LED screens? Just getting them to sync must be a mammoth task. Do they make use of the commercial chips from Maxim et al, or is there a more esoteric solution.



I'm not asking for any trade secrets - I'm just interested to hear the experiences from anyone who has been involved with this type of project.



Thanks, Mike


Mike G =ED=E0=EF=E8=F1=E0:

are you sure these were LED displays at all? I got the impression these were laser projectors

Best regards Tsvetan

PCB prototypes for $26 at http://run.to/pcb (http://www.olimex.com/ pcb) Development boards for ARM, AVR, PIC, MAXQ2000 and MSP430 (http:// www.olimex.com/dev)

The screens were various products made by Barco and driven from several media servers called Hippotizer, which is just a powerful PC with some clever software. They would have been run from one of the GrandMA lighting control consoles running the show, via DMX512 either over ethernet or directly.

I thought it looked amazing, shame about thew music really.

Martin

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Monster stuff Fortunately I missed the the Eurosong contest (again)

martin

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