LA Bus Shelter Expansion Clears Approvals Hurdle; Integrated DOOH Screens, Surprise!, Have Opponents September 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes A proposal to add some 3,450 new tech-laden transit shelters to LA’s streets has cleared a big hurdle for its backers, but still needs to get the final OK from the full Los Angeles City Council. LA’s public works board has approved a plan from a partnership called Tranzito-Vector to add the shelters to the …
Wireless Power For Displays Is Here … Kinda Sorta September 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes One of the reasons ops and deployment people who are active in digital signage and AV companies tend to insist on doing site visits and surveys before starting on projects is that they want to see what they’re up against with the location, and check on things like the availability of power. Often, there’s no …
Metal Fatigue On Under-Spec’d Suspension Wire Caused That LED Collapse At HK Concert: Task Force August 31, 2022 by Dave Haynes Metal fatigue on a suspension wire that was probably under-spec’d led to the collapse of an LED screen hanging over the performing stage at a boy band concert in Hong Kong in late July, according to a task force now looking into what happened and why. The rated strength of the wire that snapped at …
UK’s The Led Studio Launches Fine-Pitch LED Unit For Outdoor Ad Displays; Designed To Supplant LCDs August 31, 2022 by Dave Haynes I tend to be very reticent to go with claims that something is a world-first, because there’s almost always something else that actually was first, but a new LED display set-up from The LED Studio is definitely among the first of its kind, and an indication of what’s going to come (probably) in a big …
Here’s How And Why Energy Savings Measures With DOOH Screens Can Be A Handle-With-Care Situation August 30, 2022 by Dave HaynesFollowing on to that situation in Europe in which some countries are encouraging or mandating energy usage restrictions, our German language content partners at Invidis have an interesting post up looking at the workable measures for shutting off screens for part of the day. If you are unfamiliar with what’s up here, Russia’s invasion of …
MRI Sues Samsung, Files International Trade Complaint Citing Infringement Of Outdoor Display Patents August 26, 2022 by Dave Haynes Atlanta-based custom display manufacturer Manufacturing Resources International (MRI) is going after Samsung in court, and both Samsung and some key business partners via the US International Trade Commission, citing patent infringements with respect to high-brightness outdoor and window displays. I covered courts for maybe a couple of days, a million years ago, when I was …
GSTV, Ara Labs Partner On Deploying, Marketing Screens Adjacent To EV Charging Units August 26, 2022 by Dave Haynes Given the eye-watering price of electric vehicles, we can assume it will be quite some time before conventional gas stations are mothballed. But it nonetheless makes sense for a company whose business is built on the wide presence of fuel dispensers to think ahead and branch into EV charging stations. Destination Media, the place-based media …
More Detail On Germany’s Energy Savings-Focused Digital Signage And DOOH Restrictions August 25, 2022 by Florian Rotberg Partner Post: Florian Rotberg, Invidis This post originally appeared on the site of Sixteen:Nine’s German language content partner, Invidis. On Wednesday, the federal government approved two energy-saving regulations which, among other things, also restrict the operation of illuminated and self-illuminating advertising systems (DooH, digital signage in shop windows). An exception was considered for outdoor advertising. …
Home Of NFL’s Colts Gets LED Display Upgrade; Big Bump In Replay Screen Clarity August 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes Daktronics has a new competitor chasing the business for super-large LED displays in pro sports venues, with SNA Displays winning a deal to kit out with mega-screens the upgraded home of the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts. SNA, the US-operated wing of Chinese manufacturer Sansi, has supplied a pair of 53 feet high by 93 feet wide …
Proto’s Mini Hologram-ish Display Gets Its First Public Tryout In AT&T Pop-Up Lounge August 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes When I saw the reduced size version of Proto’s hologram-ish transparent LCD display at InfoComm back in June, I was struggling to come up with a use-case for the units – much more so than for the life-sized, shower stall-like seven foot tall units. It’s one thing to see a person captured on a cleverly-lit …
