Cost-of-ownership and life-cycle costs are major considerations in the budgeting process – a system that needs constant maintenance can compromise its effectiveness through longer downtime, disruption for operators dependant on the wall content and the frequent need for trained personnel to service the display system.
The video wall's operating life is not simply the length of time it continues to display images. When you budget for the operating life, you're estimating how long the system will operate without performance degradation. In other words, how long will the video wall perform to the display standards set on installation day.
High product reliability
Video wall reliability is one of the most important considerations in control room video wall design. A video wall is a human-machine interface, and we can classify the factors you should consider in designing your control room video wall as either human or machine. Christie control room video wall solutions are designed to address all such factors.
A Christie display wall features industry-renowned, highly reliable, DLP® technology, proven to be low maintenance. Christie has confirmed the high reliability of our rear projection products in a RPMX-D120U & RPMSP-D120U Reliability study. The study found these Christie systems run with an average of 63,000 hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure), the longest documented hours of operation in the industry.
Budgeting for operating and maintenance costs
You need to consider the ongoing costs on maintaining the system and consult with industry experts, like authorized Christie dealers, to determine the types of ongoing cost savings that are available from Christie technology:
- Lower power consumption
- Fewer lamp changes,
- Less downtime and disruption
- Ease of set-up
- Superior technical support
All these provide an overall lower cost of ownership, lower sustainment costs and, a greater return on investment.
Entero™ LED is our Zero Maintenance Design system
This cost saving display wall system utilizes revolutionary technology, combining DLP® performance with LED illumination. The Zero Maintenance Design is the revolution that eliminates all consumable components, such as lamps, colour wheels and dust filters. This solid state design means there are no lamps to burn out. There is no spinning colour wheel within the projection engine that may fail and require replacing. And no dust filter that needs to be cleaned. With no consumable components there is substantially less disruption to the content of the wall.