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Next Generation Displays

During the last ten years blip has developed a display management architecture, drawing from its experience with major projects, which now offers truly advanced integration of lighting, moving imagery and real time control. Using high performance, open systems-based computing and networks, and drawing upon reliability and data security techniques from the aerospace industry, blip products allow ambitious and very large installations to be undertaken which would not previously have been possible.

Key to this capability is blip's PixelbusTM architecture a structured approach to building and operating heterogeneous display systems for both temporary events or permanent installations quickly and reliably. PixelbusTM uses industry-standard gigabit ethernet and RS-485 to connect a completely scalable network of low-cost computers - blip Image Generators - with displays, enabling multi-vendor break installations to be configured quickly and easily.

Whether LED panel, DMX lighting or blip's own revolutionary Patch displays, PixelbusTM reduces complex cabling, matches brightness and colour and offers the highest possible performance without any restrictions of scale or addressing. The result is that even complex installations with real time control can be built from blip components without costly engineering development - integrated solutions using existing multi-vendor displays.

blip has pioneered completely new display products which enable the construction of very large indoor and daylight systems for both events and for permanent installations. For the first time, dynamic image and lighting can be realised with viewing distances of hundreds of metres or even several kilometres.

Using these new products, blip can build temporary and fixed display installations that change the way we experience public space - wrapping the Eiffel Tower in moving imagery for a concert, say,
or using the hills above Torino as a movie screen, through use of new research in very high brightness sources and Pixelbus - our powerful network operating software architecture.

The blip Patch is a revolutionary new display - very light and flexible - it can be wrapped around complex structures very quickly: greatly speeding installation time and allowing configurations not previously possible. Yet Patch is fully waterproof and ruggedised for the most demanding outdoor applications.