Tariffs Analysis: Higher Prices, Lower Sales Volumes And Lots Of Uncertainty April 11, 2025 by Dave Haynes Very arguably, about the only certainty right now with the supply chain and costs for the electronics that are fundamental to digital signage deployments is that there is no certainty. While displays, PCs and other gear are coming from all over the place, a lot of the components originate in China – which as I …
MoodyCanvas Launches One-Time-Buy Digital Art Library For Video Walls April 7, 2025 by Dave Haynes One of the wake-up calls that integrators and their end-user customers often get is when they plan out a video wall, and then find out how much good creative can cost. Custom work can easily cost five and six figures. In recent years – and particularly with the rise of data visualization tools and generative …
BenQ Beefs Up Its Push On Digital Signage Displays That Are Validated For Pantone Color April 4, 2025 by Dave Haynes Taiwanese display manufacturer BenQ took the interesting step all the way back to 2019 of starting to market a display that was Pantone Validated – meaning it met a standard familiar to the creative and brand communities for color accuracy across print and digital. More than five years on, the company is continuing to make …
The Uncomfortable Truth About Interactive Digital Wayfinders March 31, 2025 by Jordan Feil Guest Post: Jordan Feil, Digital Signage Consultant After 17 years in the digital signage software industry, I’ve picked up a funny habit: I can’t walk through a mall, airport, or office building without checking out every screen I see. I notice how good the content looks, where they put it, if it works well, and …
Turns Out E Ink Not The Only Company Making, Marketing Large Format Color E-Paper Displays March 28, 2025 by Dave Haynes There were a dozen or so pure-play and specialty display manufacturers at Integrated Systems Europe last month showing their adaptations of base E Ink color displays as their own early-stage or prototype products. One of the questions I was getting over there from industry people when we talked about that was around competition: As in …
Samsung Loses Top Display Exec To Heart Attack March 26, 2025 by Dave Haynes Unfortunate news out of South Korea – the man running the Device Experience division of Samsung had a heart attack on the weekend and passed away Tuesday. As reported by German language content partner invidis, Samsung Co-CEO Han Jong-hee died suddenly at the age of 63. Han Jong-hee reportedly worked for Samsung since 1988, and …
With NFT Digital Art Buzz Now Just A Faint Hum, LG Shutting Down Its Display-Focused Art Lab March 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes Cast your mind all the way back to 2022, and try to recall whether you thought the money and company resources being put in digital art packaged up as crypto-sold NFTs hit you as super-cool and the future, or perhaps more baffling than anything, or clearly stupid. I was very firmly in the “I don’t …
Amscreen Joins Growing List Of Specialty Display Firms Testing Large-Format Color E-Paper As High-Bright LCD Alternative March 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes It is likely that at some point all of the specialty display manufacturers who have long focused on LCD, and more recently dabbled in direct view LED, will add color e-paper displays to their product range – particularly in parts of the world that pay attention to pesky little issues like climate change, and energy …
Video: See How Teeny Even MiniLEDs Are For TVs And Pro Displays In This Teardown Video March 20, 2025 by Dave Haynes There are likely many, many people who pay attention to evolving technology on the display side of digital signage who don’t fully have their heads around just how teeny LED light emitters are these days – and this is well before microLEDs get out of R&D and are mainstreamed. So this teardown video of a …
CRI, Uniguest And LG Team Up On 900-Screen Digital Refresh Of Vancouver Canucks’ Home Arena March 20, 2025 by Dave Haynes The sports and entertainment venue that’s home to the National Hockey League’s Vancouver Canucks, in Guess Where, has completed a big digital transformation that is nicely indicative of why these kinds of live events venues are now a big target vertical for a lot of digital signage technology providers. The technology refresh at Rogers Arena …
