Planar Now Offering Lifetime Warranty On DV LED Product Series October 7, 2020 by Dave Haynes Portland-based display manufacturer Planar has started marketing a direct view LED product that comes with a lifetime warranty – though it is officially called the Planar EverCare Lifetime Limited Warranty. The warranty program applies to Planar TVF Series LED video walls that are deployed in North America. Says the PR: Planar EverCare offers: Lifetime Protection: Coverage …
In-Store Media Start-up Cooler Screens Closes $80M Series C Funding; Expanding Footprint October 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes Chicago-based in-store digital start-up Cooler Screens has closed a $80 million Series C funding round intended to expand the footprint of its product, which to their ever-lasting credit actually aligns with its name. The company does LCD displays in cooler doors in chain grocery and drug stores. I am a crotchety old fan of companies …
Samsung Marketing Bundled Outdoor LED Solution Aimed At SMBs, Schools, Churches October 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes Samsung has started marketing a bundled LED solution for outdoor applications – aimed at the SMB, QSR and education markets. I’ve seen a bunch of fixed size LED displays bundled with mounting and other components for indoor applications, but not sure there has been one for outdoor. For indoor, the big driver is simplifying the …
Epson Adds Pair Of Signage-Focused Ultra-Short Throw Projectors; Inc. CMS Software October 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes Epson has started marketing a pair of ultra short-throw projectors aimed at the digital signage market – using long-lived laser light engines and rolling in content management and creative software. The PowerLite 800 series projectors can blast a 1080P image as big as 130 inches diagonal from an overhead set-up that looks a bit like …
Acronym Conundrum – DV LED, DV-LED, DVLED, Something Else??? Should We Care??? September 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes I was trading messages with an industry friend Monday, who asked me what the preferred or most used acronym is for direct view LED displays. Was it DvLED? Or dvLED? Or DV LED??? I replied DV-LED, and he said that was a new one to he and his colleagues. So what is it? It was …
100s Of NYC Subway Info Screens Being Damaged By Vandals September 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes Via The City / Photo by Jose Martinez/THE CITY The non-profit NYC publisher The City has a post up about how vandalism is on the rise in the city’s subway system, and a primary target are the information displays in the stations and on platforms. And 200 window smashings have occurred since the early May shutdown …
Palmer Starts Marketing Electric Vehicle Charging Kiosks September 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a nice take on the idea of marrying a digital OOH outdoor-ready display with vehicle-charging technology, from Chicago-area custom display company Palmer Digital Group. Called EVTower, it’s a 55-inch outdoor obviously designed to work happily in all kinds of punishing climate conditions – from snow and cold to Phoenix in July. The unit …
New Vegas NFL Stadium Lights Up, Tests, Its Giant LED Mesh Facade September 16, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a smartphone cam shot of the media mesh LED wall turned on and being tweaked at the new Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, home of the relocated Raiders NFL team. The shot is from a Vegas sportswriter. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Default. To access the actual content, click the …
Huge Samsung 70,000 Halo LED Display Used For First Time At LA’s New SoFi Stadium September 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes The NFL is now into its season and one of the new venues is SoFi Stadium in LA, which has, among many things, a 70,000 sq. ft. LED halo videoboard hanging over the playing surface. The dual-sided Samsung display is touted as having the only 4K end-to-end video production in a stadium, though I am …
LG Launches Its Own MicroLED Video Wall For Signage; And Maybe Russian Oligarchs September 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes LG has started marketing its own microLED display across several key global markets, including the Americas, Europe, and Asia, under the brand name LG MAGNIT. LG is touting what it calls a proprietary Black Coating display technology that seems to be a variation on the “potted” or “glue-on-board” display modules that have come out in …
