Key features include high refresh rates and brightness, a wide colour gamut, and anti-reflection. Additional benefits include installation flexibility, familiar structure, streamlined maintenance, and compatibility with Sony’s ecosystem of virtual production technologies. The new models, ZRD-VS25FB and the ZRD-VS25FM are compatible with the Brompton controller and the Megapixel controller, respectively.
The latest Crystal LED models are being targeted to a broad range of customers looking to cost-effectively support virtual production applications, including television, feature films, commercials, and broadcast, as well as for rental, corporate, and staging purposes.
The CAPRI series offers options that ensure the high picture quality synonymous with Sony, at a more accessible price. CAPRI also complements Sony’s premium flagship Crystal LED VERONA series, using the same controllers and featuring the same luminance as VERONA. This compatibility maximizes flexibility by allowing the CAPRI LED wall to be used together with the VERONA LED wall, for example, the VERONA as the main wall and the CAPRI on the ceiling.
Virtual productions rely on high-quality imagery. The CAPRI series combines high refresh rates of up to 7,680Hz to reduce scanline artifacts and ensure smooth, fluid motion. With a high brightness of 1,500 cd/m2, complemented by coverage of over 98% of the DCI-P3 colour gamut, the displays accurately reproduce lifelike images. Additionally, the new models feature anti-reflection capabilities to mitigate the impact of reflection from lighting equipment.
The latest Crystal LED CAPRI series also takes advantage of recent installation advancements to ensure fast and efficient setup. Offering a 1:1 cabinet optimized for temporary installations, such as virtual production stages, the models can quickly and easily be assembled and dismantled using locating pins for easy alignment and a tool-free lever locking mechanism.
Furthermore, the Crystal LED’s modular nature allows for it to be setup in varying sizes and configurations, including stacked, hung, curved or oval installation, and a strengthened frame supports more weight than previous models. Edge protection plates and pin slides reduce damage and wear and tear on parts.
Through alignment with Brompton’s Tessera SX40 and Megapixel’s HELIOS, the CAPRI Crystal LED models maintain control using the same familiar tools and interfaces already commonly deployed in the industry, alleviating the need for additional training and maximizing uptime.
To keep virtual productions focused on the creative processes, the Crystal LED CAPRI has thoughtful features that simplify maintenance: LED module blocks can be changed from the rear and feature status indication lights for easily identifying which blocks need service.
Sony is well-positioned in the virtual production space, providing customers with a connected ecosystem of solutions including cinema and pan-tilt-zoom cameras, a marker-free camera tracking system, LED walls, multi-camera live switching, remote production options, previsualization tools, mobile motion capture, and a virtual production tool set, which together contribute to workflow efficiencies.
As a part of Sony’s Virtual Production Tool Set, a compilation of resources to help improve pre-production and on-set workflows, the Crystal LED CAPRI supports Color Calibrator to ensure the visualized colors pre shoot match the colors that appear in dailies. In addition, the Camera and Display Plugin combines technical information on the cameras and LED pitch to aid in predicting and addressing aliasing during pre-visualization and on-set. Version 3.0 of the Virtual Production Tool Set, planned for fall 2025, will provide Off-axis colour shift compensation capability exclusive to select Crystal LED series, including CAPRI, VERONA, and B-series. By using camera position information, this feature will correct colour shifts due to curved or angled installation, in real-time, significantly reducing colour correction and editing in post-production.
The CAPRI series is expected to be available this winter.