STRATACACHE Acquires Chinese Specialty DisplayCo; Rebrands As Scala China December 12, 2018 by Super User There is now a Scala China, in the wake of parent company STRATACACHE acquiring a tablet and computing device manufacturing company based in Ningbo, China. The company, formerly known as POPSCREENS, is now Scala China – positioned as a solution for interactive retail displays. The deal gets CEO Chris Riegel a 250,000 square foot manufacturing …
Leyard Partners With LED Rival Lighthouse To Chase Sports Venue Signage Business December 10, 2018 by Super User In what seems like a slightly-odd partnership, Leyard (and Planar, which it acquired) have forged a partnership with a competitor to build up its LED display capabilities in the sports and entertainment market. The “strategic partnership” is with Lighthouse Technologies Ltd., which has been around the LED display market for more than 20 years, and has …
LED Screens Starting To See Adoption By Cinema December 10, 2018 by Super User It would not have been unreasonable to look at Samsung’s push into digital cinema – marketing fine pitch, direct view LEDs as an alternative to screens and projectors – as an interesting concept, but not one that would see much adoption because of cost. I saw a proof of concept at a special booth at …
London Underground Escalators Lined With LCD Ribbon Walls December 7, 2018 by Super User The London Underground many years ago took on what I think were the first digital escalator panels – a cascading series of synchronized displays in the escalator wells of the subway system. The media firm Exterion Media is in the process of upgrading some of the most well-known and busiest stations on the Underground with …
External Media Players are Better Than Smart Displays, Right? Not So Fast December 4, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Curtis Campbell, Hughes Virtually everywhere we look, we see divisions. Be it politics, how to raise children, dogs versus cats, there never seems to be a winner-take-all argument. And digital signage technology is no different. For a few years now, signage buyers have been presented with an alternative to external digital signage players – namely SoC …
LED Feature Walls Give Renovated Space Center Shop Lift-Off December 3, 2018 by Super User This is what’s called the World’s Largest Space Shop, a renovated 15,372 sq. ft. retail space at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Florida’s east coast. The shop re-opened in June this year, upgraded among many things by big indoor and outdoor LED feature walls and interactive screens, all via RMG Networks. The solution uses …
The Disgusting Side Of Customer Engagement Technology: Bacteria-Riddled Touchscreens November 29, 2018 by Super User When interactive touchscreens first came on the market, and everyone started blabbering away about engagement technology and customer engagement, there were more than a few germaphobes who pointed out that, ummm, public touchscreens ran the risk of having disgusting surfaces. Think of anything that gets touched and touched and touched all day long, by people …
Sydney’s New Train Ops Center Boasts Largest Control Room LED Wall On Planet November 28, 2018 by Super User A lot of the larger LED companies – particularly ones from China – have been going after the control room market with its finest pitch LED product, the thinking being large public and private companies might have deeper pockets than retail and other vertical industries. But it looks like a U.S.-based manufacturer has bagged the …
That Insane ETISALAT Booth At GITEX Also Had Shape-Shifting LED Walls November 27, 2018 by Super User One of the buzziest impressions from the recent GITEX trade show in Dubai – a very large, by the looks of it moderately crazy variation on CES – was the way, way, way over-the-top ETISALAT booth – with the telecoms company having LED everywhere, and a flying car (only kinda sorta – it appeared to …
New Spanish Shopping Mall Greets, Entertains With Giant, Curved LED Facade November 26, 2018 by Super User This is a new shopping mall – Torrecardenas – in Almeria,Spain, on the south coast, about 200 km east of Malaga (if that means anything to you). The mall developers went very big on direct view LED on a curved wall by the main entry point. What I like, based on the videos below, is …
