Flat Panel Display Demand Rebounding; Up 12% Quarter On Quarter: Omdia November 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes Global demand is ticking back up for flat panel displays (FPD), with the research firm Omdia issuing a new supply and demand tracker report that suggests demand is up 12% from the previous quarter and 4% year on year. Q3 demand will is set to reach 220 million m2 in 2020, says PR related to …
Next AVIXA Power Hour Has Rock Star Panel To Talk LED In Commercial Spaces November 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes The next AVIXA Digital Signage Power Hour is set for Nov. 17, and it is another good one – with a focus on LED on real estate and a rock star panel. We will be talking about how and why property owners are installing big dollar, visually dominating LED video walls in the lobbies of …
Tourist Stop In Zurich Uses 19-Wide LCD Video Wall To Promote Destinations November 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes Big LCD-based video walls are growing less common as direct view LED takes over, but there are still some nice jobs out there – like this one at the Zurich Tourist Information Centre in Switzerland. The centre is located on the ground floor of the main concourse of Zurich Main station, and is there to …
More Details On The LED Set-Up At New Circa Resort In Las Vegas November 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes Daktronics has pushed out a fact sheet on ALL the direct view LED installed at the new Circa Resort and Casino, which opened last week on Fremont, in downtown Las Vegas. The resort has a MASSIVE sport book display inside, and giant displays poolside and on one facade of the hotel tower. The specs says: …
Sharp-NEC Finally Formalized; Now Sharp NEC Display Solutions, or SNDS November 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes The joint venture tie-up between Sharp Corporation and NEC Corporation has now been formalized, with the new company to be known from now on as Sharp NEC Display Solutions Ltd. (or SNDS). The JV is the result, from months ago, of Sharp acquiring 66% of shares for NEC Display Solutions Ltd. Sharp is owned by …
PORTL Closes $3M Raise, First COO; Reports 100 Hologram-ish Units Sold November 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes The LA startup that uses a highly optimized transparent LCD displays and enclosures to create life-sized, hologram-ish visual effects has completed a new $3 million fundraising round that will be used, in part, to devlop a small desktop version for content creators. Watching a video like this is the best way to explain PORTL, but …
6,000 Thermal Sensor Kiosks Running In, Psssst, Home Depots October 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes A smirking Hat Tip to Middletown, CT-based Reality Interactive for issuing a second press release about the same thing, and showing how tech companies are constrained by their clients in what they can say about big projects. The company put out PR recently indicating its contactless body temperature check screen-thingie was seeing marketplace adoption. First …
E-Paper Real-Time Transit Signs Dot Bus Routes in Portuguese City October 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is one of numerous solar-powered, off-grid e-paper transit information displays in the Portuguese city of Coimbra. The fourth-largest urban centre in Portugal, the City of Coimbra is connected by an extensive bus (and trolleybus) network, with more than 2,000 kilometres of routes and 1,350 bus stops. The city started installing fully autonomous, solar-powered displays …
STRATACACHE Closes Massive QSR Drive-Thru Deal With RBI October 28, 2020 by Dave Haynes Dayton, Ohio-based digital signage solutions company STRATACACHE has bagged and closed a massive deal that sees it providing software, hardware and services to three of the larger QSR chains in North America, The deal involves more than 40,000 screens at Burger King, Tim Hortons and Popeyes locations in Canada and the U.S. The focus is …
Pandemic Shifts Tech Priorities and Processes At Sports And Entertainment Venues October 28, 2020 by Dave Haynes Guest Post: Paul Kapustka, Mobile Sports Report This post originally appeared in Stadium Tech Report As some venues take baby steps forward in allowing limited fan attendance at events, for most venues the ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are forcing owners and operators to take a longer look at the technologies and procedures that …
