CRI Feeling Chip Shortage; Big Rollouts Delayed May 18, 2021 by Super User When I put out a request for reader insights about the global chip shortage and the impacts on businesses, I maybe should not have been surprised by the lack of response. I had a few who were willing to share, but only off the record. It’s one of those debates many companies are probably having …
Display Week: Need A Bigger Desktop Monitor? How About A 89-Inch Curved MicroLED? May 18, 2021 by Super User I am looking at a big, curved monitor as I type this, and while it seemed crazily large when I first got it, I’ve had it long enough now to vaguely think, “I’d maybe get something bigger if I could.” I would not, for example, say no to getting a real-world version of this prototype …
Display Week: Sun Vision Display Touts Outdoor LCD Display With Up To 95% Less Energy Usage May 18, 2021 by Super User This a demo video from the SID Display Week virtual stand for an Illinois company called Sun Vision Display, which is showing an outdoor-rated LCD display that uses reflective LCD technology. The company uses reflective LCD technology to work WITH bright sunlight, instead of cranking up the brightness on a conventional LED backlight array to …
Display Week: DSCC’s Analysis Suggest MicroLED A Niche Product; Manufacturing Challenges Remain May 17, 2021 by Super User MicroLED has received a ton of buzz in digital signage circles the last 2-3 years because of the proposition of building big seamless video walls that look as good as LCD or OLED. The big barrier to widespread adoption has been cost – driven in part by a need to make production more efficient and …
Display Week: Japan Display Shows Transparent LCD As Variation On COVID Shields May 17, 2021 by Super User Japan Display or JDI – a specialty LCD display manufacturer owned by Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi – had some of the more impressive tech at Display Week that last time it was an in-person show. This week, the company has a virtual stand at the event and I was intrigued by a link to a …
Display Week: E Ink Shows Its Advances In Color, Motion E-Paper Displays May 17, 2021 by Super User E Ink has a stand at the virtual SID Display Week, and this video (below) walks through where the company is at with things like showing color and animations. Every year, the product gets a little closer to something that competes favorably with more established technology, most notably LCD. You can see in the video …
Display Week: BenQ Touts Back To Back Transparent OLEDs; Use-Case Kinda Fuzzy May 17, 2021 by Super User The Society For Information Display’s Display Week is now live – virtual like most things, still. It is a display nerd fest that is aimed much more at engineers than end-users, and it is a serious challenge for people like me who never even mused about a career in advanced polymers or electrical engineering. I …
Noodles Pop From LED Screen With Anamorphic Creative Project In Beijing May 14, 2021 by Super User This is a particularly good example of anamorphic three-dimensional creative on a street corner DV LED display. It is above a corner building in a Beijing shopping district, and like many to most of these visuals we’re seeing a lot of these days, the effects work best when viewed from a specific angle. The creative …
The AV Business Started By Al And Mo Marks 75 Years May 14, 2021 by Super User While the digital signage industry is still quite young, the broader AV has a longer history, with companies like distributor Almo sending out news that it is marking 75 years in business this year. It also cleared up a small question I’ve always had about the corporate name. Turns out the business was founded in …
World Out of Home Organization Launching New Audience Measurement Initiative May 13, 2021 by Super User Audience measurement is a huge factor in the out of home media business – both analog and digital – and the global volunteer body that’s trying to herd the media company cats has developed a set of guidelines designed to help more easily sell the mediums. The World Out of Home Organization (or WOO) will …
