Splashy New Westfield Mall Of Netherlands Using Big Digital Displays Inside And Out May 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Westfield Mall of The Netherlands opened a few weeks ago – Holland’s biggest retail destination with over 280 stores in the vicinity of The Hague. The development cost more than half a billion Euros, but even in a period when retail has been clobbered, the mall is more than 90% leased. Like just about …
Is This The World’s Biggest Digital Menu Display? May 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is certainly the biggest digital menu display I’ve ever seen – a set-up using LED in the common area of a cinema operation in the Cinépolis movie theater chain. Cinépolis is the largest cinema circuit in Latin America and the third worldwide, operating across Mexico, Brazil, part of the U.S. and roughly a dozen …
Dubai Mall Lines Concourses With Big DV LED Back-To-Backs May 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes A lot of the digital signage jobs I have seen lately in shopping malls has tended to be very large direct view LED displays that dominate a space, or LED ribbons that line floors levels in atrium areas a bit like the way LED ribbons line the seating bowls in arenas. So it was interesting …
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. …
MiniLED, MicroLED Showcased This Week At Touch Taiwan April 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes Touch Taiwan is now running in Taipei – with an in-person exhibit hall and with virtual components aimed, at least in part, on foreign buyers who reasons we all know can’t get to the almost COVID-free island country. There are reasons to pay attention because a big chunk of the digital signage display and playback …
Fingrid Welcomes HQ Visitors With Big, Curved Reception Video Wall April 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes Video walls in company lobbies are not new, and neither are curves built into LED video walls. But here’s a nice example of a video wall in an office that does a nice job of working with the curve. This in the Helsinki lobby of Fingrid. It’s a curved LG DV LED wall, put in …
Bahrain’s F1 Track Wraps Famed Tower In 360-degree LED Rings April 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes Motor speedways have such an interesting business model – giant footprints and very expensive infrastructure for hosting a handful of events annually. Consider this 360-degree LED installation on a building at the Formula 1 track in Bahrain, which has that one big race a year, and presumably a fraction of people passing through there the …
Huge 50 Meter-Wide LED Video Wall Used As Changeable Set By Chinese State Broadcaster April 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a huge LED video wall – 50 meters by 10 meters tall – being used for an ever-changeable broadcast set by a Chinese state broadcaster. The curved wall was put up to help run a two-hour live TV event recently, called CCTV Consumer Rights Day Gala. I will leave it to other, more …
LED Pulse Turns Suspended Light Strings Into Low-Rez Three-Dimensional Motion Display April 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip – Sound and Video Contractor A Hong Kong company has started showing a display system that uses suspended LED strings – with each light emitter mapped and addressable – to create motion visuals that have volume and dimension. The system from LED Pulse is called Dragon O. It can be scaled up to …
AUO Latest Display Giant To Add MicroLED To Product Portfolio; Showing Demos At TouchTaiwan April 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes I wrote earlier today about Touch Taiwan going ahead as a live trade show next week, aimed at a domestic crowd and in an island country that is seeing just a handful of new COVID cases day to day. An industry friend sent along a show promo video from AUO – a Taiwan company that …
