JCDecaux Now Has Giant 17-foot Tall LED Ad Totems In Downtown San Francisco March 19, 2025 by Dave Haynes The qualifier I’ve heard numerous times about using LED for outdoor advertising “street furniture” is that the resolution can’t match what a full HD or 4K high-bright LCD can offer, and that may well be the case unless a media company invests in still super-expensive ultra-fine pitch LED. But what LED offers – setting pitch …
An LED Display Light Enough To “Dance In The Air” Like A Flag March 19, 2025 by Dave Haynes We’ve seen LED displays cover buildings and fill windows, and even be used as fashion garments, but I’m not sure I’ve come across the suggestion that they could be used for waving flags. The Shenzhen LED manufacturer Coxeled is marketing something it calls the LED Flying Screen – a display it says is as flexible …
Bluefin Further Broadens Platform Support For Its All-In-One Flat Panels With SpinetiX Partnership March 18, 2025 by Dave Haynes Atlanta specialty display firm Bluefin continues to broaden its range of supported platforms, with news its retail-centric all-in-one displays now support via Intel hardware the media playout software and custom operating system of Switzerland’s SpinetiX. Bluefin displays with SpinetiX enabled, says a web announcement, combine powerful display technology with a robust, user-friendly signage platform. Featuring …
Here’s A 31-inch Color E-Paper Display Running Full Motion Video March 18, 2025 by Dave Haynes One of the well-established and oft-stated limitations of e-paper displays is how they only really support static images and cannot do motion graphics and video that look anything like what’s possible with more conventional display tech, most notably LCDs. But here’s a trade show demo of a Shenzhen embedded computing company running smooth-looking video on …
Health Tech Company Adopts Hollywood Sci-Fi Look For Display-Filled Welcome Center March 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes The very ambitious new headquarters of the Draper, Utah health tech firm LifeWave has a welcome center reminiscent of the set of a sci-fi movie and has what is described as the largest deployment to date of the super-skinny, architecture-focused Ventana LED display tiles. It also uses Sony OLEDs and LG Transparent OLEDs, as well …
LED Mainstreamed: A Squircle Of LED Displays Creates Animated Halo For Coastal Spain Shoe Store March 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes I don’t think it’s necessary to reinforce anymore that LED displays are now a mainstream pro AV option, as it is pretty much everywhere. But it is endlessly interesting to see how big ideas for this display tech get adopted for much less ambitious use-cases – like a halo display in a shopping mall shoe …
Compact Pro AV Computing: Velasea Introduces Slim Server with Massive Video Output March 13, 2025 by Dave Haynes Specialty PC manufacturer Velasea has come out with a dual-GPU 1U servers particularly well-suited for big video walls – with the skinny 1U Plus unit capable of support up to 8 4K video out signals. The products are geared to use cases like indoor or outdoor video walls for experience or advertising, command and control …
DISPLAX Grows Its Support For PCAP Touchscreens All The Way To 135-inch Displays March 13, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Portuguese tech firm DISPLAX has focused on PCAP touchscreens for large format displays since 2011, but they’ve really now run with the idea of large format, with support for flat responsive touch panels as large as 135 inches diagonal. PCAP, if you don’t have much reason to know your way around touch technology, is …
Samsung’s Latest VXT Release Tunes New Functionality To Hospitality Sector March 13, 2025 by Dave Haynes Companies as big as Samsung want and need scale for whatever they make and market, so it is not surprising that the latest iteration of the company’s cloud-based CMS – Visual eXperience Transformation (or, better, VXT) – appears to be have functionality tuned to so-called hospitality TVs and aimed at hoteliers and healthcare providers. With …
Proto’s Virtual Presence Healthcare Solutions Now HIPAA-Compliant March 12, 2025 by Dave Haynes Marketing of display products that claim some type of hologram-ish visual effect has focused heavily on the whiz-bangery of the experience, and it is easy to forget that other technical aspects need to come into play for specific use-cases – like compliance with security and privacy standards in sensitive industries like health care. Among the …
