First Transparent LCDs, Now Transparent OLEDs February 4, 2015 by Dave Haynes Display manufacturers always like to have eye candy at trade show booths, and Portland-based Planar Systems is bringing over what looks to be a particularly sweet piece to its booth next week at ISE in Amsterdam – a transparent OLED display. The 55” prototype display, which won’t be a product for at least a year, …
Bigger, Brighter, Almost Square LCD Panel To Debut At ISE February 4, 2015 by Dave Haynes UK-based specialty display firm Crystal Display Systems will be at ISE in Amsterdam next week with a 27.3 inch square-ish LCD panel that packs 1,000 cd (or nits) of brightness. The puppies are backlit by high bright LEDs and have a resolution of 945 by 1080. The units aren’t, as you might tell by the …
Projects: Atlanta Ups Game On Gigantic Stadium LED Boards February 3, 2015 by Dave Haynes The NFL’s Atlanta Falcons have selected Daktronics to build a unique, utterly huge circular LED video display for a new stadium that will open in two years. The LED halo board will be a centerpiece of the new downtown stadium, which will host the Falcons and a new MLS soccer team. The display totals roughly 64,000 square feet, 3X the …
Projects: 800 Sq Ft Curved Display At Fresno Casino January 29, 2015 by Dave Haynes Here’s a 38 foot wide by 21 high Nanolumens LED wall set on a curve at the Tachi Palace casino in the Fresno, California-area. It is touted as the largest curved video wall in North America, visible throughout the entire Casino of the Moon. I like the scale, and can only hope this is demo …
Christie Says 50K+ MicroTiles Now Lit Globally January 26, 2015 by Dave Haynes Christie has pushed out a news release that talks about an expanded warranty for its MicroTiles displays, but contains the more interesting information about the global footprint. The company says it has now shipped more than 50,000 units for roughly 1,000 installations worldwide. That’s, of course, a small number when compared to the commercial LCD market, …
NRF: Is Memomi’s Digital Mirror The Fairest Of Them All January 13, 2015 by Dave Haynes I missed this in the two days I spent wandering the aisles of NRF, which is a shame because I’m intrigued by how it works. It’s billed as the world’s first digital mirror, which is a bit of a reach given eBay and The Big Space both have digital mirror things (admitted doing different stuff) …
NRF: Lexmark’s Shrug-Inducing Digital Signage Play January 13, 2015 by Dave Haynes The big printing hardware firm Lexmark debuted a digital signage product this week at the National Retail Federation show in New York – a digital endcap solution I’d best describe as shrug-inducing. It’s a template program that will generate a jpeg and push it to an LG monitor … and that’s about it. It’s not a …
NRF: Day I Impressions January 12, 2015 by Dave Haynes The National Retail Federation Big Show extended to three days this year, running a shortened five-hour session on Sunday. That meant retailers and brands could get a look on a free day or get three full days in when two was not enough. That also meant all kinds of sales guys were finding creative …
Next Week’s CES Will Switch On Quantum Dots Chatter, So What Is It … January 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes Las Vegas is about to be even more of a zoo than normal – if normal is a word you can attach to that city – as the annual Consumer Electronics Show ramps up. As it is every year, a lot of the stuff on the show floor and in the private areas is very …
Projects: 4K Displays Create Virtual Balconies On Cruise Ship December 31, 2014 by Dave Haynes This is pretty wild. The cruise ship giant Royal Caribbean’s new Quantum of the Seas ship has installed 80-inch portrait-mode 4K displays in its interior staterooms (the ones that could never have windows anyway) to create virtual balconies. The displays get a streamed feed – I’m guessing via fiber – from a set of high-def RED …
