How Outdoor Screens Can Win The Ongoing Fight With The Sun April 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes Guest Post: Mark Madigan, MAC Thin Films Putting big LCD screens outside, in direct sunlight, presents a major technical design challenge, but probably not the challenge you have in mind. Making screens bright enough to be viewable in the glare of the sun has long since been sorted out. The real challenge, still, is keeping …
Massive Samsung LED Wall Fills Lobby Wall In LVCC’s Almost-Open West Hall February 5, 2026April 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes While the pandemic has meant most people in our industry put a stop to pretty regular swings though Las Vegas for trade shows and conferences, that city’s primary convention center has been expanding its footprint and is just about ready to open. When I was last in that city, the LVCC expansion was just in …
Wallboard Shows Why On-Demand Video Product Demos Make Sense April 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes I pretty much write for a living, but in the context of the industry I cover, I’m usually much happier when a vendor shows me what a product or services does, as opposed to making me read about it. So I think a new YouTube demo series put out by the Hungarian/American CMS company Wallboard …
Jakarta LED Billboard Mimics Surroundings To Create 3D Visuals April 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes There have been several videos relayed here in the last couple of years, showing impressive anamorphic 3D visuals on outdoor digital ad boards. But they’ve all been on displays that wrap around a 90-degree corner, and they only tend to show the “effect” from a certain, narrow angle. This is another take at anamorphic, on …
Samsung Marketing LED Display Bundle Aimed At Analog Sign And Printing Ecosystem April 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes Numerous display manufacturers have introduced bundled direct view LED solutions as a way of simplifying the specification and selling of technology that remains unfamiliar to a lot of the pro AV sector. Samsung is borrowing on that notion with a display bundle aimed at the traditional sign sector, highlighting an outdoor solution that “all-in-one display …
LGA’s Much-Needed Reno Job Includes Dozens Of New LG Flight And Passenger Info Displays April 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes I haven’t been through New York’s LaGuardia airport since moving to east coast Canada, as what flights that do get out of Halifax to New York head mostly to Newark. Plus COVID. But I’ve been aware that the much-loathed airport in Queens was finally transitioning from the look, feel and state of what you’d encounter …
Tooshlights Makes Real-Time Toilet Occupancy Data Available For Digital Signs April 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes RH Image: TRAX Analytics Some of the best data integrations that can be done between sensors and systems, and digital signage networks, is tapping into real time data that can visually indicate what’s going on. You’ve likely seen digital signs that show the availability of stalls, overall and floor by floor, in large parkades. Now …
New Family Resort Using Digital Signage To Message Across Massive Physical Footprint February 5, 2026March 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes Most of the PR that comes in about work in resorts tends to be for casinos, and the giant displays the owners put into the sports books and on the sides of the building. Here’s a good example of a digital signage install across a full report property, in this case the new family-focused, non-casino …
Brilliant Example Of Digital Merged With Mechanical For Engaging Interactive Work March 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is brilliant stuff … famous works of art digitized and playfully integrated with old-school mechanical devices to make them interactive. The exhibit is called Mechanical Masterpieces – a collection of paintings reimagined by artist Neil Mendoza for the 21st century. Optimized for short attention spans, it allows viewers to poke, switch, disco, inflate and …
Here’s A Modest But Good Example Of How DV LED Offers Up Design, Install Flexibility March 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes One of the key arguments made for using direct view LED is its modularity – the ability to build a video wall that meets shapes that aren’t just 16:9 rectangles. Here’s a modest little DV LED video display done by integrator AVI SPL for Advent Health, that shows what can be done with LED, that …
