Future Displays: Exploring The Display Technology Landscape Of Today And Tomorrow January 15, 2025 by Super User Who knows what displays will look like well into the future, but what we all see today is pretty much what we’re all going to see in five to 10 years – though their form and underlying technologies are most certainly evolving. And will continue to do so. This Future Displays report started out as …
E Ink, Wi-Charge Partner On Wirelessly-Powered Color E-Paper Posters January 13, 2025 by Super User The Israeli start-up Wi-Charge is starting to get some traction with its efforts to work with display manufacturers, working out a partnership that makes it possible to power E Ink’s top-of-the-line Spectra 6 color e-paper display panels. While e-paper displays already have dramatically lower power demands than conventional displays, they use batteries that gradually loose …
75-inch Color E-paper Display For DOOH Networks Showing At ISE January 10, 2025 by Super User Well this is interesting … The Taiwan firm Agile Display Solutions has debuted what it calls the world’s first full color 75-inch e-paper display, at a digital out of home event in Belgium. The unit is an E Ink display – either Kaleido or the high-end, richer color Spectra 6. Agile already markets a 32-inch …
Bug Or Feature? When Color E-Paper Switches Images, It Glitches Out (And I Think That’s Good) January 10, 2025 by Super User Color e-paper is mainly being marketed as a sustainable and efficient replacement for paper posters, and E Ink’s newest Spectra 6 products produce visuals that are genuinely good enough to supplant print. They don’t use any energy when the static visual is loaded and displayed, but they have a bit of what looks like a …
Sony Again Making Sustainability Central To ISE Exhibit Hall Presence December 13, 2024 by Super User In the wake of advancing the ISE plans of PPDS (Philips), I came across information about another big pro AV display vendor, Sony, is doing at the show in Barcelona in early February. Sustainability and ESG policies are not much of a thing beyond the largest North American companies, but it is a big discussion …
PPDS Advances ISE 2025 Presence That Includes New Philips LED And Sustainability Products December 13, 2024 by Super User The big display manufacturers have started talking up what they will be showing at ISE in Barcelona, though I think some of them might want to get CES PR out of the way before they start touting the shiny new pots and pans they will be showing off in Barcelona. PPDS, aka Philips pro displays …
Testing Suggests Digital Signage Players On ChromeOS 35% More Energy-Efficient Than Same Devices Running Windows December 3, 2024 by Super User Sixteen:Nine’s German-language content partners invidis have an interesting story up discussing the merits of the ChromeOS operating system for use in digital signage, covering some familiar ground like cloud updating and security, but also getting into a less discussed area – energy consumption. The managing director of the Munich-based value-added distributor Concept International, Mike Finckh, …
PPDS Gets A Deployment Of Its Lovely, Pricey E Ink Tableaux Screens … But Just Four Units November 26, 2024 by Super User Color e-paper is great tech, but prices likely have to come down by at least half – or more – before the industry is likely to see broad adoption. A good case in point is an announcement from PPDS (aka Philips) announcing a deployment of its E Ink-based Philips Tableaux displays at a historic restaurant and …
Transit Info Start-up Pairs Analog Route Signs With E-Paper Real-Time Update Inserts November 21, 2024 by Super User While Taiwan’s E Ink is making a big push into color e-paper and more sophisticated products for digital signage and DOOH applications, a much smaller Canadian competitors is taking the opposite path – developing an oversized but super-simple monochrome e-paper sign for transit applications. Ynvisible Interactive has announced what it calls a “collaboration” with Waypoint …
Local Dimming Tech Reduces Praevar’s New High-Bright Display Power Demands By 35% November 19, 2024 by Super User Toronto-based specialty display company Praevar has launched a new high-brightness outdoor LCD display that uses dynamic local dimming backlight technology and software to reduce its energy consumption by roughly 35% over high-brights of the same size and spec on the market. Praevar says its Podium 75-inch units can push 4,000 nits of brightness and run …
