Visual display and projection technologies

Not every space that uses a display or projector has the same performance requirements. For conference rooms with a consumer TV mounted on the wall, retail stores running a media player into a commodity monitor, or classrooms running a consumer projector onto a pull-down screen, the visuals on display aren’t the number one priority.

In cinemas and other professional visual environments, however, quality, reliability, and precision are paramount, and this directly affects the requirements for visual display technology. Every frame, every color, and every detail matters. Cinema auditoriums need to reproduce content exactly as the director intended, public utility control rooms can't afford a single dropped frame or failed display, 50,000-seat stadiums need projection that can cut through ambient light to deliver seamless visuals on the playing field, and museum exhibits need technology that runs flawlessly, without interruption, for years to immerse visitors with vibrant visuals day after day.

Although each environment has unique technical requirements, they all share a common need for visual technology engineered for demanding applications. Incredible brightness, continuous operation, precise color reproduction, and dependable performance aren’t optional. They’re fundamental requirements. Depending on the application, systems must also meet industry standards such as DCI or support wide color gamuts like DCI-P3 or Rec. 2020.

Just as important is next-level serviceability and support. When a display fails before a prestigious event, live broadcast, or in a mission-critical control room, replacing an entire system isn’t an option. Professional environments require products designed to be serviced quickly, supported globally, and integrated with image and video processing that treats the display not as a standalone device but as a key component in a larger visualization ecosystem.

Bringing outstanding technology together with services and solutions is where Christie^® shines.

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Christie visual display technology

Christie designs, engineers, and manufactures the technologies that power many of the world’s most demanding visual environments. Our portfolio includes cinema projectors, professional AV projectors, LED video walls, secure LCD panels, image processors, and software for projector alignment, monitoring, and control.

That innovative technology is the foundation of what we bring to every project, as we work closely with our global network of integration partners or directly with end users to deliver visual display solutions. We help them bring ideas to life as they design the overall AV system for a specific space using our technology and by providing ongoing service.

Projection: From cinema screens to stadium fields

Our projection portfolio offers one of the broadest and most technically advanced ranges of projectors for cinema and professional AV industries. It offers options that fit just about any professional projection environment, from intimate corporate spaces and classrooms to concert stages, stadium fields, and premium large-format cinema auditoriums, and includes RGB pure laser, RGB hybrid, and laser phosphor illumination technologies.

Whatever the environment, Christie offers purpose-built projection technology to match its requirements.

For cinema installations, Christie CineLife+™ electronics platform supports 4K projection at up to 120 frames per second in both 2D and 3D, with DCI compliance across the full product line and features RealLaser™ illumination technology to deliver the RGB pure laser brightness, color volume, and operational lifetime that moviegoers and exhibitors demand. For small-to-mid-sized theatres, we also offer laser phosphor-enhanced cinema projectors, including RGB hybrid, to give exhibitors access to the same advanced electronics and format support regardless of illumination choice.

Similarly, for large-venue visual applications, our flagship RGB pure laser projectors and hybrid RGBH projectors deliver the brightness, color gamut, and high frame rate capability that demanding installations require, from a self-contained chassis with no external infrastructure and connectivity designed for complex multi-projector deployments.

Across the broader ProAV range, we offer 1DLP and 3DLP projection solutions to match the demands and budget of almost any ProAV environment, from corporate meeting rooms and classrooms to houses of worship, immersive exhibits, large auditoriums, and live event stages.

LED video walls: Premium performance and flexibility

LED technology continues to expand into environments where seamless visuals, exceptional reliability, and long operating life are essential. From premium architectural installations to mission-critical control rooms and corporate environments, Christie offers LED display solutions engineered to meet a wide range of applications, performance requirements, and budgets.

If you’re looking for the pinnacle of custom LED display solutions, you need MicroTiles^® LED, our most advanced LED display technology. Designed for those who refuse to compromise their vision, MicroTiles LED goes beyond conventional display technology to deliver a premium solution for projects that demand sculptural precision, unmatched visual performance, and designs that simply can't be achieved with traditional LED systems. Featuring AutoMatch and Automatic Neighbor Detection™ technology, you can place any tile, anywhere, and maintain uniformity in color and brightness across the display. With P3 color, powerful 24-bit color, 4K at 120 Hz capability, and HDR10 compatibility, MicroTiles LED delivers superior visuals in a range of ultra-fine pixel pitches from 0.75mm to 1.5mm. Designed and built in Canada, it’s TAA-compliant for government and defense applications.

Our XP Series is engineered for exceptional precision and performance without compromise. Designed for immersive attractions, critical control rooms, and sophisticated corporate settings, this LED wall delivers outstanding color accuracy and smooth grayscale detail at any brightness level. The result is highly realistic imagery that remains consistent and precise across both low-light scenes and high-brightness content.

Both MicroTiles LED and XP Series are powered by Christie VividLife™, which features advanced hardware, intelligent processing, pixel-perfect calibration, automatic color and brightness matching, and the intuitive VividLife UI as part of a fully integrated system.

Core Series III LED video walls deliver reliable 24/7 performance with improved energy efficiency, front serviceability, and ADA-compliant direct mounting, making them an excellent choice for a broad range of ProAV applications. Available in pixel pitches from 0.9mm to 2.5mm, Core Series III video walls are ideal for installations where price is a factor, such as corporate lobbies, meeting rooms, and digital signage applications.

LCD panels for secure, mission-critical environments

Our secure LCD panels are built for mission-critical environments where security, uptime, and visual precision are non-negotiable.

Christie Secure Series III 4K UHD LCD panels are purpose-built for the highest security. With TAA and NDAA compliance and secure firmware architecture, these panels are non-RF with no Wi-Fi to meet the demands of federal government and defense environments. With volatile memory to protect your data and no embedded operating system, Secure Series III eliminates embedded vulnerabilities typical of Android- or Linux-based displays, making it ideal for 24/7 continuous operation in classified, mission-critical environments such as control rooms, situation rooms, training centers, and mobile command units.

Powerful projection software

Delivering exceptional visual experiences requires far more than the projector itself. It takes solutions that go beyond the box. That’s where our powerful projection software tools come in.

Christie Twist built-in image warping and blending lets you expertly edge blend and stack multiple images seamlessly on any 2D or 3D surface. Embedded in most Christie projectors and activated with a complimentary software download, Twist allows you to easily map pixels onto any projection surface, maintaining proper geometry and accurate pixel-to-pixel alignment. For more complex projects, you can access additional functionality when you upgrade to Twist Premium or Twist Pro.

Multi-projector arrays, projection mapping, and complex screen shapes and surfaces require expert image configuration, alignment, and warping and blending. Working in conjunction with Twist, Christie Mystique automates the warping and blending process for multi-projector installations and projection mapping applications, including flat, curved, and custom-shaped surfaces such as domes. At the click of a mouse, the camera-based software aligns, stacks, and blends multi-projector systems in minutes with unsurpassed accuracy, saving hours of painstaking work. With five versions of Mystique available, each designed for specific screen types and applications, there’s an edition to meet your needs.

When using Christie Griffyn^® Series or Sapphire^® 4K40-RGBH 3DLP RGB pure laser projectors in a blended projection system, you can install Christie Guardian software to monitor for misalignment and automatically calibrate those images in real time, helping maintain consistency across long-running, permanent installations.

Christie Conductor software lets you monitor and control up to 256 Christie 3DLP projectors on the same network from your laptop. The user-friendly interface lets you instantly see which require attention, so you can proactively manage, diagnose, and automate processes across an entire installation.

Flexible, scalable image and video processing solutions

Whether it’s rental and staging, sports venues, broadcast environments, or large-scale entertainment productions, you need high-performance image and video processing that fits your needs rather than a traditional monolithic solution.

With the unmatched versatility of its modular, distributed architecture and purpose-built hardware, Christie Spyder-S gives you the flexibility you need to scale to fit your business or installation. You can start with a single, compact, four-input, four-output frame or scale up to 16 frames to support more than 200 million pixels on a single canvas without changing software or workflow.

Featuring expanded connectivity, simplified management, and greater creative power, Spyder-S enables you to deliver the highest performance for complex productions with confidence — all with a lower total cost of ownership.

Engineering heritage and global infrastructure

Since 1929, Christie has combined engineering innovation with manufacturing excellence to develop professional visual technologies used around the world. Our heritage includes more than 100 patents and three Academy Awards for Technical Achievement, most recently in 2024 for the Christie E3LH Dolby Vision Cinema Projection System. Today, our visual display solutions power some of the world’s most demanding installations in markets such as cinema, live events and staging, theme parks and attractions, government, corporate environments, secure control rooms, education, and worship.

To serve customers and partners, our offices are located around the globe and include our center of excellence for engineering in Kitchener, Ontario, our center of manufacturing excellence in Shenzhen, China, and our head office in Cypress, California.

As a company built around professional visual technology, from engineering resources and manufacturing processes to our R&D investment and global service infrastructure, we’re committed to helping our partners and customers create experiences in environments where outstanding visual display performance isn’t optional.

Who Christie serves

Christie technology powers many of the world’s most demanding visual experiences, from the world's largest theme parks and professional sports venues to some of the most mission-critical control room environments on the planet. More than 65,000 Christie cinema projectors have been installed worldwide, powering over 10 million cinema screenings. During Expo 2020 Dubai, over 250 RGB pure laser projectors illuminated the Al Wasl Dome, which Guinness World Records recognizes as the world's largest interactive immersive dome.

Through our global network of integration partners, consultants, and our direct relationships with customers, our technology reaches audiences around the world. In particular, our technology and expertise are the top choice of end users such as cinema exhibitors and movie studios, experience designers for museums, attractions, and cultural institutions, AV integrators and consultants, live event producers and rental and staging companies, control room designers and operators for government and defense, and enterprise technology buyers responsible for corporate, education, and worship environments.

While each of these end users has different priorities, procurement processes, and definitions of success, they share a requirement for visual technology that performs under pressure, operates reliably day in and day out, and is backed by a manufacturer with the engineering depth, global infrastructure, and technology roadmap to support their investment.