E Ink Debuts Advanced Color ePaper, Aimed At Digital Signage Market May 25, 2016 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes “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 …
With Indoor LED Signage, You Should Say You Want A Resolution April 26, 2016 by Dave Haynes It’s just been in the last two or three weeks that conversations I’ve had about those super fine pixel pitch LED displays coming on the market started to include references to their resolutions. Until then, the chatter had always focused on the steadily shrinking gaps between the LED lights – what’s called the pixel pitch. I’d …
Demystifying OLED Displays For Digital Signage April 25, 2016 by Curtis Tilly Often hailed as “the future” of digital displays and screens, OLED technology merges the promise of significantly enhanced picture quality with the potential for innovative new consumer display presentations. But the technology is still a long way from challenging the market dominance of existing LCD options. That may change, however, if the price of OLED displays continues to fall — and te tech …
