LCD TV Shipments From China Increased 10X In Past Year April 30, 2019 by Dave Haynes Chris Riegel, CEO of STRATACACHE, had a guest post on here a few weeks ago about the very rapid rise of China as a large-format LCD display manufacturer, and its implications. Here’s more evidence of that sudden rise: Business information provider IHS Markit has a new report out suggesting shipments of large format LCD TVs from China …
Malware Takes Out Passenger Information Screens At Cleveland’s Airport April 29, 2019 by Dave Haynes The flight information (FIDS) and gate information (GIDS) screens went out of service last week at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport after a ransomware attack on the passenger-facing systems. The screens went dark a week ago, and the airport’s CIO said this morning that it was still working to get them all back online. You are …
Viva Vision In Vegas – World’s Biggest LED Display – Starts Getting Facelift April 26, 2019 by Dave Haynes Anyone who’s been to Las Vegas a few times has probably, at some point, visited Fremont Street – the old school, downtown part of Las Vegas that is even weirder than the Strip. The big feature of that hotel and restaurant stretch is an LED canopy that runs a scheduled multimedia show. That canopy, called …
NEC’s Larson, LG’s Wicka Get Executive Promotions April 26, 2019 by Dave Haynes I tend to tell PR people I don’t do new hires and appointments stories because analytics clearly indicate 16:9 readers don’t care. But I make an exception for some notable ones. Betsy Larson is now Senior VP of Sales for NEC, getting a bump up from Vice President of Channel Sales. In her new gig, …
Samsung Formally Opens New West Coast Briefing Center April 26, 2019 by Dave Haynes Samsung has formally opened its latest Executive Briefing Center (EBC) in Irvine, CA, which is in greater LA, in Orange County. The company already has showroom/conference/event spaces in New Jersey and lower Manhattan, but the 7,500 sq. ft. facility in Irvine is the first on the west coast. I am pretty sure the EBC has been open for …
Movie Campaign Turns Mall Digital Kiosks Into Pikachus April 25, 2019 by Dave Haynes Digital OOH street furniture has long been a preferred medium for movie launches, but this is the first time I think I’ve seen them fully adapted to take on the character of a new film. This a mall kiosk in the UK, running on a JCDecaux screen, for a new movie called Detective Pikachu about …
Man Caught On Camera, In Act, Of Damaging LinkNYC Kiosks; Now Arrested April 25, 2019 by Dave Haynes A 41-year-old man has been arrested and charged in the wake of 42 LinkNYC digital OOH/smart city kiosks being vandalized and damaged around five NYPD precincts. The kiosks have cameras and at least one caught the man throwing a large rock at a unit, in daylight and as people walked by.
Some 30 Of New York’s Smart City Ad Posters Vandalized April 23, 2019 by Dave Haynes The NYC-focused online publication Gothamist has a post up, with multiple photos, of the beating laid on some 30 LinkNYC smart city ad posters in Manhattan this past weekend. A very cranky New Yorker smashed a series of the big digital display kiosks in the West Village and Chelsea, along 6th and 8th Avenues and …
Denver’s 900 LED Light Pole Welcome Sign Switched Off For Fix, Less Than Two Years After Lighting Up April 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
