Display Week: Sun Vision Display Touts Outdoor LCD Display With Up To 95% Less Energy Usage May 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes This a demo video from the SID Display Week virtual stand for an Illinois company called Sun Vision Display, which is showing an outdoor-rated LCD display that uses reflective LCD technology. The company uses reflective LCD technology to work WITH bright sunlight, instead of cranking up the brightness on a conventional LED backlight array to …
Display Week: DSCC’s Analysis Suggest MicroLED A Niche Product; Manufacturing Challenges Remain May 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes MicroLED has received a ton of buzz in digital signage circles the last 2-3 years because of the proposition of building big seamless video walls that look as good as LCD or OLED. The big barrier to widespread adoption has been cost – driven in part by a need to make production more efficient and …
Display Week: Japan Display Shows Transparent LCD As Variation On COVID Shields May 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes Japan Display or JDI – a specialty LCD display manufacturer owned by Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi – had some of the more impressive tech at Display Week that last time it was an in-person show. This week, the company has a virtual stand at the event and I was intrigued by a link to a …
Display Week: E Ink Shows Its Advances In Color, Motion E-Paper Displays May 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes E Ink has a stand at the virtual SID Display Week, and this video (below) walks through where the company is at with things like showing color and animations. Every year, the product gets a little closer to something that competes favorably with more established technology, most notably LCD. You can see in the video …
Display Week: BenQ Touts Back To Back Transparent OLEDs; Use-Case Kinda Fuzzy May 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Society For Information Display’s Display Week is now live – virtual like most things, still. It is a display nerd fest that is aimed much more at engineers than end-users, and it is a serious challenge for people like me who never even mused about a career in advanced polymers or electrical engineering. I …
World Out of Home Organization Launching New Audience Measurement Initiative May 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes Audience measurement is a huge factor in the out of home media business – both analog and digital – and the global volunteer body that’s trying to herd the media company cats has developed a set of guidelines designed to help more easily sell the mediums. The World Out of Home Organization (or WOO) will …
ISE’s 2-Day In-Person Event In Barcelona Has Roughly Two Dozen Exhibitors May 11, 2021 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe has released the list of on-premise exhibitors for its two-day in-person event at the start of June in Barcelona, and it is reasonable to describe the list as modest. Some would suggest a shadow of its normal self, but that’s the situation, not the show. Hopefully, February 2022 in Barcelona will see …
ISE Regional Events Planned For June In Amsterdam, Munich Scrapped; Two Others Still On For June April 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes The regional events Integrated Systems Europe planned to stage in June in Amsterdam and Munich have been scrapped, but similar events planned that month for London and Barcelona are still going ahead. Mike Blackman, Managing Director for Integrated Systems Events, the company that runs the show for owners AVIXA and CEDIA, says the ongoing pandemic …
Lextar Demos Super Fine-Pitch 0.46mm MiniLED Video Display; Transparent MicroLED April 28, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Taiwan tech company Lextar has taken the curious step of announcing what will be on display LAST WEEK at the Touch Taiwan trade show – noting some interesting new mini and micro LED display products. More normally, tech marketers would push out this kind of information ahead of a show, or on opening day. …
DSF, DSEG, AVIXA Plan Digital Signage Certification Week For June April 27, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Federation (DSF) and the Digital Signage Experts Group (DSEG, or for total simplicity, the Brawns), have started something called Digital Signage Certification Week – a period in June intended to promote credentialing and professional development in digital signage and experiential technologies. The three-day program involves the Digital Signage Certified Expert (DSCE) and …
