German OOH Media Giant Ströer Expanding Digital Footprint With 6MM Daktronics LED Boards January 17, 2022 by Super User Daktronics has announced a renewed partnership to supply a pie of large-format outdoor LED displays to the German OOH media firm Ströer, which also already has more than 250 Dak LEDs in its billboard inventory around Germany. The new screens will measure 9 square meters or 10 square meters, all 6mm pitch units – some …
NYC Subways Start Using Square And Ribbon LCD “Live Cards” In Rail Cars January 14, 2022 by Super User Hat Tip to Paul Fleuranges, a board exec of the Digital Signage Federation (and a very smart, experienced guy looking for the right new gig), for passing along this information and video of new digital signage screens running on the NYC subway system. He notes via Linkedin: Took my first subway ride of the new …
Astronaut Floats Towards Viewers On This Chinese Shopping Mall’s Semi-Transparent Video Wall January 14, 2022 by Super User This is an effective use of a forced perspective illusion done on a transparent LED display that wraps the exterior of a bank of elevators in the atrium of a mall in a city west of Shanghai. It helps that whoever shot this video plays along with the illusion of an astronaut leaving a vessel …
Israel’s Most Popular Playhouse Using Street-Level Window Screens To Drive Awareness, Ticket Sales January 13, 2022 by Super User Putting screens in full-length windows that face the street can present a bunch of technical challenges – the biggest ones handling glare and heat build-up from the sun. But there’s also a big challenge in making the screen infrastructure tidy and like it all belongs there. This is the ground-level lobby of the new home …
Newspaper Goes After JCDecaux Again For Its Manchester Sidewalk DOOH Network January 12, 2022 by Super User Whoever runs operations for the digital OOH media interests of JCDecaux in Manchester, England is perhaps thinking regularly that she or he needs a drink, possibly by 10 AM, given the adverse attention its new sidewalk digital ad totems have been getting from the city’s famed newspaper. The Guardian wrote last fall about the grey …
Sharp NEC Display Announces Exec Re-Org In Wake Of 2020 Joint Venture January 10, 2022 by Super User Now that Sharp and NEC Display have been business-married for several months, the blended companies have pushed out news and guidance on how the two Japanese firms will operate going forward in the North American market, at least in the context of pro AV. You may recall that Sharp and NEC did a joint venture …
QD OLED Is The Latest Display Acronym You’ll Be Reading About … Here’s Why You Should Care … January 6, 2022 by Super User If you were already mightily confused by all the different terms being used to describe display technology, you’ll be giddy to learn there’s another one now – QD-OLED. The good news with this one, at least, is the term directly ties to what it is. Unlike LED TVs that are actually LCDs, and QLEDs that …
Big London Roadside Display Softens Visual Impact With Living Green Wall On Rear January 4, 2022 by Super User I doubt this sort of thing would fully remove the concerns and objections of organizations and individuals who don’t like the proliferation in cities of outdoor digital displays, but an initiative from Digital OOH giant JCDecaux is an interesting compromise. It is a 10 meter high LED board in poster format at a road junction …
UV-C Light Touted As Quick Disinfecter For Touchscreens, Payment Terminals, But Is It A Feasible Alternative To Hand Gel? January 4, 2022 by Super User I’ve not yet seen much at all in the way of digital signage and commercial AV-related product announcements coming out of the (in normal times) giant CES electronics trade show in Las Vegas, but was a little curious about a Florida company called LumixUV that has what it calls “groundbreaking robotic disinfection technology” that would …
LG’s Latest OLEDs Up Brightness Levels By As Much As 30% December 29, 2021 by Super User LG Display continues to chip away at one of the primary objections about the display capabilities of OLED versus LCD: brightness. Ahead of CES in Las Vegas next week, the Korean electronics giant is touting new OLED TV technology it says ups brightness by as much as 30%. So why, you may ask, does that …
