Christie Microtiles Debut on The Colbert Report
Creative Display Tiles Selected for Superior Color, Flexibility and Green Factor
2010 NAB Show
April 12, 2010 03:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time
LAS VEGAS--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Millions of fans of The Colbert Report received a visual treat on
the January 4th season premiere, when Stephen Colbert introduced the redesign of his new Red, White & Blue set
featuring Christie® MicroTiles™. The breakthrough modular display technology debuted in a bolder-than-HiDef-way
for Comedy Central’s most daring pundit. The redesigned stage features 41 MicroTiles arranged as three horizontal
displays, in 1x4, 1x5 and 1x4 arrays underneath Colbert’s desk; and four angled 1x7 vertical columns along the
backdrop. The tiles display high definition video and graphics created exclusively for the show.
This marks the first installation of Christie MicroTiles since its launch on November 11th, 2009. “The best part about
being the first show to use the Christie MicroTiles is that we are the first. We love being first,” notes Meredith
Bennett Co-Executive Producer, The Colbert Report.
Videofilm Systems, Inc. of Bridgeport, Connecticut collaborated with Emmy-Award winning design firm Jack
Morton to specify and install the Christie MicroTiles for The Colbert Report. Dale Cihi, Engineering Designer at
Videofilm recounts: “After Giselle Vogel, our VP and I saw the MicroTiles demo at InfoComm ‘09 we were taken
by the technology and knew we had to include it on the set of The Colbert Report. Real-time color correction and
off-access viewing were the primary requirements we had to overcome and Christie MicroTiles definitely met the
criteria. It’s the kind of product that sells itself once you see it. It definitely has the ‘wow’ factor.”
Jim Fenhagen, SVP of Design at Jack Morton and Chief Designer of The Colbert Report set comments on Christie
MicroTiles’ unique combination of DLP® with LED illumination: “We found that in updating the set, the brightness
factor was c