Samsung Slowing Manufacturing As Global Economy Hiccups And Sputters June 16, 2022 by Super User A shaky global economy and EVERYTHING else going on lately has evidently compelled tech giant Samsung Electronics to temporarily halt new procurement orders and asking multiple suppliers to delay or reduce component and part shipments, reports the news organization Nikkei Asia. Samsung’s slowdown applies to a range of components across multiple product lines, including displays. …
UK’s The LED Studio Marketing 55-Inch LED Cabinets As Direct Replacements For Same-Sized LCDs June 14, 2022 by Super User I was way out of trade show routine last week at InfoComm, and I realized pretty quickly that while coming in early was smart in terms of getting settled, leaving early was stupid. I shoulda budgeted three days around the show floor and stayed for Friday, given all the impromptu chats on the exhibit hall …
“Excessively High Inventory” In Flat Panel Display Value Chain: DSCC June 14, 2022 by Super User The display market research firm Display Supply Chain Consulting, also known as DSCC, has a post up on its site going into granular detail about the current glut of flat panel displays in the U.S. system, and the ramifications of that. The numbers are about consumer TVs, but more broadly reference “excessively high inventory throughout …
Sony Has Grown Software Partner Ecosystem From Two To 34 In Last 18 months June 14, 2022 by Super User There was a time not very long ago, at all, when I would walk into a Sony booth at a trade show and try to sort out what the company was even doing in digital signage, besides selling very nice LCD and microLED displays. That has changed, rather dramatically. The Japanese manufacturer, particularly in the …
Looking Glass Adds A Jumbo 65-Inch Display To 3D Holographic Family June 13, 2022 by Super User Image Credits: Jay Howse / Looking Glass Factory Another thing a little lost in the PR blizzard around InfoComm was news out of Brooklyn last week that those small Looking Glass 3D desktop displays now have a very big brother – a 65-inch version. Looking Glass Factory suggests its new 8K display is 5X larger than any other …
Smart Retail 2.0: Screens Are Key To Post-COVID Retailing June 13, 2022 by HenrikAndersson GUEST POST: HENRIK ANDERSSON, INSTORESCREEN Online shopping and mobile technologies were already compelling a lot of bricks and mortar retailers to start digitally transforming the way their stores looked, worked and were experienced by customers – but the many impacts of the global pandemic put those plans in much faster motion. Services like curbside pickup …
Sharp/NEC Repackage AI Audience Measurement Platform As NaviSense June 13, 2022 by Super User One of the announcements a bit lost by me in the InfoComm PR blizzard last week was Sharp/NEC revisiting and re-packaging its AI/computer vision IP as NaviSense. The product is positioned as “a cost-effective computer vision solution for gathering anonymous customer attributes using off-the-shelf or existing camera sources and processing them through a variety of …
PPDS Finally Harmonizes Pro Display Efforts, Aligning US Business With Global Company June 13, 2022 by Super User When I was at InfoComm last week, I made a point of stopping by the PPDS exhibit to see the company’s latest pots and pans, but also get my head straight on a very involved announcement about the U.S. business. I was told by a contact there that explaining the set-up of PPDS in the …
Public Display Shipments Slipped In Q1; Attributed to China Lockdowns, Ukraine, And Time Of Year – Omdia Research June 13, 2022 by Super User The research firm Omdia says the global market for what it calls public displays (basically commercial/Pro AV-grade displays) declined by 2.1% in the first quarter of 2022 from the previous quarter – owing in part to typical slowdowns in that period but also to domestic lockdowns in China and VladimirPutin’s ambitions. Says Tay Taehoon Kim …
InfoComm Day 1: Busy-ish, Not Much Truly New, But Awesome To Be Back June 8, 2022 by Super User Day One of the exhibit hall for Infocomm 2022 is behind me, and I’m quickly knocking out a quick impressions post before I head out in search of beer and food. OK, I found beer in my hotel room fridge, but the point holds … The show looks pretty busy, and overall looks good and …
