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Analog Way's Ascender 48 Drives The Comcast Experience in Philadelphia

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The Comcast Experience has begun this year’s Holiday Spectactular at the Winter Garden in the lobby of Comcast headquarters in Philadelphia where two Analog Way Ascender 48 systems drive one of the largest 4mm LED wall installations in the world. David Niles of Niles Creative Group is responsible for the wall’s content concept and production year round since its inception and handled the project’s systems design and integration.

Since its debut, The Comcast Experience has attracted the attention of Philadelphians and visitors to the city and engaged those going to and from work in the Comcast Center. A unique LED screen fills the wall broken up by three entryways leading to the building’s elevator banks. All of  the imagery displayed on the LED wall has been created by David Niles and runs 18 hours a day. When the LED wall is at rest for six hours every evening the imagery becomes an extension of the Winter Garden’s maple-paneled walls and is indistinguishable from the interior architecture.

“Our challenge with The Comcast Experience was to make the people in the building proud and excited to be there and to turn Comcast Center into a destination in Philadelphia,” says David Niles, who heads Niles Creative Group. “It certainly has become a destination in town: The Comcast Experience has passed 2 million visitors since we began doing this year’s holiday show.”

The holiday show runs from Thanksgiving to January 2, 2018 playing seven days a week on  the hour. The 15-minute, family-oriented display features a musical overture, iceskating, dance numbers and a fly over the city. The lobby is decorated with animatronic snowmen that blow snow on the crowds. “People pack the lobby to see the show,” Niles reports.

During the rest of the year Niles’s live-action content highlights “ordinary people doing extraordinary things” produced in a quirky style he calls “a bit like a cartoon in The New Yorker.” Life-size actors push and pull panels to reveal hidden things, ride across the wall on a 50-foot pencil like a rocket ship and appear behind dozens of windows doing interesting things. Weekends feature themed shows such as American Snapshot, which Niles likens to a coffee table photography book about the US, or a portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water house in Pennsylvania. Special content is displayed, too – when Pope Francis visited Philadelphia Niles took viewers on a tour of Rome.

Niles uses an array of ultra-high resolution cameras to capture footage for the LED wall’s amazing native resolution of 12 million pixels. Content is played out based on a series of algorithms Niles developed based on the time of day and lobby traffic. “It follows a theatrical arc so visitors and employees don’t see repeats apart from evergreen content like the giant clock,” says Niles.

Analog Way became involved with The Comcast Experience when equipment was refreshed two years ago. At that time an entire rack of processing gear was replaced by two Analog Way Ascender 48 (LiveCore) multi-screen processors, which manage the multiple- output system as one seamless canvas. The Ascenders are linked together to provide full access to 24 inputs and 8 outputs during the LED wall’s 24/7 operation.

“Ascender can master an LED wall of the impressive size and scale of The Comcast Experience,” says Andrzej Lubaszka, Chief Technologist at Analog Way. “All  the outputs are in perfect synch to eliminate any tearing across the screen. The control room uses Ascender’s independent Monitoring feature for full live previews of the content since they can’t see the LED wall from their location.”

Niles, who designed and built the content delivery system, was instrumental in selecting Ascender 48. “I did some research, looked at the equipment and decided it was the right fit,” he says. “I liked the architecture of the electronics: It was well designed and well executed equipment. The reliability, redundancy and elegance of the engineering were very impressive.”

With the LED wall online 24/7 it was imperative that any new system offer the utmost in dependability. “Comcast treats the display as if it were a broadcast; it’s the face of Comcast,” Niles explains.

“They asked us to ensure that nothing could go wrong – or if it did that viewers would never see it. Nothing could be detrimental to the viewing experience. Ascender’s dual redundancy and full back up guarantee that the display runs all the time.”

Miami-based Smart Monkeys, Inc. has been associated with The Comcast Experience since its inception programming the Medialon show control for the display. When the equipment was refreshed Alan Anderson programmed Medialon to interface with Ascender to put up PIPs, perform dissolves and switch inputs as required. “The Ascender 48s are at the heart of the screen management. Their role is fundamental to how the LED wall represents the content and creative vision. Both the performance and reliability of the Ascender 48s made them the unequivocal choice,” comments Anderson.

Analog Way provided on-site support to customize the equipment installation and liaise with programming to ensure a flawless transition, Lubaszka recalls. “Everyone worked within a very tight timeframe so the system was down only during the overnight maintenance window,” he reports.

It’s not too late to catch The Comcast Experience holiday show, but if you miss it there will be plenty of captivating displays to watch all year round.

 

Ascender 48 - 4K - PL
by Analog Way
Model: ASC4806-4K-PL - Discontinued
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