DV LED Report Coming Monday January 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes That promised direct view LED Special Report will be out early Monday, available as a free, no-strings, no registration download. The 50-plus page report, in PDF format, is a follow-up on the original Special Report done by Sixteen:Nine and released in early 2018. Much has changed, and that’s reflected in the material. The report is …
Austrian Bank Uses Abstract LED Arrays, Inside And Out, To Drive Customer Experience January 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a nice indoor and outdoor LED set-up at by the Austrian bank Raiffeisenlandesbank, in Vienna. A half-round vertical stack over the entry is peppered with LED tiles in abstract array, and that theme carries inside the street-level glass windows, where there are more LEDs in equally unstructured patterns. The Austrian CMS software firm …
The Latest Crazy Anamorphic Video For That Big Seoul DV-LED Display January 20, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Seoul-based creative shop D’strict has activated another crazy anamorphic creative piece for that big Samsung DV-LED display in a main Seoul shopping area. I’m not sure how to even describe this. D’strict says it is a “kitschy and unique experience of everyday stuff turning soft. Humans, animals, plants, and even objects become soft and …
Sony Donates Crystal LED Video Wall, Other AV Tech, To New Int’l African American Museum January 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes Sony Corporation of America is making a $1.7 million product donation to the the International African American Museum (IAAM) that’s going up in Charleston, SC, with the key component being a 32 foot wide fine pitch LED video wall. The in-kind donation is made possible through the Sony’s Global Social Justice Fund, and will be used to create displays …
London’s Cheese Grater Gets 2mm DV-LED Upgrade For Lobby January 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is the updated reception lobby of The Leadenhall Building in the financial district of London – known by the nickname of The Cheese Grater, because of its tall wedge shape. The lobby originally had a 24-screen videowall, but the operators switched that out for direct view LED, putting in 32 sq. meters of 2mm …
Leyard Turns On Vast “MicroLED” Video Wall In Chinese EnergyCo Control Room January 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes The giant Chinese LED display manufacturer Leyard has started manufacturing, shipping and installing large format what it calls microLED displays – lighting up a vast wall in a Chinese utility company’s control room. The wall-filling display was activated on Dec. 31, 2020 for CHN ENERGY. That company is based in Beijing, but it is huge, …
TCL Unveils Next-Gen Super-Thin, High-Contrast Displays Using MiniLED For CES January 11, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Chinese electronics firm TCL is very much a consumer-driven company, but what happens with TVs often finds its way to commercial display design. It is CES this week and the firm announced a range of new products, including new miniLED-based TVs that show where that technology best fits on the commercial side of displays. …
Samsung Debuts 110-Inch MicroLED TV, With 4Vue, For CES 2021 January 11, 2021 by Dave Haynes CES 2021 is on, but it is virtual, so there’s no jammed trade show in Las Vegas and we will all likely see far fewer broadcast news stories about the buzzworthy, crazy or purpose-deficient gadgets being launched annually at this circus. The show is indeed on, though, and the big tech companies are still using …
Ground-Level LED Billboard Bisected By Staircase Leading Into NJ Mega-Mall January 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting use of outdoor direct view LED – a billboard-sized display at ground level that bisects a wide entry staircase. It just went in at the American Dream mega-mall in the New Jersey Meadowlands area, near New York City. As is obvious from the pic, the manufacturer is SNA Displays, which also …
Sony Launches Two Next-Gen Crystal LED Video Wall Products January 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes Sony Electronics has announced the next generation of its Crystal LED video wall display series – the technology that gained all the attention when Sony first launched Crystal LED. The original Crystal LED was the industry’s first look at large format microLED video walls, and the new versions, from what I am hearing, are microLED-ish …
