Those Spinning LED Wand Thingies Find An Application – Public Art March 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes The madly spinning LED wands that started showing up at AV trade shows maybe four years ago have always been good at attracting crowds at booths, but I’ve not seen or read much that suggests broad adoption in the real world. I think the things are eye candy that stops being visually interesting pretty quickly, …
See The Difference Between Coated And “Naked” DV LED Modules March 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes I’ve written a few times about the hardened, engineered coatings that some direct view LED manufacturers are using on their modules to better protect against damage. It’s been a little hard to explain and even harder to show in trade show photos I’ve grabbed, but this close-up comparison image does a good job. This is …
Start Up Road Runner Plans 1,000 Ad Screens On The Backs Of Commercial Panel Vans March 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes The digital OOH startup that sees a business model in putting high bright LCDs on the backs of commercial vehicles has done a substantial deal to put screens on panel vans owned by the smart infrastructure firm Siemens. Road Runner Media had run a trial with Siemens on 16 vehicles in 3 markets during 2019 …
Using Low-Rez LEDs And Fabric To Create Interesting Ambient Visual Experiences March 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes Most of the marketing and much of the design execution for LED has been focused, rightly, on increasingly fine pixel pitch displays and tight resolutions, but there’s an interested diversion some designers are taking with addressable LED lights. Banks and commercial property developers may regard a big DV LED video wall as a rounding error …
C-Store Chain Kwik Trip Finishes 1,000+ Screen Rollout Across US Midwest March 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes The commercial display company PPDS, aka Philips, has announced the completion of a smart digital signage rollout to some 700 Kwik Trip convenience stores across the U.S. midwest. The c-store chain started a modernization program in 2018 and now has more than 1,000 screens in place – all of them Philips D-Line displays with embedded …
Public Information Display Market Sagged By Almost 10% In COVID-19 Era: Research March 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes COVID-19 was bad for just about every industry, so it is no surprise that the digital signage display business had a rough 2020. New numbers from the research firm Omdia suggests overall 2020 public information display shipments were down 9.8% year-on-year. But, a little surprisingly, Latin America, Japan, and the China region actually saw some …
SID Display Week Set For May 17-21, All Virtual For 2nd Year March 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Society for Information Display (SID) has opened registration for its annual Display Week trade show and conference, which will again be all virtual, running May 17-21. The event is an annual gathering of terrifyingly bright engineers and researchers in the information display sector, talking about ideas and advances in area like LED, OLED, Light …
Pro Tip: Secure LED Video Wall To Wall, Floor … Or, Ummm, Something. Or This Happens … March 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is the broadcast set for ESPN’s football coverage in Colombia, and part of the visual sizzle is an LED video wall. As the brief video in the tweet embedded below shows, it is probably a good idea to affix DV LED walls to the back wall, or if that is not feasible, at least …
PPDS Helps Turn Suite At Dutch Football Grounds Into Flexible Meeting Space March 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is only nominally digital signage, but kind of interesting, nonetheless. PPDS – the company that sells Philips professional TV and digital signage products and solutions – has worked with Atlona and Panduit on a networked display solution for the corporate suites at the stadium that is home to the big Dutch football club PSV …
Samsung V/X Preview – MagicINFO Coming Soon In A SaaS Version March 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes Samsung has advanced tomorrow’s Samsung V/X Live online conference, running through a set of product plans for the coming months that include . The company will be launching a cloud-hosted, managed SaaS version of its MagicINFO digital signage CMS software. Until now, the software has been on-premise only. The new version will have feature-parity with …
