SNA Wins That Massive Times Square LED Video Wall Job That Includes Embedded Stage May 17, 2019 by Super User Sansi, more widely known as SNA Displays, has won the LED job for that big new Times Square video wall that includes a built-in live performance stage. A press release says real estate investment firms L&L Holding Company, Fortress Investment Group and Maefield Development, alongside consultant Sensory Interactive, chose SNA to manufacture and install the …
Smart City Poster Meets Match In NYC Sidewalk Vendor May 17, 2019 by Super User Spotted by a reader – 23rd and 6th in Lower Manhattan. I would assume Intersection has something written in to its agreement about line of sight for its LinkNYC screens, but street vendors aren’t going to care.
Pix And Vids From SID Display Week 2019 May 16, 2019 by Super User If you don’t use Linkedin much, here’s the many things I’ve posted over there in the last few days – embedded here as there are pix and short videos. Notice this one — the display film is damaged
OLED Is A Thing, And Other Thoughts From SID Display Week May 15, 2019 by Super User I pulled the ripcord this afternoon after 2.5+ days at Display Week. My brain hurt, and the symposium sessions in the afternoon looked terrifyingly technical. It does not help that English is not the first language of many/most of the technical presenters – so you get a Japanese guy, an engineer or researcher, doing a …
Day Two Impressions From SID Display Week May 15, 2019 by Super User Random insights, so far, from SID Display Week in San Jose, CA: The display industry is slowing down, with compounded annual growth expected to sit at around 4% for next eight or nine years: Touch Display Report forecast; LCD sales will be flat-ish, over that time, but OLED sales will grow steadily: also from Touch …
Trying To Nerd Out, And Mostly Failing, At Display Week May 13, 2019 by Super User The Society for Information Display is a non-profit group run by display industry people, and it holds an annual trade show and conference that pulls in many to most of the top-level display engineers in that business. Display Week, as the event is called, is this week in San Jose, CA, and I am attending …
Spain’s TRISON Acquires UK-based Digital Signage Agency Beaver Group May 13, 2019 by Super User Big pro AV news out of Spain and the UK earlier today, with the TRISON Group announcing its acquisition of Beaver Group, which has done many of the better QSR and retail digital signage jobs in the UK in recent years. TRISON is Europe’s biggest digital signage-focused integrator – kinda like Diversified, but in Galician …
Seattle DSF Mixer Gets The Understory On Amazon’s Spheres May 9, 2019 by Super User It took going to Seattle to remember and realize a few things about the city and region. First, there are some really big, impactful companies out here – like Amazon, Microsoft, Costco, Boeing and a little coffee chain called Starbucks. Second, there’s more of a signage ecosystem than is maybe obvious. I am in Seattle …
Broadsign Acquires DOOH Ad Exchange Campsite May 8, 2019 by Super User Broadsign owner and CEO Burr Smith is seemingly the man of the moment in the digital OOH business. He made some waves by acquiring crosstown rival Ayuda Media Systems in late April, and he’ll no doubt stir things up again with news his company has acquired the digital OOH ad exchange Campsite, which like Broadsign …
Reports: NewAd Acquired By Canadian Telecoms And Media Giant Bell May 3, 2019 by Super User Montreal-based out of home media company NewAd has been acquired by Bell Media, the Canadian telecoms and media conglomerate. NewAd built its business putting out of home posters in bars and restaurants, competing across Canada with another Montreal company, Zoom. The deal will see NewAd’s portfolio – which started as analog but added digital – …
