Report: MicroLED Adoption Expected Within Four Years As Tech Improves, Prices Fall January 16, 2020 by Super User A report from the Taiwan-based tech publication Digitimes suggests the microLED displays that are mostly seen these days at trade show stands will start seeing broad adoption as early as 2024, for a few reasons. While Sony and Samsung Electronics have unveiled micro LED-equivalent display modules, their prices are over US$50,000 per square meter, far …
Suburban KC Office Block Adds Art-Driven LED Header To Facade January 14, 2020 by Super User We’ve seen LED growing in popularity as signature design feature in the lobbies or grand public spaces of big commercial buildings, and now we’re also seeing it as an external design feature. This is the CityPlace Corporate Center in Overland Park (a section of Kansas City), which now has a big LED header playing a …
Hacked Billboard Had Unlocked Equipment Shed, Used Laptop As Media Player January 13, 2020 by Super User A digital billboard in the Detroit area was hacked last fall, with ads replaced by a very naughty video. Probably like most people, I assumed a couple of teenaged boys with strong computer chops somehow got at the media player and made the change, for the sake of some giggles. I was right, though the …
Government Office In West China Adds 140 Sq. Meter LED Lobby Screen January 10, 2020 by Super User This is an utterly massive LED screen in what must be the lobby of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps’ Command Center. It is a 1.2mm Ledman chip on board display (COB is a different production method from most of the LED display you see out there) and has a resolution of 12,480 by 7290. That …
Planar’s CES 2020 Stand Includes 219″ 0.6mm LED; Jumbo 120″ LCD January 9, 2020 by Super User Portland, OR-based display-maker Planar Systems has a stand at CES 2020 this week and while I have not seen PR, there are tweets out there showing a couple of giant screens and tech advances. Planar has a 0.6mm pitch LED display measuring 216″ diagonal and delivering 8K. Weirdly, the booth image says the display is …
TCL’s Mini-LED Backlit Display At CES A Glimpse Of Where Pro Displays May Go January 7, 2020 by Super User A lot of the media is attracted to the loopy products that turn up each year at CES – like robots that deliver toilet paper rolls – but if you pay more attention and follow outlets that genuinely cover tech advances, there’s good stuff amidst all the noise. An announcement by the Chinese display maker …
Samsung Launches More MicroLED, Portrait Mode TV At CES2020 January 6, 2020 by Super User The massive CES consumer gadgets show is on this week in Las Vegas, and there are plenty of poor souls from this industry who are obligated to be there this week – dealing with endless line-ups for everything and supply/demand hotel pricing that sees terrifying places like Circus Circus charging $300+ a night. The argument …
Abu Dhabi Tourism Puts AR On 40-Foot Picadilly Lights LED Board January 3, 2020 by Super User This is what has been celebrated as the Largest Augmented Reality Screen media campaign done to date – an AR piece done for the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism in London’s Picadilly Circus. The AR activation was done for two weeks last month on Ocean Outdoor’s 40-foot Picadilly Lights board in that famed …
World’s Tallest Building Hosts Massive Car Rally Ad, For Dakar Rally December 30, 2019 by Super User The Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai has long been used as a visual surface for lasers, fireworks and most recently, programmable LED lighting. The 828 meter building – the world’s tallest building – has 163 floors and is clad from top to bottom in LED lighting that’s used for scheduled shows and for booked media …
Tax Prep Giant Adds Big LED Branding Ribbon To HQ Lobby December 30, 2019 by Super User This is the HQ lobby of Kansas City-based tax prep giant H&R Block, which now has a nice horizontal LED ribbon behind the reception/security desk. The wall was put in by AV integrator SKC Communications, using PrimeView displays. I like this because: it has custom creative focused on the brand;the wall has enough scale to …
