The Tour de France 2014 was followed live from LED screens equipped with Caliber technology

Lightmedia and Big TV supplied the LED screens that were placed throughout the first stages of the Tour de France 2014 and?, thanks to the Caliber LEDView530 video scaler, They allowed fans to follow the cyclists' race.

last saturday 5 July began in the British town of Leeds. 101 edition of the Tour de France, a stage of 190,5 kilometers that ended in Harrogate.

More than five million fans took to the streets of Yorkshire to follow the cycling route of the first two stages, but only a few saw it up close, the rest were able to follow it through large LED screens equipped with LEDView technology from Calibre UK, which were supplied by Lightmedia y Big TV.

Lightmedia provided 19 LED screens for the first kilometers of the stage that covered the route from Leeds to Harrogate and the second from York to Sheffield, becoming the key element in many of the parks where Tour de France fans followed the lap.

“Caliber's LEDView530s have been a key part of our staging, to scale the content of the live broadcasts from the television cameras of the entire route and its display on each and every one of the LED screens. This is not the first time we have used Caliber solutions, We also use them at other events such as Carlos and Camila's wedding or the launch of the Xbone One, as well as in the previous Tour that passed through the United Kingdom in 2007”, explica Eddie Elliot-Smith, CEO of Lightmedia.

For your part, Big TV installed LED screens in Skipton towns, York y Leeds, y, besides, provided equipment for a number of private parties held in Yorkshire. And as in the previous case, the solution chosen was the Caliber LEDView530 LED video screen image scaler..

The LEDView530 provides professional image processing in a compact 1U form factor and offers drag-and-drop image sizing capabilities using the jog wheel to fit content to the LED display.. All input channels and video formats are automatically scaled to fit this easy-to-define area, no need to go back to the zoom and pan controls, and without the need to recalibrate for different input resolutions or signal formats.

This Caliber UK scaler features an easy-to-use front control panel with jog wheels and front LCD display for ultra-fast setup., The LEDView530 is a flexible matrix switcher and interface for connecting LED displays from almost any HD and SD video source to intuitively process images into a display that transforms any space..

World-class scaling with flexible image color adjustments and powerful detail enhancement ensures the best possible image on the LED display whether large or small.. The LEDView530 can handle displays as small as 128x96 pixels or as large as 1920x1200.