Delta’s Airy, LED-Filled New Terminal C At NYC’s LaGuardia Finally Opens Saturday June 2, 2022 by Dave Haynes The big investment in money and years to make New York’s LaGuardia Airport into a facility appropriate for one of the world’s great cities is reaching a conclusion after six years of construction, with word this week that the $4 billion Terminal C will open for travellers on Saturday. The new consolidated Delta terminal – …
Commercial Audio Firm AtlasIED Expands Into Digital Signage For Airport Mass Communications June 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes A commercial audio company that says it has 85% percent market penetration in U.S. airports has expanded into digital signage messaging, using custom display totems that can interrupt scheduled messaging with emergency alerts and guidance. Called LookHear, the display and platform tap into Atlas IED’s GLOBALCOM enterprise-wide communications system. The new set-up is a partnership …
Bluefin Adds Windows 10 All-In-One Screens Via New Seneca Partnership June 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes The all-in-one display company Bluefin has added Windows 10 IoT to its options for its smaller-format, retail-centric range of merchandising and marketing displays, through a new partnership with the custom PC firm Seneca. The units range in size from 13-32 inches, use an Intel Celeron processor and have touchscreen overlays. Bluefin got into digital signage …
Samsung Display Exiting Direct LCD Manufacturing Early As TV Prices Fall May 31, 2022 by Dave Haynes There’s a decent chance Samsung-branded LCD flat panels used in digital signage jobs were already being manufactured by other companies, but that will definitely be the case going forward, as Samsung Display exits the LCD display manufacturing business and turns fully to third-party suppliers for that product line. The Korea Times reports Samsung Display will …
So The Section In The Manual About Micro-Adjustments … Maybe Read It? May 31, 2022 by Dave Haynes Most of the failed digital signage efforts I come across, or have sent my way, involve computing hardware or programming software that goes bad. But here’s a case of a video wall project in which the player, software and creative are all fine, but the installation or service job was a disaster. Christopher Gillespie of …
Dressing Room Interactive Screens Key Aspect of First Amazon Style Bricks & Mortar Store May 30, 2022 by Dave Haynes Online shopping giant Amazon has now opened its first physical fashion retail store, and a key feature is personalized interactive screens in fitting rooms, tied in with a store-centric app. The Amazon Style store opened its doors May 25th at a big LA-area shopping mall called The Americana at Brand. While Amazon also operates cashier-less …
Industry Vet Zoll Hopes To Demystify Jargon-Filled LED Display Biz In InfoComm Talk May 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes If you are just starting to look into direct view LED as a display option, and running into a snowmageddon-level blizzard of unfamiliar terms and acronyms, a talk industry veteran Larry Zoll is doing at InfoComm in a couple of weeks might save you some precious brain cells. Zoll’s June 8th talk is called: Demystifying …
Taiwan’s PanelSemi Marketing Super-Light, Super-Skinny Flexible Active Matrix Display Made To Size Using 9-Inch Tiles May 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes I am not 100% sure what this is, but 99% sure it’s interesting – a very large, very light and super-skinny display that uses active matrix LCD technology instead of OLED. The Taiwanese firm PanelSemi is marketing an active matrix display using mini LED, that is flexible enough to be rolled up and light enough …
London’s New Elizabeth Line Adds 300+ New Screens To City’s Rail System May 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes Services started running this morning on the Elizabeth Line, a new railway service running through central London. The new line, years in development, includes nine brand new stations added to the London Underground map. As you might expect, starting from scratch enabled Transport For London to design in a lot of digital to inform, guide …
LaGuardia Does A Different Take On Flight Status Displays For Travelers May 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes Paul Fleuranges sent me a quick note and photos from the mercifully-renovated Terminal B of New York’s LaGuardia Airport – his first time in that or any airport since COVID hit. The refresh of an airport that would be generously described as a hell-pit included a big re-think and upgrade of the digital displays at …
