Next Week’s AVIXA Digital Signage Power Hour Is Focused On LED And MicroLED September 16, 2020 by Dave Haynes Direct View LED technology is the subject of the next Digital Signage Power Hour, a monthly virtual series 16:9 has been doing with the Munich-based consultancy invidis for AVIXA. The event is Sept. 22 at 1 PM Eastern. I’m the moderator and we’ll have a really strong set of industry experts for a roundtable chat …
New Vegas NFL Stadium Lights Up, Tests, Its Giant LED Mesh Facade September 16, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a smartphone cam shot of the media mesh LED wall turned on and being tweaked at the new Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, home of the relocated Raiders NFL team. The shot is from a Vegas sportswriter. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Default. To access the actual content, click the …
Huge Samsung 70,000 Halo LED Display Used For First Time At LA’s New SoFi Stadium September 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes The NFL is now into its season and one of the new venues is SoFi Stadium in LA, which has, among many things, a 70,000 sq. ft. LED halo videoboard hanging over the playing surface. The dual-sided Samsung display is touted as having the only 4K end-to-end video production in a stadium, though I am …
LG Launches Its Own MicroLED Video Wall For Signage; And Maybe Russian Oligarchs September 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes LG has started marketing its own microLED display across several key global markets, including the Americas, Europe, and Asia, under the brand name LG MAGNIT. LG is touting what it calls a proprietary Black Coating display technology that seems to be a variation on the “potted” or “glue-on-board” display modules that have come out in …
Scotland’s Edinburgh Int’l Airport Adds Vast LED Wall To Revamped Check-in Hall September 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes The UK’s AV Magazine has a great piece up online about new digital work done at the international airport outside of Edinburgh, Scotland – with the focal point a super-wide LED display in the check-in hall. The initial plan was a row of tiled LCDs, perhaps inspired by what was done at Orlando’s airport. But …
Canada’s Media Resources Acquires Irvin In U.S. Expansion Bid For LED Sign Provider September 9, 2020 by Dave Haynes The LED-centric sign company Media Resources, based in the greater Toronto area, has acquired a U.S. firm, Irvin, in a push to expand its presence south of the border. Media Resources, a traditional outdoor billboard and printing firm that has broadened and pivoted into LED in recent years, says blending the two companies will “will …
LED Walls Front Giant New Training Room For Transport Solutions Firm September 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is the big training room at the newly-built corporate headquarters in Atlanta of SMC3 – which uses a pair of fine pitch LEDs to showcase the company’s products, train employees, and host corporate events. The company – which does solutions for the trucking industry – built in a training room that seats up to 500 …
65 Foot Programmable LED Light Sculpture Rises In Warner Media’s NYC Offices August 31, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is called The Prow, a light sculpture that can also serve as a very different kind of digital sign at its location, the splashy new HQ of Warner Media in New York. I wrote earlier in the month about the digital job done for workplace and visitor communications over 27 floors of a new …
LED Mesh Wall For Public Art Lights Up In Metro Vancouver August 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes Via AV Interactive This is a semi-transparent LED mesh wall wrapping around the corner of a mixed-use tower in in Burnaby, BC, a city in the immediate orbit of Vancouver. The screen, with a shape very reminiscent of that big Samsung display in Seoul, is very different in that it is there solely to run …
Primeview Debuts Giant 32:9 Ratio Turnkey LED Display August 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes The New York-based LED display solutions company Primeview has announced a new line of indoor turn-key LED displays, including what the company says is the world’s first 32×9 aspect ratio standard, 3840×1080 pixel resolution, bezel-free panel display. The units come in 1.2mm, 1.5mm, 1.9mm or 2.5mm pixel pitch, and are geared to digital signage applications …
