Do Big, To Massive, LED Video Walls Really Need Fixed, Packaged Sizes? February 18, 2020 by Dave Haynes The nature of direct view LED is that it is not really constrained by dimensional limits. A video wall can be the size and shape it needs to be. So I find it curious that many LED marketers are packaging large video walls in fixed sizes – either as giant TVs with frames and stands, …
New Vegas NFL Stadium To Have 345 Foot Wide LED Mesh Screen On Outside Wall February 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes Let’s assume, given the target opening is mid-summer, that the order is already in for a giant 80 foot tall by 345 foot wide transparent LED mesh screen on the outside of Allegiant Stadium, the new venue for the Las Vegas NFL team. The 27,600 square feet display will be the largest freestanding LED marquee …
China LED Makers Trying To Get Back To Work, But Crippled By High Worker Absentee Rates February 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes Common sense would tell you that display technology manufacturing coming out of China will be adversely affected by the COVID-19 outbreak and restrictions on travel in that country. Now, with the Chinese New Year over, factories are trying to resume production, but struggling with high employee absentee rates. The Taiwan-based tech publication DigiTimes reports that …
Taylor Hunter On Impactrum’s Plan To Improve The View On Transparent LED Displays February 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes I love the notion of transparent LED displays – the idea of taking a big surface and making it active, without also creating a big, solid wall that blocks the view in and out. There are “transparent” LED display products – tech that has matured to a level that they look great from the front, …
Topgolf Debuts SIM-based Lounge Concept, With LED Digital Sky January 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes Topgolf has already pretty much reinvented the idea of driving ranges, and now the company has launched a new product that takes on a related golf category, indoor facilities built around simulators. The Lounge by Topgolf shares the same base concept as the indoor sim-driven facilities you might have in your town or city, but …
Expect To See A Lot Of Mini And Micro LED At ISE 2020 January 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe starts three weeks today in Amsterdam, and the PR is starting to roll in from display and software vendors, trumpeting what will be shown at stands at the big AV/IT trade show. A main thing I will be looking for that week is the expected advances in LED display tech, coming mainly …
Queensland Exhibit Uses Big LED, Projection To Tell Nesting Turtles’ Story January 20, 2020 by Dave Haynes Content producers and AV/IT solutions providers who work with retail could sometimes benefit from looking at how big visuals and interactive are done at museums and attractions, which by nature and necessity have to both inform and entertain. Unlike some flagship stores that use very big, very expensive visual tech to apparently do not much …
Report: MicroLED Adoption Expected Within Four Years As Tech Improves, Prices Fall January 16, 2020 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
