Compared
LEDBC is German, it folds a 16k-wide stripe into a standard video output live rather than pre-rendering it, and German trade press names it as one of the two specialist perimeter programs. The difference between us is mostly one decision, made in opposite directions.
First, fairly
Their site puts the design decision plainly: fold the content live instead of pre-rendering it. A 16k-pixel-wide board becomes a 1080p output in real time, and colour grading happens live, per media file or per board, with an RGB mixer. Nothing has to be prepared before it can be shown.
They meet the marketing department where it is. Playlists load straight from an Excel sheet, with a mapping worksheet that pulls in the right media files, which is exactly how sponsor rundowns arrive at most clubs.
And they report: a digital report of the played content with timestamps, exported as a sheet with the start and end time of every slot.
Side by side
USM’s column is what our software does today. The LEDBC column is what their own site says, checked on 22 September 2026. Where it says their site does not state something, that is exactly what it means: ask them.
| USM Boarding | LEDBC | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | The perimeter, fascia and ribbon. One licence covers one PC and up to nine screens. | LED perimeter boards in live production, from a German vendor. |
| Fitting artwork to the wall | Artwork is laid onto the wall as a reusable sequence and prepared before it plays, at the wall’s exact pixel geometry. | Folds a stripe up to 16k pixels wide into a standard output live, with live colour grading per media file or per board. |
| Redundancy | A backup PC mirrors the main one all match and takes the wall after about 5 s of silence on a 1 s heartbeat. | A second laptop runs the interface as backup, and one click promotes it to main. |
| Proof of play | Logged to 1/100 s per screen, exported per fixture as PDF or Excel. | A digital report of the played content with timestamps, exported with the start and end time of every slot. |
| Building content remotely | Projects are built in a browser and played out on the venue rig. The two stay in sync. | Their site does not state browser-based or remote project building. |
| LED hardware monitoring | Reads the NovaStar processors behind the wall: cabinets, temperature, main and backup cable, with email alerts and 13 months of history. | Their site does not state LED processor or cabinet monitoring. |
| Control-room integrations | NDI out, scoreboard and live text, Stream Deck through Companion, and an HTTP trigger API. | Excel playlist import with a mapping worksheet. |
| Price | Published, with a configurator. You can price a two-screen rig without talking to us. | Not published on their site. |
| When the playout PC dies | The operator moves the licence to another PC themselves, twice in any six months. Support-assisted moves are never counted. | Their site does not state what happens to a licence when its machine is replaced. |
| Who supports it | Maxamaze BV in Belgium, which also installs and operates LED at venues. | LEDBC, Germany. |
Where they beat us
Live folding is the opposite of what USM does. We prepare a sequence against the wall geometry before it airs, which is what makes playout cheap and predictable on ordinary hardware, and what makes a change something you prepare rather than nudge mid-rotation. If your operator works during the show, their model fits that better than ours.
They are German, in a market where being German matters, and their Excel import is a nicer front door for a marketing department than anything we offer today.
Where we would argue for ourselves, and this is the sharp one: their site describes the backup as a second laptop running the interface, promoted with one click. That click needs a person who has noticed. USM fails over on its own after about five seconds of silence on a one-second heartbeat, because the failure we are designing for is the operator being the last to know.
Beyond that: projects built in a browser rather than on the venue PC, a log at a hundredth of a second with PDF and Excel per fixture, LED monitoring that reads the processors behind the wall, and a published price.
Which one
your perimeter is driven live by an operator who wants to change content while it plays, your rundowns arrive as spreadsheets, and a human deciding when to switch to the backup is acceptable.
you want the switch to happen without anybody deciding, the fixture prepared in advance and off-site, the wall monitored down to the cabinet, and the sponsor report to be evidence rather than a printout.
Everything in the LEDBC column is from their public website, read on 22 September 2026. We are not affiliated with them and this page is ours, not theirs. Products change: if something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will correct it. LEDBC website
Send us your perimeter geometry and a sponsor file that has given you trouble. We will show you what USM does with it, and if the honest answer is that the other product suits you better, we will say so.