Startup Touts Gear And Plan For End-Users To Make Low Rent Direct View LED Displays October 10, 2019 by Super User Heavy traffic, every day, for posts on Raspberry Pi options and free digital signage software tell me there is a substantial constituency out there that does not want to pay market prices for mainstream digital signage technology. I’ve seen it with player hardware (Android sticks and set-top boxes) and play-out software, but I did not …
That LED Barge Has Made Its Last Trip On The Rivers Around Manhattan October 9, 2019 by Super User New York City has reached a settlement with the Florida company that upset many residents by operating a floating LED billboard barge on the East and Hudson Rivers. Under the terms of an agreement announced Tuesday, Ballyhoo Media must pay a $100,000 fine if its barge is seen again along the waterways. The settlement came …
Those Madly-Spinning Light Wands Find Logical Homes At Retail End-Caps October 9, 2019 by Super User I’m not much of a fan of those madly-spinning LED light wands that kinda sorta do 3D holographic images, because eye candy tends to have a short shelf life and things that spin eventually fail. But the UK company that is the market leader for the tech may have found a good logical home for …
It Would Take 18+ Days To Make A MicroLED-based Smartphone Screen … October 4, 2019 by Super User Via Display Daily and Digitimes … One of the two big barriers facing the development of microLED displays is figuring out how to mass transfer a lot of the microscopic LED lights at once, since current high-speed manufacturing methods are too slow to make larger screens feasible. The Taiwan tech publication Digitimes is reporting how …
Home To Raptors, Leafs Upgrades Its LED Screen Used For Public Viewing October 3, 2019 by Super User This is the new direct view LED board facing out to sports fans and local office workers outside the Toronto arena that’s home to both the Maple Leafs hockey team and NBA champion Raptors. The new LG-made screen at a plaza called Maple Leaf Square is 62 feet by 35 feet – 37 per cent …
Korean Tire-maker Adds Mind-Blowing LED Video Wall In HQ Lobby October 1, 2019 by Super User The content for the video wall in the Seoul R&D offices of Nexen, a Korean tire company, is freaking amazing. The lobby of the building has a 30 meter (98.5 feet) wide by 7 meter (23 feet) tall fine pitch LED media wall running a diverse range of custom creative developed by the agency d’strict. …
Christie Goes Into The Back-Story Of Its LED MicroTiles October 1, 2019 by Super User When I first saw Christie’s second-generation MicroTiles back this past winter at ISE in Amsterdam, my first reaction was probably like many, as in: “Those are LEDs, not MicroTiles!” They looked good and had a different structural set-up, but I wasn’t getting it. MicroTiles, as I knew them, were small display cubes unrelated to LED. …
Samsung Brings Prismview’s LED Sales Into Mother Ship October 1, 2019 by Super User Samsung has rolled the sales and marketing teams of Prismview – the LED company that grew up as Yesco – into its overall display sales team. Utah-based Prismview – which got the new name after it was acquired in 2015 by Samsung – had been operating as a subsidiary until this change, announced today. Prismview …
More Hacked Signs And More Naughty Content – This Time In Detroit September 30, 2019 by Super User A reader pointed out a second digital signage screen hack from this weekend, this one on a digital OOH highway billboard in suburban Detroit. The big digital board was, like one in Auckland, NZ, showing porn video material. The Detroit Free Press reports it happened late Saturday night and the racy material was up for …
Dutch LED Firm Marketing Drop Ceiling Decor Bundle September 26, 2019 by Super User The Dutch LED display company LedGo has tried to differentiate itself from the vast horde of companies selling visual display solutions by focusing on non-traditional stuff like LED floors and ceilings. They pushed out an email this morning that caught my eye for a couple of reasons: 1 – Prices are coming way down on …
