Projects: UK Theatre Lights Up Big Stretched Displays At Entryway June 1, 2017 by Super User Here’s an example of how those stretched 86-inch LG LCD panels are being used away from trade show booths and in the real world – a pair of them gracing the entryway to a refurbished theatre in Dorset, England. The screens are running custom promotional content for the theatre, including advertising for productions, vendors and show …
Startup Shows E-paper That’s Color And Video-Capable May 29, 2017 by Super User Display nerds at last week’s annual Society for Information Display’s annual DisplayWeek, this year in LA, saw among other things e-paper technology that was both color AND video capable. Tech developed by Silicon Valley start-up CLEARink, based on R&D that came out of the University of British Columbia, was among the Best In Show winners …
Shanghai Digital Signage Show This Fall Expecting 70K-Plus Attendees May 26, 2017 by Super User What looks to be an all-encompassing digital signage show for the China market has been announced for Shanghai Sept. 20-22 – with events focused on digital signage, LED, OLED and signs all ganged together at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. OLED CHINA 2017, DIGITAL SIGNAGE 2017, SIGN CHINA 2017 and LED CHINA 2017 are expected to …
Digital Signage Ecosystem Seeing Double-Digit Growth: IHS Markit May 24, 2017 by Super User The latest Digital Signage & Professional Displays Market Analysis from IHS Markit – which the company makes available to Digital Signage Federation members – has a bunch of interesting nuggets of information. Among them: “All avenues of the digital signage ecosystem finished 2016 with double-digit increases, with revenues from media and software for networked digital signage …
Projects: This Sliding, Morphing LED-LCD Wall Takes Closer Looks At Human Brain May 23, 2017 by Super User This is very impressive – a 20-foot tall direct view LED wall sync’d with seven 72-inch LCD monitors that crawl up and down the wall on side-by-side tracks, showing information about the human brain and the scientists pushing the boundaries of neuroscience research. The monitors, when down at eye-level, are interactive, and when sliding up …
How About A Cord-Free Digital Sign That Will Run A Year Between Charges? May 16, 2017 by Super User Slovenia’s Visionect has started marketing a 13-inch E Ink display that will run for as long as a year before needing its battery recharged. Called the Onethree – presumably based on the 13-inch size – the unit is touted as a Place and Play device that can go where it needs to go, and …
CIVIQ’s Gleeson On Progress Of LinkNYC Smart City Efforts May 10, 2017 by Super User Here is the first of a two-part Q&A session with digital signage veteran Brad Gleeson, now the Chief Commercial Officer at CIVIQ, on that company’s smart cities efforts in New York and beyond. The completed Q&A was provided to 16:9 by a Samsung agency, but they’re the sorts of questions I’d ask. I thought about it, and …
Projects: Curved Video Wall Brings Cathedral’s Famed Frescoes Down To Eye-Level In Italy May 5, 2017 by Super User The museum curator language of this case study is damn near impenetrable, but if you hang in there, you learn that a big, curved video wall is being used in a cathedral in Piacenza, Italy to celebrate the work of a baroque artist known as Guercino. The video wall, which is running on SpinetiX players and …
Projects: Paris Hotel’s Interactive Wall Inspired By The City April 28, 2017 by Super User This looks very nice – an experiential video wall in a luxury boutique hotel in Paris that’s ambient, reactive and highly functional when needed. The Sofitel Paris Baltimore Tour Eiffel worked with Montreal tech agency Float4 on a multi-touch digital welcome wall on the street level designed to help tourist guests connect with the city. …
Projects: JFK’s T4 Now Greets Arrivals With Big, Sweeping LED Display April 27, 2017 by Super User This is a new two-sided 30-foot by 10-foot direct view LED display at the arrivals hall at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport Terminal 4, which is mostly known as a Delta terminal. It’s a curved NanoLumens Nixel LED that displays ads, interspersed with flight information, time, news and weather. T4 has a throughput of about6 million …
