Today, Planar announced that the new Planar® DirectLight® Essential Series was awarded Best of InfoComm 2025 by rAVe, celebrating the fine pixel pitch LED video wall as a standout product with staying power, smart design and real-world value. Planar DirectLight Essential Series was named Best New LED Platform Expansion in the Displays and Projection category.
“We’ve seen Chip-on-Board technology quickly gain popularity and during this time, dedicated efforts to carefully refine Planar’s first COB LED display and provide our customers with an offering unlike any other,” said Robert Detwiler, senior director of product management at Planar. “With an LED sorting process and proprietary driver integrated circuit (IC), Planar DirectLight Essential Series customers benefit from more uniform visual performance and presentation of full colors. We’re honored to have this new solution recognized as one of rAVe’s top product picks at InfoComm 2025.”
rAVe’s Best of InfoComm Awards celebrate outstanding products and innovations in the AV industry. This year’s winners were chosen after evaluation of the product’s performance on the show floor, in addition to product submissions and product videos. 2025 winners span products designed for audio, digital signage, software and AI, unified communications and meeting equity, and more.
Launched in May, the Planar DirectLight Essential Series is a line of fine pixel pitch LED video wall displays that offer high pixel density, energy efficiency and exceptional durability to support an array of high-traffic, high resolution indoor environments with abundant ambient light, including lobbies, conference rooms, retail spaces, hospitality venues, classrooms and regional broadcast studios. Available in 0.7, 0.9, 1.2 and 1.5 millimeter pixel pitches, the Planar DirectLight Essential Series delivers deeper blacks and sharper visuals with a 30,000:1 contrast ratio and high refresh rate of 3,840Hz. The series features an LED sorting process that helps ensure superior performance and a significant reduction in energy requirements, in addition to a best-in-class driver IC that is specially built to mitigate issues related to brightness and color uniformity.
Planar DirectLight Essential Series also offers popular Planar® DirectLight® Essential Complete™ display configurations, including 109-inch diagonal Full HD, 136-inch diagonal Full HD and 163-inch diagonal 4K sizes. The pre-configured LED video walls reduce the time, cost and complexity of designing and installing video walls, equipping customers with everything needed for effective deployment.
Planar received a Best of InfoComm Award in 2024 for the Planar® CarbonLight™ CLI Flex Series in the category of Best New dvLED. This win joins previous Best of InfoComm Award honors from rAVe in 2023 and 2022.
For more information about the award-winning Planar DirectLight Essential Series, visit www.planar.com/DirectLightEssential.