More Hacked Signs And More Naughty Content – This Time In Detroit September 30, 2019 by Super User A reader pointed out a second digital signage screen hack from this weekend, this one on a digital OOH highway billboard in suburban Detroit. The big digital board was, like one in Auckland, NZ, showing porn video material. The Detroit Free Press reports it happened late Saturday night and the racy material was up for …
Screens Above NZ Shoe Store Hacked To Run Porn Video September 30, 2019 by Super User If the need to lock down a public-facing digital signage display wasn’t obvious already, here’s an example from New Zealand of what happens when operators either don’t, or don’t do it well enough. The New Zealand Herald is reporting that someone – presumably hackers – penetrated the media play-out device that drives content on the …
BenQ Touts New “Pantone Validated” Digital Signage Display Series September 27, 2019 by Super User Commercial display companies are always and understandably looking for ways to differentiate their products from other manufacturers that make, to most eyes, pretty similar-looking versions of the same thing. So it was interesting to read news that Taiwan-based BenQ has announced the launch of what it touts to be the world’s first digital signage display …
AUO CEO Paul Peng On How His Display Giant Plays In Digital Signage September 25, 2019 by Super User I was in Taiwan recently for a trade show called Touch Taiwan, and managed to grab 20 minutes with Paul Peng, the Chairman and CEO of display manufacturing giant AU Optronics. AUO is based in Taiwan, with its main office about an hour south of Taipei in the manufacturing city of Hsinchu. The company has …
DSCC Research Shows Asian Panel-Makers Had Tough Couple Of Quarters September 23, 2019 by Super User Research firm DSCC’s Quarterly Display Supply Chain Financial Health Report suggests the major display panel makers in China, Korea and Taiwan are in the midst of a rough patch, with nine of the 13 panel makers tracked having year to year revenue declines. The industry tracking also suggests many of the companies recorded losses in the …
This LED Pivots And Shape-Shifts Using Industrial Robotics September 23, 2019 by Super User This is a pivoting LED display that would go nicely in something like an airport or exhibition/convention hall, with a set of five blades that can link up as one large face or break out and pivot separately. The manufacturer is PJ Link, and this was/is at LED China, which I think was last week …
Chinese LED Maker Attaches Transparent LED To Sliding Glass Shop Doors September 23, 2019 by Super User I’ve seen projection on sliding glass doors, but this transparent mesh LED that’s attached in some way to a pair of glass sliders that serve as an entry to a shop, or something, in China. A sensor triggers the doors to open and content to change as someone approaches and passes through. This is from …
October Conference Focusing On Light Field Displays, Other New Display Tech September 18, 2019 by Super User A lot of companies – mainly startups – have been scratching away for years at display technology that is called three-dimensional or holographic. Sometimes the terms are misappropriated and things get called holograms, for example, when display nerds will say, “Nuh-uh. That’s not a hologram.” One of the reasons I went to the SID display …
LG’s Garry Wicka On The Merits And Prospects For OLED In Digital Signage September 18, 2019 by Super User LG has gone very big on OLED displays in recent years – making the super-thin, flexible and generally gorgeous displays the centerpiece of the company’s marketing efforts at trade shows. They bend, they curve, they hang like wallpaper and for some of them, they’re see-through. I had a chance to grab a very busy Garry …
Start-up Gets US Patent For Powering Screens Via Transparent Solar Film September 17, 2019 by Super User A Silicon Valley-based MIT spin-out has been granted a patent for technology that would potentially integrate solar power harvesting and usage within outdoor digital signage displays. Ubiquitous Energy says the new US patent extends the coverage of its ClearView Power technology to display applications. The patent, U.S. Patent 10,403,774, describes a method in which solar technology can …
