HOYTS Partners with GDC to Attain the Peak of Cinema

HOYTS hosted an experience showcase to debut its new APEX cinema at HOYTS Melbourne Central, and HOYTS’ second APEX screen at Karrinyup. Tricorne Premium LED screens form the visual centrepiece of APEX, HOYTS’ flagship premium cinema format, which integrates Dolby Atmos, premium seating, and purpose-designed lighting to deliver a unique and immersive movie experience.

HOYTS Cinemas, Australia’s leading cinema chain, used Tricorne Premium LED technology to push the boundaries of what is technologically achievable in a commercial cinema environment. The result was two of the largest and most technically advanced indoor cinema LED screens in the world.

A Historic First for Australasia

HOYTS APEX at Melbourne Central and Karrinyup is the exhibitor’s latest premium large-format experience, using Tricorne’s latest LED screen technology, which incorporates micro-perforations within the screen to allow sound to pass directly through, delivering an immersive audio experience combined with world-leading HDR visual clarity and depth.

HOYTS Karrinyup boasts a 25-metre-wide by 11-metre-tall screen, powered by over 24 million pixels, and is currently the world’s largest cinema LED screen operating in a commercial multiplex. The HOYTS Melbourne Central screen, at 21 metres wide by 9 metres tall with over 17 million pixels, is equally without peer in Australia.

Chairman and CEO of GDC Technology, Dr Man Nang Chong, said: “HOYTS APEX is powered by our latest micro-perforated, HDR (High Dynamic Range) LED technology, delivering the most advanced big-screen experience available today.”

“It offers 30 times better picture contrast and millions more pixels than traditional cinema projection, creating a level of immersion and precision unlike anything Australian cinemagoers have experienced before.”

Engineering for the Demands of Premium Exhibition

Achieving screens of this scale required solving challenges that go beyond pixel count. Tricorne Premium LED’s ultra-thin panels are engineered to tile seamlessly across surfaces of this size without visible joints, while the curved geometry – a defining characteristic of APEX – demands precision manufacturing. The result is a screen surface that wraps the viewer’s field of vision and minimises edge distortion, a perceptible difference at these dimensions.

Tricorne Premium LED screens deliver an HDR visual experience traditional projection systems cannot replicate. Deep blacks, high dynamic range, and DCI-P3 colour accuracy, combined with a 160° wide viewing angle, ensure a consistent viewing experience from every seat in the auditorium.

The acoustic integration is perhaps the most technically consequential innovation. The micro-perforated panel design renders the entire screen surface acoustically transparent, allowing the speakers to be positioned directly behind the LED screen.

Damian Keogh, CEO and President of HOYTS Group, added: “What sets APEX apart is its combination of a curved LED screen of spectacular scale, cutting-edge LED technology delivering true pixel perfection, and Dolby Atmos immersive sound, bringing every moment to life with remarkable clarity and depth.”

Beyond feature film presentations, the Tricorne Premium LED platform deployed within APEX is designed to support an extensive range of content formats. The display system’s native brightness, contrast, and resolution characteristics make it well-suited for live event broadcasting, alternative content programming, and emerging HDR and high-frame-rate delivery formats – providing HOYTS with future-ready infrastructure.

For the cinema industry more broadly, HOYTS APEX provides a substantive, at-scale proof of concept for premium large-format LED as a viable and superior alternative to laser projection in premium-tier auditoriums.

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