Growth Expected In Bundled, All-In-One DV LED Displays: Omdia April 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes There is now enough activity and demand in the area of all-in-one, bundled LED displays to warrant marketplace research and analysis, with a new report from the global research firm Omdia looking specifically at this narrowly-defined product category. Omdia has broken out data from its regular LED Video Displays Market Tracker to look specifically at …
STRATACACHE CEO DETAILS PLANS FOR FIRST US MICROLED DISPLAY PLANT April 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes The trade publication i-micronews has a Q&A post up on its site featuring STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel, providing detail and color about his plans for that big, old semiconductor plant in Oregon that he’s turning into a microLED factory. The interview was done by a couple of guys from Yole Développement, a French research firm …
IDtechEx Report Takes Deep Dive On MicroLED; Full Report Is $6K, But Here’s Exec Summary April 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes The UK-based research firm and consultancy IDtechEx has pushed out an interesting discussion paper about the state and potential marketplace applications for microLED, sorting out its value proposition versus competing technologies like OLED and Quantum Dots LCDs. Unlike other reports from legit research firms (most of the “research” on digital signage tech comes out of …
Next Store In UK Fills Checkout Zone With DV LED Wall April 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a Next fashion apparel and furnishings store in Leicester, UK (go Foxes!) that uses a sweeping direct view LED s the backdrop to its checkout counter. I like this because of the scale of the screen. LCDs and OLEDs are gorgeous, but they are either going to be screens hanging on a wall …
LED China Attracting As Many As 50,000 People, 1,200 Vendors, This Week In Shenzhen April 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes I’m not entirely sure what the COVID situation is in Shenzhen, China, but there is evidently enough comfort around healthy safety for the organizers of LED China to run a live show this week. The event started today, with 1,200 exhibitors and as many as 50,000 attendees, according to the website. There is an option …
DV LED Market Generally Rebounding, But Mainly Just In Chinese Domestic Market April 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes The market research firm Omdia has logged predictably mixed results from direct view LED display manufacturers through the COVID-19 pandemic, though there are indications that the sector is generally rebounding. Omdia’s latest quarterly LED market tracker says recovery began in the third quarter and accelerated further in the fourth quarter. In Q4 2020, 336,257 square …
LED Becomes The Walls In Nike’s Dubai Mall Store April 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a great example of the whole notion of how direct view LED can be something added to a store design, or in cases like this, how it can be the primary architectural design element. It is a Nike store in the huge Dubai Mall, and is a set of LEDs put in by …
Get Glimpses Of The Big Samsung DV LEDs In New LVCC Loop Transport Stations April 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s a look at the big DV LED screens that have been installed in the transport stations below the new parts of the Las Vegas Convention Center. They’re Samsung displays that, I assume, will be used mainly to promote specific events and main sponsors week to week in what is theoretically a situation that has …
Massive Samsung LED Wall Fills Lobby Wall In LVCC’s Almost-Open West Hall February 5, 2026April 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes While the pandemic has meant most people in our industry put a stop to pretty regular swings though Las Vegas for trade shows and conferences, that city’s primary convention center has been expanding its footprint and is just about ready to open. When I was last in that city, the LVCC expansion was just in …
Giant Ferris Wheel Embeds Transparent LED For Grand-Scale Nighttime Visuals April 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is the Eye Of Heihe, one of those giant tourist attraction ferris wheels that seem to be popping up in big cities. In this case it has been kitted out with a huge array of transparent mesh LED. The attraction is in Heihe, on the Chinese side of the China-Russia border north of Beijing. …
