Projection Whacked, LED And LCD Sales Less Hard-Hit In 2020: Futuresource March 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes The research firm Futuresource Consulting has confirmed what we all pretty much knew – the past year wasn’t great for much of anything, including the professional displays industry. Futuresource’s tracking services show that in terms of volume, projection was the hardest hit across 2020, down by almost a third in total. LCD Flat Panel Displays …
Sharp NEC Display Focuses Digital Signage Screen Products Around New Message Series March 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes Sharp NEC Display Solutions has announced its new MultiSync Message Series of digital signage-focused commercial displays – which falls roughly into the old good, better and best thing. Marketers, undoubtedly, would prefer Amazing, Even More Amazing and Holy Freaking Sh*T as the tiers, but … The portfolio breaks down as the ME, M and MA Series …
Brazilian Mega-Development Uses Mosaic LCD Video Wall To Drive Leasing Sales March 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes Mosaic video walls used to be something that I’d see used quite often in digital signage projects, but the rise of DV LED seems to have curbed their use. Here’s a great example of one that went up at a sales center for a big real estate project in Brazil. Parque Global is billed as …
Wraparound DV LED Ribbon Tops New Frictionless Hudson Shop At Love Field In Dallas March 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s more evidence that DV LED is mainstreaming – an LED header ribbon display on a grab’n’go newsstand at Dallas Love Field Airport. Located post-security near Gate 10, the Hudson Nonstop stand opened up on Feb. 22, offering contactless shopping that uses Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology (the kind used at Amazon Go stores). “The …
Samsung Launches First All-In-One Self-Service Kiosk March 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes Samsung has broadened its reach in QSR and retail by introducing its own 24-inch interactive ordering screen – starting in South Korea but intending to bring it to other markets. Samsung Kiosk – thumbs up for the to-the-point name – is an all-in-one LCD with a touch layer, using an SoC as the player and …
Three Paris Shops Sync’d Up With DV LED Screens In Windows, Entries February 5, 2026February 27, 2021 by Dave Haynes The great majority of the projects I come across in retail involve a single flagship store, so it was interesting to come across a group of coordinated DV LED window and entry screen projects involving a French retailer in Paris. Digital AV has a post up about three locations of Fnac Paris using large-format digital …
NYC Financial Services Offices Add Experiential Digital To Workplace Atmosphere February 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is the lobby and an upstairs lounge that have been digitally re-imagined by ESI Design for a financial services company in its New York City offices. ESI doesn’t say who, which means it can’t – as is often the case with big-name accounts. The client wanted to rejuvenate the arrival experience in the building’s …
Does Anyone Need A 165″ TV That Slowly Rises Out Of The Floor, And Unfolds? No, But … February 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes
Start-up Road Runner Gets Financing To Roll Out DOOH Network On Fleet Vehicles February 23, 2021 by Dave Haynes I suppose if a taxi or ride-share service can puts ad screens on top of vehicles, it stands to reason the same media model could be applied to vehicles in commercial fleets, putting screens on the back-access doors of cargo vans. Road Runner Media, a DOOH startup based in Orange County (LA), has a financing …
Samsung’s V/X Live Virtual Conference Set for March 4th February 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes We’re still months away, probably, from having safe in person events, so some of the largest manufacturers and distributors are filling the gap with virtual events – including a session by one of the biggest vendors out there, Samsung. The electronics giant has organized a special one-day virtual conference on March 4th, called Samsung V/X Live. …
