OUTFRONT Deploys 15 Two-Screen Ad Totems In Partnership With Louisville December 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes Digital street furniture gets put on city streets by media companies for the sole purpose, understandably, of hopefully recovering their high capital costs and then making money from ads running on the high-bright display totems. An announcement of a new network on the downtown sidewalks of Louisville, KY reflect how media companies these days have …
Oldie But (Very) Goodie: LCD-Based Video Wall Array At Birmingham, AL Airport December 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes Just about everything covered here involves new or updated technology and new deployments, but here is something that’s been in place for more than a decade but remains noteworthy. It is a mosaic LCD video array at Birmingham Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama, described as using depictions of movement, migration and marching from different eras …
Munich-Based Insurer Uses Big LCDs Instead Of Fine-Pitch LED To Bling Up Its Lobby November 29, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting example of a corporate client, space designer and integrator collectively opting for very large LCD over fine pitch LED to create a big digital presence in a company’s main reception area. It is the lobby of the Munich headquarters of the insurance firm WWK Versicherung, and uses four 98-inch Sony Bravia 4K …
Transparent LCD Adds Virtual Information Kiosk At Riyadh’s Airport November 28, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s one of those transparent LCD virtual presence set-ups being used at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s big airport, promoting Virgin Connect eSims and answering questions, using AI. It hits me as very expensive overkill, given what it does, but it does offer bling and buzz in a part of the world that especially likes its bling …
Video: Here’s A Volumetric Display That’s Much Closer To The Pop Culture Idea Of Holograms November 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes I natter away here when specialty display companies call their transparent LD or OLED screens, Pepper’s Ghost projections or spinning LED light thingies holograms, explaining that they’re not, because while the outputs may appear to float in a space, those visuals are two-dimensional and don’t have depth or dimension. Here, though, is a genuine 3D …
CAPEX Spending By Display Manufacturers Surpasses $7B This Year; On Both LCD And OLED November 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes One indicator of the relative health of the display tech sector would be how much manufacturers are spending on equipment, and by that measure, the sector looks quite robust. But a 47% jump in spending in 2024 comes immediately on the heels of big dips in investment the previous year. The research and consulting firm …
LG Re-Org Puts Commercial Displays In Same Business Tent As Company’s Media And Entertainment Business November 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes LG Electronics has announced a pile of organizational changes and appointments it says its built around the Korean company’s mid- to long-term strategy, restructuring the business into four companies and putting commercial displays under the umbrella of Media Entertainment Solutions. The business units are Home Appliance Solution (HS) Company, the Media Entertainment Solution (MS) Company, …
Local Dimming Tech Reduces Praevar’s New High-Bright Display Power Demands By 35% November 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes Toronto-based specialty display company Praevar has launched a new high-brightness outdoor LCD display that uses dynamic local dimming backlight technology and software to reduce its energy consumption by roughly 35% over high-brights of the same size and spec on the market. Praevar says its Podium 75-inch units can push 4,000 nits of brightness and run …
Bluefin Expands Well Beyond Its Countertop Screen Roots; Now Markets Displays As Large As 86 Inches November 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes The commodity side of selling commercial flat panels has to be tough these days given the rise of lower-cost Chinese products and an industry shifting to LED, but there is evidently still room and opportunity in the market for specialty displays in smaller sizes and suppliers that can cover just about any display size need …
Parking Lot Management Platform Adds Real-Time Displays To Solution Stack November 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of digital signage that’s put in place for no other reason than improving a process for the user and operator – networked displays in parking garage that are end-points in a cloud-based parking management system. I call it boring signage and that is a term of endearment, just like boring signage at …
