How Businesses Can Remain Connected During COVID-19 April 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes Guest Post: Colin Farquhar, VITEC One year on from lockdowns imposed in countries around the world and we now face a starkly different world. No one could have predicted the far-reaching impact that the COVID-19 outbreak would have and how phrases such as ‘social distancing’ and ‘lockdown’ would become standard in people’s vocabulary. But today, …
Fingrid Welcomes HQ Visitors With Big, Curved Reception Video Wall April 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes Video walls in company lobbies are not new, and neither are curves built into LED video walls. But here’s a nice example of a video wall in an office that does a nice job of working with the curve. This in the Helsinki lobby of Fingrid. It’s a curved LG DV LED wall, put in …
PORTL Puts Swiss Timepiece Execs At Shanghai Trade Show, Without Leaving Alps April 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes I’m a big fan of what PORTL is doing with its remote display system, for use-cases like new luxury watch launches and demos done by a Swiss firm for a recent trade show many time zones away in Shanghai. The timepiece firm IWC used PORTL’s display and software system to have its CEO and rock …
Huge 50 Meter-Wide LED Video Wall Used As Changeable Set By Chinese State Broadcaster April 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a huge LED video wall – 50 meters by 10 meters tall – being used for an ever-changeable broadcast set by a Chinese state broadcaster. The curved wall was put up to help run a two-hour live TV event recently, called CCTV Consumer Rights Day Gala. I will leave it to other, more …
LED Pulse Turns Suspended Light Strings Into Low-Rez Three-Dimensional Motion Display April 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip – Sound and Video Contractor A Hong Kong company has started showing a display system that uses suspended LED strings – with each light emitter mapped and addressable – to create motion visuals that have volume and dimension. The system from LED Pulse is called Dragon O. It can be scaled up to …
AUO Latest Display Giant To Add MicroLED To Product Portfolio; Showing Demos At TouchTaiwan April 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes I wrote earlier today about Touch Taiwan going ahead as a live trade show next week, aimed at a domestic crowd and in an island country that is seeing just a handful of new COVID cases day to day. An industry friend sent along a show promo video from AUO – a Taiwan company that …
Growth Expected In Bundled, All-In-One DV LED Displays: Omdia April 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes There is now enough activity and demand in the area of all-in-one, bundled LED displays to warrant marketplace research and analysis, with a new report from the global research firm Omdia looking specifically at this narrowly-defined product category. Omdia has broken out data from its regular LED Video Displays Market Tracker to look specifically at …
IDtechEx Report Takes Deep Dive On MicroLED; Full Report Is $6K, But Here’s Exec Summary April 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes The UK-based research firm and consultancy IDtechEx has pushed out an interesting discussion paper about the state and potential marketplace applications for microLED, sorting out its value proposition versus competing technologies like OLED and Quantum Dots LCDs. Unlike other reports from legit research firms (most of the “research” on digital signage tech comes out of …
Nudge: Looking For More Responses To Workplace Digital Signage Survey (Takes Minutes!) April 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes I am looking for more responses to the workplace digital signage survey I pushed out earlier in the week, which is gathering insights about how the tech fits in workplaces that are, or will soon be, repopulating. The survey is just a Google form and you should be able to bomb through it in a …
Lots Of Kiosk Screens, No Digital Menu Displays, In New All-Digital Times Square Taco Bell April 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes Taco Bell opened its first digital-only restaurant in the U.S. yesterday, a New York’s Times Square “Cantina” store that has no order counter or menu boards. The only way to order is ahead of time online or by mobile, or in-store using one of 10 self-order kiosks. Order-ahead customers can use a separate entrance and …
