Samsung’s Prosumer Digital Signage TV Bundles Find Home In 2,300+ Classrooms September 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes Samsung has set up an interesting partnership that sees its entry-level, small business-focused digital signage solution Pro TV used in classrooms for distance learning and collaboration. The electronics giant partnered with Academica – one of the largest charter school support organizations in the U.S. – to “reimagine the classroom for the 21st century.” Feedback from …
KC’s Keywest Touts NanoShield Film It Says Self-Disinfects Touchscreens In <15 Mins September 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Kansas City-area digital signage solutions firm Keywest Technology has started marketing a copper-infused antimicrobial film – called NanoShield – its makers claim will self-disinfect something like a touchscreen in less than 15 minutes. NanoShield uses copper nanotechnology, Keywest says, to reduce viruses and bacteria by more than 99.99 percent on digital signage, surfaces and …
Scotland’s Edinburgh Int’l Airport Adds Vast LED Wall To Revamped Check-in Hall September 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes The UK’s AV Magazine has a great piece up online about new digital work done at the international airport outside of Edinburgh, Scotland – with the focal point a super-wide LED display in the check-in hall. The initial plan was a row of tiled LCDs, perhaps inspired by what was done at Orlando’s airport. But …
LED Walls Front Giant New Training Room For Transport Solutions Firm September 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is the big training room at the newly-built corporate headquarters in Atlanta of SMC3 – which uses a pair of fine pitch LEDs to showcase the company’s products, train employees, and host corporate events. The company – which does solutions for the trucking industry – built in a training room that seats up to 500 …
Costa Rica’s Idea Media Develops Own IOT-driven Health Safety Kiosk September 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes Back in May, 16:9 related the story of a Costa Rican digital signage solutions company that, like many, had been adjusting its business and offer to deal with the pandemic. I liked, at the time, that the company was not just taking something from China and reselling it. Four months later, I checked in …
Yodeck Now Supporting NEC’s Raspberry Pi-based Smart Displays September 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes It has been a few years since NEC Display bucked the big trend toward hard-wired System on Chip displays by instead focusing on smart displays that could be upgraded just by opening a trap door and swapping out the smarts. There has not been a mad rush to go down NEC’s path, as the platform …
Display Manufacturer Prysm Goes Chapter 11; Collaboration SW Arm Sold Off August 28, 2020 by Dave Haynes Via Inavate The Silicon Valley tech company Prysm has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, selling off the collaboration software software and handing over other assets to Kuwaiti backers. The company bubbled up more than 10 years with display tiles that were similar in shape and use as Christie’s original MicroTiles, though using laser phospor technology …
Primeview Debuts Giant 32:9 Ratio Turnkey LED Display August 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes The New York-based LED display solutions company Primeview has announced a new line of indoor turn-key LED displays, including what the company says is the world’s first 32×9 aspect ratio standard, 3840×1080 pixel resolution, bezel-free panel display. The units come in 1.2mm, 1.5mm, 1.9mm or 2.5mm pixel pitch, and are geared to digital signage applications …
Innolux Demos Rollable 55-Inch MiniLED Display That Unfurls From Housing August 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes Photo Credit: LED Inside The Taiwan-based display manufacturer Innolux has started showing demos of a new kind of rollable 55-inch screen that uses direct view miniLED and is touted as a better, less expensive version of LG’s rollable OLEDs. The company, part of the huge Foxconn group of tech companies, did a product premiere this …
D3, Southpaw Live Merge Their LED Businesses August 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes A pair of well-established direct view LED companies have merged, creating what they’re touting as a “powerful mix of the best minds in LED engineering,” developing a proprietary American product line. The merger is between Texas-based Southpaw Live and California-based D3 LED. Located in suburban Dallas, Southpaw has been around for 30 years and focuses …
