Rise Display At Center Of SPAC’s Plans To Market LED Ticker Solutions In Growing Sports Betting Market April 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes Long-time LED ticker display provider Rise Display has a letter of intent to go into an “arm’s length business combination transaction” that would take it public and brand products as the Skybox Sports Network, selling hardware and software sold into gaming and sports betting markets in the U.S.A. and Canada. A special purpose acquisition company …
Sharp NEC Combine Commercial Display Product Line IN EU April 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes The entire commercial display range of Sharp and NEC is now being sold under one roof in Europe, as the merged companies continue to blend operations, sales and marketing. The companies did a joint venture almost two years ago that saw Sharp acquire 66% of shares for NEC Display Solutions Ltd. Since then, the blended …
MLB’s Mets Partner With Samsung To Upgrade Displays, IPTV At Home Park April 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes On the heels of word that the Toronto Blue Jays MLB team has seen its ballpark upgraded with a lot of LED comes news that another team – the New York Mets – have also unveiled a big digital upgrade at their ballpark, Citi Field. The ballpark in Queens has added a bunch of LED …
LCD Video Wall Market Demand Up Despite Perceived Migration To Direct View LED: Research March 31, 2022 by Dave Haynes Here’s a case of perception not being reality, with research data suggesting the LCD video wall market is seeing very solid growth at the moment, even though it might seem like the large format display business has shifted heavily from flat panels to direct view LED. However, it looks like a lot of the video …
US Grocer Startup Includes Touchless Self-Checkout In Frictionless Experience Mix March 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes A U.S. grocery start-up that’s pairing healthy foods with frictionless shopping is including touchless self-checkout screens as part of its technology mix. Called Nourish + Bloom Market, the Georgia-based company has plans to include self-checkout terminals that use hand-tracking hardware and related software from Ultraleap as part of the shopping experience. The store is billed …
Miami Art Exhibit Creates Flat Panel Spectacle To Show “Hollowness Of Spectacle” March 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes Warning: art-speak ahead … This is a digital art piece running on a stack of seven narrow bezel 55″ LCDs at the Pérez Art Museum Miami – a seven minute ode to movies and … something. Marco Brambilla describes the piece, Heaven’s Gate, as a “video monument to Hollywood’s veneration of glamour, while retelling the …
E Ink’s Newest Color Displays Boost Color And Contrast; Intended As Print Poster Replacements March 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes E Ink continues to evolve the capabilities of its color e-paper – with a new version of its larger format displays substantially boosting both its color and contrast metrics. The latest generation of the Taiwan company’s Advanced Color ePaper (ACeP) platform, called E Ink Gallery Plus, has a color gamut “ideally reaching” 60,000, and a …
Commercial Flat Panel Display Volume up 20.1% Year-On-Year, Projection Flat: Futuresource March 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes Year-on-year volume global sales for commercial flat panel displays jumped 20.1% in 2021, according to new data from the UK research firm Futuresource Consulting, but commercial projector growth grew by just 0.2%. Given these numbers are tied to an exceptionally weird period of lockdowns, deferred projects and supply chain shortages, they may not be indicative …
NY Artist Puts Printed Political Statements Over DOOH Posters On NYC Subway Platform March 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes Let’s assume that New York contemporary artist Jonathan Allen did not have permission to go in – or have someone go in – to the New York city subway network this weekend and put printed film posters atop the digital OOH screens on the platform – making the political point that while what’s going in …
E-Paper Display Totem Firm Soofa Says US Installed Base Tripled In 2021 March 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes Cambridge, MA-based Soofa seems to getting some traction with its distinct and somewhat more genuine take on smart city digital displays – with 41 cities across 15 U.S. states now using the solar-powered, large format e-paper totems. The company says its U.S. footprint tripled in 2021. “We’ve had rapid growth over the past year as …
