LED screens for stages and concert halls

An LED screen on stage replaces both the painted backdrop and the projector: the picture holds up under full stage lighting, the set changes in a second, and the back rows still see a close-up. Since 2012 KazLedPro has been building stage screens in Almaty and across Kazakhstan, from assembly-hall and House of Culture backdrops to outdoor fan-zone screens at city events.

A stage canvas is assembled from 500×1000 mm rental cabinets with locks: any size in half-metre steps, even seams, tool-free assembly. Venues buy these cabinets into their own inventory; if the screen is needed for a single evening, it is rented together with light, sound and a technician. Installation is done by our own crew, and the module warehouse is in Almaty.

This page covers the pixel pitch and brightness a stage needs, how a camera-ready screen differs from a screen built just for the audience, how weight and truss rigging are calculated, and how long assembly takes. If you are looking for an LED screen for a stage or a concert, the main answers are here, and the site calculator estimates the cost from your stage dimensions.

Pixel pitch and brightness for a stage

In a hall the audience sits four to fifteen metres from the backdrop, so a fine pitch is not needed: rental cabinets P2.6 and P2.9 at 1,000 cd/m² and P3.91 at 500 cd/m² do the job. For a small stage where the front row is two metres away, P1.95 is the choice: brightness from 900 cd/m² and a density of 262,144 dots per square metre. All of these cabinets are 500×1000 mm, so the canvas builds up in half-metre steps and fits the proscenium exactly.

An outdoor stage or fan zone calls for the outdoor P3.91 cabinet: 5,500–7,800 cd/m², IP68 protection and an operating range from minus 40 to plus 50 °C. Refresh rate on the rental models is at least 3,840 Hz, and up to 7,680 Hz on the outdoor cabinet. That matters when the stage is filmed: no banding and no flicker on camera. And unlike a projector, the screen does not require the house lights to be dimmed.

• Hall backdrop and culture-house stage: P2.6–P3.91, 500×1000 mm cabinets
• Small stage, front row at 2 m: P1.95, brightness from 900 cd/m²
• Outdoor stage and fan zone: P3.91, IP68, 5,500–7,800 cd/m²
• Filming on camera: refresh rate from 3,840 Hz
• Light, sound, truss and an on-site technician under one contract

Stages, halls and venues we have equipped

The Zhansugurov Palace of Culture in Taldykorgan runs a 100 m² screen at pitch P3 (December 2023). The House of Culture in Aksai has a 62 m² canvas built from 500×1000 mm cabinets, with a viewing distance from four metres (January 2021). At the EXPO-2017 exhibition ground we installed a 9 m² screen made of 320×160 mm modules in February 2017.

School and university stages are a large part of the work: the assembly hall of the KIS private school in Almaty, gymnasiums 132 and 133, where the screen came with stage lighting on truss, and the sports hall of the NGS school with a P4 screen. At the Children and Youth Centre in Karaganda a P4 screen was delivered with a full lighting set (January 2021). Every project is documented with photos and video in the portfolio.

Assembly, rigging and connection

A 500×1000 mm cabinet weighs 13–15 kg indoors and 11–13 kg outdoors, so a square metre of canvas is roughly 26–30 kg plus truss and rigging. We calculate the load before installation and agree the rigging drawing with the venue. Cabinets lock together without tools: a 6×3 m screen is assembled, cabled and set up by the crew in two to four hours, and comes down faster.

Power is sized from the peak: rental cabinets are rated at 600–800 W/m² maximum and 240–320 W/m² average. Content is fed from the director's laptop through a video processor, so camera switches, captions and sponsor clips run without a black frame. Light, sound, truss and console arrive with the screen, and the technician stays on site until the end of the event.