LED Screens Starting To See Adoption By Cinema December 10, 2018 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Global Flat Panel Sales Headed For Big Dip: IHS Markit Research November 22, 2018 by Dave Haynes The flat panel display equipment market is forecasted to be heading into a rough patch, as manufacturers wait for demand to catch up with supply. Market research firm IHS Markit says flat panel display sales are expected to fall from $20.2 billion in 2017 to $14.0 billion in 2020, declining at a compound annual rate of …
TeamViewer Device Management Software Added To BenQ’s Smart Displays November 22, 2018 by Dave Haynes Device management is pretty essential for digital signage networks of any scale – especially those with multiple, dispersed locations. It’s one thing to walk into an on-premise server closet and reboot a PC or router, but can be quite another to make that happen at a location in another state or country. Many SMS platforms …
