Planar Displays Featured in Unique Airport Cinema
Prolonged airport layovers and delays can be a great inconvenience to travelers, but luckily, more airports are making efforts to alleviate the tedium of long hours spent waiting around terminals by adding lifestyle and entertainment amenities. As an example, San Francisco International Airport offers a yoga studio. Fittingly, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport has live music venues. Hong Kong International Airport even has a golf course.
In February of 2017, Portland International Airport joined this list with the opening of a microcinema—a free, 17-seat theater that shows short films from Pacific Northwest filmmakers. Developed by Portland's non-profit Hollywood Theatre in collaboration with the PDX Art program at the Port of Portland, the Hollywood Theatre at Portland International Airport is open to travelers around the clock.
To make the microcinema project possible, premiere manufacturers from the electronic industry donated projection equipment and audio visual technology. Among those companies are Planar, which donated two Planar® EP Series 4K LCD displays and a Planar® ContentSmart™ Media Player. The Planar EP Series displays are mounted at the entrance of the theater in the style of movie poster portraits, providing a preview of the films showing inside while also advertising features screening at the Hollywood Theatre's northeast Portland location. The Planar ContentSmart Media Player is used to both power the Planar EP Series displays and drive content on the movie theater screen.
The Planar EP Series displays offer best-in-class reliability, stunning image quality and come standard with commercial-grade features required for digital signage, control rooms and corporate environments. With four times the resolution of Full HD, the Ultra HD resolution (3840 x 2160) of Planar EP Series displays deliver life-like picture quality, an immersive experience and combine the visual benefits of 4K resolution with the commercial reliability required by demanding 24x7 commercial operations.
Featuring Full HD 1080p and Ultra HD resolution models as well as ContentSmart™ Software for easy-to-design and deploy digital signage, the Planar ContentSmart Media Player is a digital signage media player platform that offers a simple and easy way to design, schedule, deploy and manage digital signage displays, helping deliver the right message to the right audience at the right time. Planar ContentSmart Media Players also offer 8GB of memory storage with internal day/time clock scheduling in a lightweight aluminum enclosure.
A graduate of DeVry Institute of Technology, Doug has been in the Technology industry since 1976 and actively oversees Fearing’s daily operations. Along with his wife, Lois, and three others, Doug started Fearing’s in a 600 square-foot facility in Portage, Wisconsin. In the 25 years since, the company has grown to over 30 employees with offices in Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Doug likes to say he’s a “TV Technician with a dream� going back to his history with the family’s original business-Fearing’s TV and Appliance.
Doug values time with family, watersports, hiking, snowshoeing and skiing. In addition to being a devoted member of his church, Doug serves as Board President for Kinship Mentoring of Columbia County, Board member of Schools for Haiti and Scripture Chair of the Gideons-Portage camp.
A graduate of MATC, Lois oversees Fearing’s daily book keeping along with various HR responsibilities.
Along with Doug, Lois is deeply connected to community outreach, serving as a Board member and Fundraising Committee Chairperson for Kinship Mentoring of Columbia County. She also serves on the Schools for Haiti Fundraising committee. In addition, Lois’ ongoing passion and commitment to provide care for the elderly comes from her 10-year history of working in a Reedsburg, Wisconsin Nursing home.
Lois enjoys singing, hiking, sunny days on the pontoon, and spending time with her 4 grandchildren.
Ehren drives Fearing’s technology by continually seeking out trends to enhance capabilities while supporting Sales, Engineering and Installation teams. Throughout his years with Fearing’s, Ehren’s talent and vision have joined forces to create a wide variety of projects and strategic solutions that exceed expectation.
Ehren loves music, family time, movies, nature, sustainability efforts and electric vehicles.
With 10 years with Fearing’s and over twice that long in the industry, Ben continues to lead, coordinate, and develop the Commercial AV team.
By consistently delivering an outstanding experience and outcome, Ben contributes to the Fearing’s legacy of long-lasting partnerships that truly make a difference. Whatever the Commercial AV need may be, Ben and team deliver at the highest level.
Ben is an avid fisherman and photographer. He enjoys coaching his sons and other youth.
Chris has been with Fearing’s for 20 years and in the industry for over 2 decades. As a Certified leader in Sales Acceleration and trained in EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating Systems), Chris successfully utilizes his skills to lead the Fearing’s Salesforce. Chris and team are motivated and driven to develop new client partnerships while continuing to reinforce loyal long-term relationships with ongoing Service excellence.
Married for 19 years with 3 children, Chris enjoys skiing, hiking, fishing, boating, hunting, camping and golf. He’s also been actively involved as a Youth Football and Softball coach for his family and others.
