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Panasonic Installs Large Screen LEDs to Display it All at Planet Hollywood.
Secaucus, New Jersey—Las Vegas built its reputation on gaming and entertainment, and over the years, the city’s entertainment has gone through many phases to keep up with the ever-evolving tastes and expectations of visitors. Even the traditional burlesque show has been updated for today’s Las Vegas crowd with digital large screen displays and celebrity talent.
At Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, located on the famous Las Vegas Strip, the CHI Showroom is home to the new PEEPSHOW, a striptease revue with high-tech displays. Transformed from its previous venue as the Stomp Theater into a modern cabaret clubroom, the CHI Showroom features two new large screen LED displays. Installed by Panasonic at the back of the stage, the LED screens are integral to the show as they physically move with the stage show program.
“PEEPSHOW is Las Vegas’ only striptease spectacular and truly a one-of-a-kind show,” said Scott Zeiger, PEEPSHOW producer and Co-CEO of BASE Entertainment. “It’s a new genre of entertainment and the LED screens help create the magic. Combined with the talented and beautiful performers on stage, the image quality, brightness and color of the video screens help make PEEPSHOW the best show on The Strip and create a completely unique experience for the audience.”
The Panasonic systems integration team has extensive experience in designing and installing large screen displays in a variety of venues, but the implementation at the CHI Showroom was uniquely complex. The set was designed with circular stages, anchored in the back by the LED screens which move twenty feet above the stage at times throughout the production.
“It was an exciting challenge for us to implement what the director had in mind,” said Jim Doyle, President of Panasonic Enterprise Solutions Company. “Our role went beyond the usual in that we assisted in developing the structural design for the LED screens so that they could be moved as needed during the show.”
In addition to creating the unique structural design, the Panasonic team was also faced with some unusual challenges when it came to completing the installation. Theater and stage construction as well as rehearsals often took priority over the installation schedule and as a result, work on the installation was often accomplished throughout the night and into the early morning hours. Mr. Doyle added, “The team had a schedule to keep, so they worked whenever the Theater was available, regardless of the hour.”
The two screens measure 20 feet-high-by-8 feet-wide and have a pixel pitch of 7.62mm, delivering a broad reach with high impact visuals. The CHI Showroom large screen installation is just the most recent in a series of spectacular video-centric implementations by Panasonic at Planet Hollywood. Two side-by-side plasma video walls are a centerpiece of the Heart Bar, while plasmas, LCDs and projected graphics adorn the casino from floor to ceiling. Planet Dailies, the resort’s twenty-four-hour restaurant, has more than fifty LCDs and plasma screens. Outside on the famed Strip, five new LED boards light up the curved façade including a ribbon board (which spans 600 feet, almost the entire length of the building).
For more information, contact Panasonic by calling toll free 877/483-7881 or visiting www.panasonic.com/experience.
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