Projects: Hyundai’s Kuwait Flagship Drives Big Video Walls May 30, 2016 by Super User This is the showroom at Hyundai’s flagship store in Kuwait, using a set of thin-bezel Sharp displays. There are two of these video walls in the showroom. The project was put together by Dubai-based 2point0 Concepts and a sister company, Kuwait-based DeLite Engineering. The screens are powered by 2point0’s own CMS, iSignage.
E Ink Debuts 32-Inch Display That Can Wrap Around Bus Stop Post May 25, 2016 by Super User Turns out there are two interesting product releases coming out of E Ink this week at the display nerd show SID in San Francisco. I wrote a few hours ago about a new rich color e-paper display technology, but the company has also showed off a 32-inch flexible, lightweight display aimed at public transport and …
E Ink Debuts Advanced Color ePaper, Aimed At Digital Signage Market May 25, 2016 by Super User E Ink has announced what would seem to be a big breakthrough in its drive to bring full color to electronic paper, and the first target application for what’s called Advanced Color ePaper (or ACeP) is digital signage. The company is touting how, for the first time ever, an electrophoretic display (EPD) can produce full …
Fine Pixel Pitch LED Sales Grew 366% In 2015: IHS Research May 18, 2016 by Super User The arrival on the market of fine pixel pitch LED displays has sparked a big jump in shipments globally, but the competitive landscape is so crowded that total revenues have only jumped slightly, according to a new marketplace report by the research firm IHS. Total unit shipments for all pixel-pitch categories in the direct-view LED video …
Projects: UK Burger Chain’s Switch To Digital Menus Sees 50% Sales Boost May 10, 2016 by Super User It’s one location, so keep that top of mind, but word that cutting over menu boards at a UK burger stand from static to digital menu boards jumped sales by 50% is nonetheless interesting. The small hand-crafted burger chain, Prime Burger, cut over its three locations to digital, working with Eclipse Digital Media and using Samsung’s …
Delivering On The Promise Of Electronic Paper May 9, 2016 by Jennifer Davis Guest Post: Luka Birsa, Visionect Electronic paper is now making it possible to put digital signage in places and situations that were long thought too difficult and costly. The technology that first made its mark in the e-book sector is now being used outside as digital signs on roadways and at transit shops – conquering …
Sixteen:Nine Podcast: Bill Dunn of LG MRI May 6, 2016 by Super User Bill Dunn is the founder and CEO of LG MRI, a suburban Atlanta company focused on producing ultra-reliable, long-lasting outdoor LCD displays. You can see LG MRI product on urban sidewalks, attached to bus shelters and placed around busy outdoor areas like shopping centers and campuses. Dunn, an engineer to the core, talks in this …
The LCD Bezel Battles Rage On, But Why? May 3, 2016 by Super User Digital signage display manufacturers have been in a pitched battle for years over whose product has the skinniest bezels, ands therefore the least discernible seams in video walls. First, we had narrow bezel. Then super narrow. And ultra narrow bezel. One manufacturer even, apparently with a straight face, now has super ultra narrow bezels. Which logically means …
Chart: LCD’s Future Is Big, As In Big Screens, Says IHS May 2, 2016 by Super User The latest IHS Digital Signage & Professional Displays Market Analysis – this one tied to Q1 2016 – says the slowdown in the economies of China, Latin America, and Eastern Europe actually shrunk the digital signage and professional display market by 3%, year on year, in 2015. But the market is coming around and is expected …
LG MRI Building Outdoor Displays To Survive And Thrive May 2, 2016 by Super User “Before we fabricate anything,” says Bill Dunn, as we’re walking into LG MRI’s 120,000 manufacturing plant, “we know that display is going to thrive, not just survive.” His company, based in the sprawling, heavily-wooded suburbs north of Atlanta, makes large-format outdoor displays for the out of home advertising business and, more recently, emerging markets like fast food …
