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Service & Support: Unmatched service & Support

 

Our product advantages are just the beginning. We also provide industry leading turnkey solutions for managing your digital billboard advertising network. From our state of the art display management software to our dedicated content creation and management team, we make sure the operation of your digital advertising system is as simple and painless as possible.
We’ve also developed tools to help you evaluate the viability of digital outdoor advertising. publish ad rates and help your advertisers understand the benefits of digital outdoor advertising.

From start to finish, we’re here to help you succeed!

 

On-Site Service Plan: Standard Nationwide 5 - Year Plan

 

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We’ve teamed up with Kodak Service & Support to provide a coast to coast network of certified technicians who are at your service to make sure you achieve maximum performance and continuous uptime from your digital outdoor advertising. Whether you own a single display or a nationwide network, every Optec Digital Billboards display includes a full product warranty and guaranteed on-time service and support for 5 years - at no extra cost

Other manufacturers claim reliability - WE GUARANTEE IT!

 

Content Creation & Management: Services Available

 


Our staff of digital graphic artists are ready to help you develop, create and manage your advertising content. 

We can provide original artwork or configure your content for digital output either as still graphics files (JPEG, BMP etc.) or create attention generating video animations (AVI, MPEG, WMV etc.)

We can also manage the scheduling and updating of your content on any broadband internet connected display. Real-time web-cam monitoring and auditing also available.

 

 

Viewability: Viewing Distance and Speed

 



The rule of thumb is that you need one (1) inch for every 30 feet of viewing distance.

The distance between your sign and its viewers is the number one factor in determining the type of LED display you will need. Longer distances require less resolution and shorter distances require higher resolutions. In addition, if you are traveling at 55 MPH on a freeway, and the sign is 600 feet away at a truck stop, the text letters must be at least 20 inches tall to be legible. Likewise, if you are standing 60 feet away from a street level sign, the letters need only be two inches tall to be legible.

 

Brightness: cd/M2

 


The Brightness of an LED display is generally expressed by a numerical value in NITs. A NIT is defined as unit of illuminative brightness escribed as candela output per square meter (cd/M2). The higher the number of NITs, the brighter the display. In general, 1,500 NITs, provides readable text in outdoor daylight, while grayscale and outdoor video require up to 5,000 NITs for acceptable color depth.

Optec Digital Billboards displays are built with a high-density of super-bright, high quality LED diodes, so our displays typically exceed this standard by a long shot. Contrast ratio is another important factor in overall brightness, and refers to the difference between levels of blacks compared to the levels of whites in the display. Things like reflective surfaces, glare from the sun, and dimming all affect contrast ratio. To optimize the contrast ratio and overall brightness, Optec Digital Billboards displays feature a unique louver system to shade each individual diode from the glare of the sun. The louvers were computer modeled to optimize the view from onlookers below while blocking the maximum amount of sun from all sides. No other system on the market offers this unique, individual diode shading. Together with the high-density array, Optec Digital Billboards displays are truly the brightest, longest lasting product on the market today.

 

LED Diode Density: LED diodes in one square meter

 

LED diode density and pixel pitch are the two most critical factors to determine the quality of resolution and brightness of digital displays. The LED density of an electronic display is the total number of LED diodes in one square meter. It is calculated by multiplying the number of pixels per square meter by the number of LED diodes per pixel. Optec Digital Billboards’s LED display systems have always featured more LEDs per pixel than other LED display manufacturers. Our higher LED diode density provides significantly higher brightness and longer display life since each individual diode can be driven at lower levels of intensity, reserving capacity to extend the display’s life - without sacrificing proper viewing brightness.

 

Pixel Technology: Virtual vs True

 

Virtual Pixel

Virtual Pixel
True Pixel

True Pixel
Some LED display manufacturers use "virtual pixel" technology. They claim that "virtual pixel" doubles the actual resolution of screen, i.e., a screen with a physical (true) resolution of 320x240 pixels in reality is expressed as the "virtual" resolution of 640x480.  In a “Virtual Pixel” Display in an attempt to smooth out digital image, each pixel of the image corresponds not to an actual module pixel but to a light/data source, that is part of the group of pixels that form the “Virtual pixel”. By this mode of pixel sharing one pixel contains the “Virtual group”* of pixels image information. *(The 2 or 4 pixels that are combined to form the “Virtual” effect). Virtual pixels are also known as “pixel sharing” or “dynamic pixels”. Some claim that with “virtual pixels” the displayed image has twice the resolution as the “physical” resolution. This is not true, since one module pixel cannot memorize or hold and display the majority of information from the initial pixel. The majority of the original information vanishes. This results in distortion of important details and other elements such as colors that are part of the initial image.

In the actual, physical or true pixel technology, the image is displayed on a display in as each pixel of the original image corresponds to pixel on a screen. It takes the actual color in a pixel as it is balanced in brightness and contrast and no additional corrections are required. Optec Digital Billboards only uses true pixel technology.