Texas cinema puts its loudspeakers behind a direct-view LED screen

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Schulman Theatres has installed a direct-view LED cinema screen at Film Alley Bastrop in Texas. The 87-seat SPX Direct auditorium uses GDC Technology’s Tricorne display with a 2.5 mm pixel pitch, according to the supplier.

The screen is acoustically transparent, so the front loudspeakers can sit behind the picture. That preserves the familiar centre-channel position for dialogue. An opaque LED display requires a different arrangement, often with loudspeakers around the picture.

GDC lists support for HDR, high-frame-rate and 3D presentations. Those are system capabilities, and the formats audiences see will depend on the films and versions booked by the cinema.

GDC Technology’s installation announcement