Six Fine-Pitch LED Columns Welcome Visitors To Louis Vuitton Foundation September 11, 2018 by Super User This is the atrium of the Louis Vuitton Foundation building in Paris – a one-of-a-kind business and cultural center that is also an art museum and the global headquarters of LVMH, the parent company of Louis Vuitton. There are six fine-pitch LED columns welcoming guests and displaying artworks from the museum’s collection, as well as LV branded themes. …
AOPEN Releases Small-Format 15 & 19-Inch All-In-Ones For Win 10, Linux September 11, 2018 by Super User Taiwan-based digital signage hardware firm AOPEN has released a pair of small format all-in-one touch displays aimed at the self-service and retail market – the interesting twist being their support for Windows 10 and Linux. The company previously released all-in-ones built around ChromeOS, and the general trend of late has been all-in-ones using Android (which …
NEC Gets Deeper Into Direct View LED September 7, 2018 by Super User The big LCD display manufacturers continue to get more deeply involved in direct view LED – a move driven at least in part by the migration of video wall business from LCD to genuinely seamless LED surfaces. NEC Display Solutions this week announced the launch of both outdoor and indoor products built off the acquisition …
Transparent LEDs And Interactive Walls At Nissan’s Amazing Ginza Experience Center September 6, 2018 by Super User This is really something – the Nissan Crossing experience center in Tokyo’s famed Ginza shopping district. The center has mostly been around since 1963, but was brought back and fully re-energized a couple of years ago, using a lot of technology. The feature car turntable at the base has LED strips on the circular glass …
Why Big Retailers Like Whole Foods Are Deploying Digital Endcaps And Shelf-Edge Displays September 5, 2018 by Super User Retail is one of the most-chased vertical markets in all of digital signage, but if you ask people who really know this tech, but also really know retail, they’ll tell you they’ve rarely seen it done well, or right. I tend to agree, and sometimes its not the whiz-bang flashy stuff that makes a difference, …
LCD Display Market Booming, Says IHS Markit In New Tracker Research September 4, 2018 by Super User Research firm IHS Markit says the large format LCD display market is booming at the moment, with panel shipments hitting a record monthly high in July 2018 in terms of unit and area shipment. London-based IHS says unit shipments increased by 10 percent in July compared to a year ago, to reach 64.3 million units, …
Got An Opinion On SoC: Let Me Know Here August 29, 2018 by Super User Getting some great insights from CEOs and CTOs on the current state, pros and cons and future of System on Chip displays – all for an updated special report I am doing with my friends at SignageOS, in Prague. The report should be out in the fall, and we’re looking for as much feedback as …
Screens Help Tell Sporting World’s Post-9/11 Response In New Exhibit August 29, 2018 by Super User Digital plays a modest but important role in a new exhibit at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, with Comeback Season: Sports After 9/11 recalling the sporting world’s response after the 9/11 attacks. The exhibit, says a press release, highlights the vital role professional sports played in national mourning as fans rallied …
Mega-Mall’s Digital Directories Reduce Search Times From Minutes To Seconds August 27, 2018 by Super User Metrics on digital signage projects aren’t always that easy to find – sometimes, I think, because the results are shrug-worthy – but here’s an example of interactive directories going into a mega-mall and making a tangible difference in how people find their way around. The Mall of America in Minneapolis put in more than 100 …
Just As 4K Mainstreaming, And 8K On Far Horizon, 16K Displays Showing Up August 24, 2018 by Super User If you are still trying to wrap your head around the rationale for using 8K resolution in digital signage, you’ll be tickled pink to learn display manufacturers are starting to show large format 16K product. The Taiwan-based display firm Innolux will be showing off a 100-inch 16K S-UHD display at the end of the month …
