Denver’s 900 LED Light Pole Welcome Sign Switched Off For Fix, Less Than Two Years After Lighting Up April 22, 2019 by Super User An ambitious project that was intended to generate new revenues for Denver’s airport, and showcase the innovative LED technology of Panasonic, has run into big problems less than two years after it was first switched on. The $14.5 million art and ad media piece features 900 LED light poles in a 1,000 foot curving line …
Brian McClimans On How Peerless-AV Is A Lot More Than Just Digital Signage Mounts April 17, 2019 by Super User The companies who do the infrastructure that gets screens in place and make video walls look amazing are a huge part of the digital signage ecosystem, but don’t get all that much attention. One of the biggest – if not THE biggest – is Chicago-based Peerless-AV, which has been a major part of digital signage …
Samsung Kits Out Shipping Container For Parking Lot Pro AV Tour April 16, 2019 by Super User Pro AV road shows have been a staple of distributors like Almo for many years, and the display companies have also done variations here and there, most notably the big showcases NEC and LG do each year in New York. But I don’t think I’ve seen one like what Samsung is starting this week. Today, …
Reno’d Dallas Hotel Adds Big Pair Of LED Art Columns To Entry April 11, 2019 by Super User This is a nice LED art piece that wraps around two columns at the entrance of the newly-renovated Sheraton Dallas Hotel. The historic hotel’s entrance uses 2.5mm LED modules from SNA Displays. Each of the eight faces on the columns measures 8’10” high and 3’11” wide, and has a resolution of 1,080 pixels tall by …
LED Mesh Screens Have Come A Long Way, But … April 11, 2019 by Super User There were numerous overseas vendors at ISE – and I expect to see more at Infocomm in a couple of months – showing mesh-screen LED displays. They have come a long way in a relatively short time, and when running, the pixel pitch of these things can be good enough to deliver crisp, rich and …
In A Pool Of Display Sharks, China Is The New Apex Predator April 10, 2019 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Chris Riegel, STRATACACHE When I first saw this picture, I knew it reminded me of something, but I just couldn’t put my finger on it. In our industry, the past 10 years of visual display manufacturing have been dominated by the big Korean manufacturers, Samsung and LG. Through a combination of brains, muscle, …
Shiseido Installs 63-Foot Sony Crystal LED Wall In Its New Yokohama Innovation Center April 10, 2019 by Super User Sony has announced what I’d imagine is its biggest deal yet for its much gawked at Crystal LED video wall technology – a monster 63 feet by 17 feet screen built for the Japanese cosmetics group Shiseido, based in Yokohama. It is in the company’s new Shiseido Global Innovation Center. The aggregate of all those teeny …
What Kind Of Digital Signage Player Should I Use? April 9, 2019 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Rob Côté, Broadsign When it comes to choosing a digital signage player, most network operators will go with a PC running Windows or Linux, but it’s not the only choice out there. Android boxes, Chrome OS, and systems on a chip (Soc) have all come into their own as platforms in recent years. …
Orlando University Makes LED Displays Central To New $6M Esports Arena April 8, 2019 by Super User You start to understand how e-sports is a real thing when you read a piece about a U.S. college investing $6 million on a screen-filled competitive gaming arena. AVIXA, the trade association behind Infocomm and ISE, has a case study up on its website about Full Sail University, a media-arts college in the greater Orlando area. …
Luis Has Read The DSE Booth Previews, And Surprise, He’s Cranky April 2, 2019 by Mitch Leathers Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler In the same way that new Alcoholics Anonymous members introduce themselves to the group, I am creating a new group called BPDS (Bad Persons in Digital Signage), and making my introduction: “Hi, my name is Luis, and I am a Bad Person.” You all reply: “Hi Luis!” I am a …
