Cruise Line’s Mega-Ship Includes Dining Hall With Experiential LED Walls August 9, 2019 by Super User The Spectrum of the Seas, a new mega-cruise ship in the fleet of Royal Caribbean International, uses big direct view LED screens to great effect in its main dining room. The three level dining area can feed more than 1,800 people at once. Passengers walk in from two decks, via a 16-meter-long LED corridor. For …
NanoLumens’ Joe’ Lloyd On How Integrators View The LCD vs LED Video Wall Decision July 31, 2019 by Super User I sometimes get white papers and research that a vendor hopes I report on or talk about, and then decide against it because the information is hopelessly skewed in favor of that vendor. It’s a bit like those recipe pamphlets that suggest you don’t just add a cup of this, it has to be specifically …
Iconic Philly Department Store Building Adds Gorgeous LED Digital Entry Canopy July 30, 2019 by Super User Love this – the main entry to an iconic old department store building in Philadelphia was updated with a digital canopy and flanking displays, and now runs gorgeous custom creative. The former Lit Brothers Department Store was a cultural landmark that operated for nearly a century in Philly before closing its doors. Now renovated, revitalized, and …
Broadsign Gets Toehold In China With New Media Network Deal July 23, 2019 by Super User Montreal’s Broadsign has secured its first toehold into the Chinese digital out of home media market, winning a deal to be the CMS software platform for Oriental Sunrise Media Group. The deal is just a few licenses, for now, but one of the active screens run by the company is also one of Asia’s largest digital displays …
Don’t Get Burned: Remote Power For LED Is Unnecessary July 18, 2019 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Eric Seigler, Nanolumens When working with any sort of light-producing electrical product, be it a laptop, a desk lamp, or a commercial digital display, you need to be mindful of the product’s heat output. If you’ve felt the warmth of a computer on your lap or the heat of an older lamp bulb, …
Video: Mind-blowing 3D Content At Giant Seoul Duty-Free July 15, 2019 by Super User Hat Tip Gary Kayye for noting thus on LinkedIn … This is some rather amazing three dimensional content on a ceiling-suspended 3.5mm LED install at the Shinsegae duty free store in Gangnam, the famed Seoul shopping district. The content was put together by D’Strict, the Korean company that also did that similarly suspended ceiling over …
Wasting Away Past Margaritaville Resorts Many New LED Displays July 15, 2019 by Super User You know LED costs are getting palatable and workable when big outdoor screens formerly reserved for NFL stadiums and high traffic highways and public plazas start being installed besides oversized resort swimming pools. This is the new Margaritaville Resort Orlando, in Kissimmee, which has more than 30 digital displays, including LCD monitors, free-standing kiosks, and interior …
Charlotte Office Tower Lobby Adds Huge, Curved 4K LED Wall July 2, 2019 by Super User This is a newly installed and fired-up direct view LED video wall in the lobby of a new office tower in the financial services-dominant downtown of Charlotte, NC, spotted on Linkedin. The thing is a beast – large enough to deliver 4K visuals even though the pixel pitch is 4.7mm, which is almost 2X the …
Touch Taiwan Expects 40,000 For Show Focused On Emerging Display Tech Like Micro & MiniLED June 24, 2019 by Super User This seems to be the Year of the Trade Show around Sixteen:Nine. So far, I’ve done six, and number seven will be Touch Taiwan, in late August in Taipei. It is the biggest event of the year for Taiwan’s display industry, and should pull some 40,000 attendees Aug. 28-30 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center. …
Debacle On 34th Street: One Very Big, Very Out Fine Pitch LED June 20, 2019 by Super User This is the Footlocker store on 34th Street in New York, across from Macy’s. An industry colleague sent me a photo showing the huge LED wall, intersected by an escalator, was out. Not good, but I figured, cut the guys a break – it could be a maintenance issue and maybe the screen was back …
