Impressions From LED Land November 10, 2017 by Dave Haynes A ferry will take me this morning from Shenzhen, China to Hong Kong, which I am assuming is a far nicer way to get between the two cities than the subway rides I took to get here. Yeah, you can take the subway to China. It’s cheap and kinda sorta fast, but hard work if …
Report From LED Land November 7, 2017 by Dave Haynes Doing the drinking from a fire-hose thing in my LED learning trip to Taiwan and Asia. This a stack of reels of teeny LED packages – microscopic diodes mounted and sealed in cubes with lenses. The reels, with something like 3,000 diodes on them – are loaded into a robotic machine the size of a …
Watch A Video Of The Digitally-Loaded Sephora Flagship In Barcelona November 3, 2017 by Dave Haynes Here’s a full video of the Sephora flagship that opened this summer in Barcelona. The entryway leading in to the escalator (or tube slide, if you feel like it) is all digital, and you can see some serious investment in creative. Very impressive.
MediaSignage Debuts $245 All-in Android Tablet For Interactive Digital Signage November 3, 2017 by Dave Haynes Lots of digital signage CMS companies have software that will run on a consumer or commercial tablet, or smaller, special-purpose displays, but LA-based software shop MediaSignage may be the first to market its own home-brewed tablet for interactive applications. The company has started shipping MediaTouch, a 10-inch Android-based tablet that costs just $245 USD. The …
Price Gap Between OLED And LCD Displays Closing November 3, 2017 by Dave Haynes Via Display Daily OLED displays have tended to generate a couple of uniform reactions from onlookers:1) they look amazing and 2) they’re amazingly expensive. The latter is changing, according to research firm IHS Markit, which says the manufacturing cost gap between OLED displays and LCD displays is closing. IHS says its OLED Display Cost Model analysis estimates …
Intersection Signs Downtown Philly For 100 Smart City Ad Screens November 2, 2017 by Dave Haynes The Google-backed media firm Intersection has reached an agreement to install 100 of its smart city ad posters on the streets of downtown Philadelphia, with the network dubbed LinkPHL. The large street-level kiosks will bring free gigabit public Wi-Fi, phone calls, device charging, wayfinding, local content and information, and be bankrolled by large street furniture-style …
Sharp On Rebound, Tracking To First Annual Profit In Four Years October 31, 2017 by Dave Haynes Sharp seems to be on the rebound after a seriously rough economic patch for the Japanese electronics giant. Less than three years ago there were big concerns Sharp was going under, having registered a nearly $2 billion loss. Now Reuters is reporting Sharp Corp has reported its fourth consecutive quarter of net profit, and sales are …
Sony To Debut Interactive Digital Signage Platform At CES: Report October 30, 2017 by Dave Haynes Sony is reportedly planning to introduce an interactive digital signage platform at CES in Las Vegas in January that mashes up gesture sensors, augmented reality, audience analytics and signage. The Sony MITENE system has been around in Japan for several years, but a new 4K version will be shown and marketed in North America. Let’s …
A Big, Premium Video Wall … In A Parking Garage October 26, 2017 by Dave Haynes Here’s a sure sign that video wall LCD costs and digital out of home media demand and value have converged, at least in Los Angeles. This is a twin video wall in a parking garage at The Grove, a higher-end shopping mall and entertainment complex in LA, roughly in the Hollywood area. Tiffany Daugherty of …
Barco Bucks Industry Shift To LED Video Walls, Debuts No-Bezel LCD Video Wall System October 24, 2017 by Dave Haynes In an interesting twist, at a time when many LCD display manufacturers are investing big-time on fine pitch LED product to offset the expected decline in video wall sales, a company known far more for LED and projectors is launching a flashy new LCD wall product. Belgium-based Barco is launching Barco UniSee – a full …
