Planar announced two Best of Show Awards for new display solutions unveiled last month at InfoComm 2026 in Las Vegas. The groundbreaking Planar® Cobra™ Series and premium Planar® 21by9 Series took home top honors from Sound & Video Contractor and AV Technology, recognizing each solution as an outstanding professional AV product on display at this year’s show.
“We’re thrilled to walk away with two product awards for brand new solutions that debuted at InfoComm this year and demonstrate the next evolution of LED and LCD display performance,” said Robert Detwiler, senior director of product management at Planar. “The Planar Cobra Series and Planar 21by9 Series both stopped attendees in their tracks, receiving praise for the remarkably unmatched viewing experiences they deliver as well as the gaps they fill in today’s market.”
Powered by Planar’s proprietary EverPixel™ and TruMicro™ LED technologies, the new Planar Cobra Series is a breakthrough addition to the industry leader’s portfolio of visualization technologies. Designed to provide exceptional visual performance, advanced reliability and enhanced durability, the new solution establishes a new benchmark for fine pixel pitch LED displays.
EverPixel architecture incorporates pixel-level redundancy directly into the display to help maintain image quality and continuous operation, introducing the industry’s first ultra-fine pitch LED display platform with pixel-level redundancy. TruMicro technology utilizes LEDs as small as 20 micrometers (μm) to enable true MicroLED performance, exceptional visual precision and ultra-fine pixel pitches.
Sound & Video Contractor’s 2026 InfoComm Best of Show Award winning products were evaluated in the areas of performance for category, ease of installation, value, innovation and reliability features. This year’s judges celebrated Planar Cobra Series for the platform’s amazing appearance, ruggedness, brightness and range of resolutions, recognizing the pixel redundancy as a major multi-faceted innovation.
The premium Planar 21by9 Series is designed to deliver panoramic viewing and enhance productivity. The new line of 5K resolution 21:9 LCD displays is built to impress and designed to deliver superior visual performance, introducing a first-of-its-kind quantum dot Mini-LED backlight coupled with dual-brightness enhancement technology that drives a wide color gamut reaching 115 percent DCI-P3 color space, 1,000,000:1 HDR dynamic contrast and peak brightness of up to 2,500 nits. The product line also features advanced processing capabilities and up to 2,560 local dimming zones driven by Planar’s proprietary algorithm. Available in 81, 94 and 105-inch sizes in 5120x2160 resolution and running native at 120Hz refresh, Planar 21by9 Series supports popular unified communications and video collaboration platforms and is equally suited for lobbies, retail and especially dramatic, private cinema.
AV Technology’s 2026 InfoComm Best of Show Awards program received a record-breaking number of entries, paying tribute to new or materially updated products spanning LED and LCD displays, touch screens, tablets, cameras, microphones, speakers and more.
For more information about the new Planar Cobra Series or Planar 21by9 Series, visit www.planar.com/Cobra or www.planar.com/21by9.