2 weeks Ago By AV Magazine
Six Samsung 4K Onyx cinema LED displays have been installed during a redevelopment of the Pathé Palace theatre in Paris. The luxury cinema, which is housed in an art deco building constructed in the 1920s, reopened in August following a five-year renovation by Italian architect Renzo Piano. The four 10 metre-wide and two 5 metre-wide screens offer detail-rich content, with a wide colour gamut that provides consistent representation across the displays.
As the world’s first Digital Cinema Initiatives-certified cinema LED display for theatrical exhibition, the self-lit Samsung Onyx screens produce HDR images with clear blacks and contrasts. Photo: Joan Bracco There are fewer than 200 cinemas in the world using cinema LEDs and the Onyx screens offer a luminance up to 300 nits – more than six times brighter than typical film projectors. Samsung has also installed a 5.
4m-high by 9.6m wide Samsung The Wall in the main lobby of the Pathé Palace. The display's Micro AI processor analyses every second of footage instantly, upscaling up to 8K resolution and optimising picture quality for less visual noise.
The company's Smart Signage (QMC series), meanwhile, displays schedules and movie trailers in the theatre's lobby, while at the entrance to each theatre room, a Samsung Stretched Display (SH37C model) in a 16:4.5 ratio has been installed. Samsung Electronics has previously installed Onyx LED screens at the Pathé Beaugrenelle in Paris and Pathé Bellecour in Lyon, while 200 5K ViewFinity S9 monitors and a Samsung The Wall have recently been fitted in Pathé's headquarters.
Menno van den Berg, president of Samsung Electronics France, said: “These six cutting-edge Samsung Onyx LED screens juxtapose brilliantly against the historic cinema, blending the classic with the modern to give moviegoers a truly unique experience. "The stunning visual quality that these displays provide will engage the audience on another level and do full justice to each film-makers’ vision.” Jacques Durand, Pathé Group's chief information officer, said: “Films are most powerful when they fully immerse us in their worlds – and technology plays a crucial role in that magic.
Samsung Onyx screens elevate the theatrical experience with pristine blacks and exceptional clarity, making every frame feel startlingly real.”.
