How Pro AV Is Trying To Navigate All The Tariffs Uncertainty: AVIXA Experts April 17, 2025 by Super User The pro AV trade association AVIXA has a market intelligence team that steadily looks at the U.S. and global business from key angles like growth and overall health, as well as the impacts of factors like supply chain (huge during the COVID era) and most recently, tariffs. They do a video podcast called Exceptional Insights, …
Free Futuresource Analysis Looks At Industry Perspective, Workarounds For Current Tariffs Turmoil April 16, 2025 by Super User The research firm Futuresource Consulting has pro AV as a main focus and has, predictably, started to weigh in on the pinballing global tariffs situation – publishing a complementary bulletin called “Tariff Reflections on the Road” that reflects what analysts are hearing from makers and buyers at industry events like NAB. Among the interesting notes …
Ticketing Starts (And Likely Ends) Tomorrow For XUSC Mixer At InfoComm April 15, 2025 by Super User Several emails have been coming in asking about plans for a Sixteen:Nine Mixer at InfoComm, including sponsorship requests, but I am both sorry and happy to report that there are no plans for a mixer in Orlando. Sorry because people enjoy them. Happy because planning and executing mixers is a pile of work. But there …
Realfiction, PlayNitride Unveiling New Kind Of Glasses-Free 3D Display Based Around MicroLED April 15, 2025 by Super User Touch Taiwan starts tomorrow in Taipei and among the announcements advancing manufacturers’ showcases is one involving a tie-up between a domestic company, PlayNitride, and Danish specialty display company Realfiction, for a new kind of glasses-free 3D display that uses MicroLED. What is touted as the world’s first MicroLED-based 3D display is a 9-inch unit that …
Chinese TVs Not Part Of Relaxed Electronics Tariffs, But Flat Panels Appear To Be Exempted: Counterpoint April 14, 2025 by Super User Just to muddy the supply chain outlook a bit more, a new post by display supply chain experts Counterpoint Research notes that the tariffs on electronics that were relaxed this weekend exclude TVs – so if you were planning to by a big ole Hisense for watching, I dunno, the NHL playoffs, they’ll soon cost …
The Digital Signage Ecosystem Has At Least 1,200 Companies, New Directory Suggests April 14, 2025 by Super User I have gone down the path two or three times of trying to build up a database of all of the companies in the digital signage ecosystem, starting with grand plans but then getting distracted and leaving the things dormant. So I was pleased and impressed to read of a directory with some 1,200 validated …
Punitive US Tariffs On China-Origin Electronics Off For 90 Days … Or Are They??? April 14, 2025 by Super User It LOOKS like – ALL CAPS on LOOKS because as we’ve seen this is a moving target and the guy behind all this is fond of ALL CAPS – the digital signage and pro AV industries have been given a huge break as word broke that crippling US tariffs on Chinese imports to that market …
Tik Tok Video: Small Town Businesses Use Road Signs To Playfully Taunt Each Other April 11, 2025 by Super User Some Friday fun to take your mind off all the nuttiness for a minute or two … This is a bit dated but great – a playful sign war in a small Missouri town that had various businesses needling each other or just adding some color. The first signs were analog but operators with outdoor …
Research: OLED Display Sales Have Surged (Pre-Tariffs), But MiniLED-Lit LCD Sales Even Hotter April 11, 2025 by Super User Setting aside tariffs (somehow), here’s a look at the state of OLED TV shipments pre-tariffs chaos from the research firm Omdia – which suggests consumers are increasingly big on the skinny and vivid flat panels. The company’s latest monthly TV shipment tracking data shows 19.2% year-on-year growth in global OLED shipments, as of February 2025. …
Tariffs Analysis: Higher Prices, Lower Sales Volumes And Lots Of Uncertainty April 11, 2025 by Super User Very arguably, about the only certainty right now with the supply chain and costs for the electronics that are fundamental to digital signage deployments is that there is no certainty. While displays, PCs and other gear are coming from all over the place, a lot of the components originate in China – which as I …
