Government Office In West China Adds 140 Sq. Meter LED Lobby Screen January 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Default. To access the actual content, click the button …
Huge Irregular-Shaped LED Wall Plays With Physical Layout Of Intersport Flagship Store December 19, 2019 by Dave Haynes It’s been impressive to see how many retailers are putting LED in as signature visuals in flagship stores, but just about every one of them has been a wall-filling landscape or portrait rectangle. So it’s nice to see this project for athletic retailer Intersport store in Graz, Austria, which has an irregular, skewed shape that …
Wells Fargo’s New Hudson Yards Offices Uses Huge LED Wall As Peaceful Distraction December 19, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a massive LED video wall installed in a lounge and stairwell area in Wells Fargo’s new Hudson Yards offices in New York. It’s a 29-foot tall, 6-foot wide Leyard 1.5mm LED array, running on an Analog Way Analog Way Picturall Pro media server. Interestingly, this is a video installation installed not for Wow …
NYC Office Tower Uses Poems, Prose For Unique LED Ticker In Lobby December 17, 2019 by Dave Haynes I was staying down by the World Trade Center in New York last week, and in my efforts to find a specific subway station, I kinda stumbled across 7 World Trade Center – an office tower destroyed and then rebuilt after 9/11. The building’s glass lobby has a giant LED installation by artist Jenny Holzer, which …