Big Oops! Huge LED Wall In Ruins At Mandalay Bay’s Arena May 13, 2019 by Super User There are endless theories, it seems, as to what happened – but what is without question is that the other day, an LED wall hung on a truss for events at the Mandalay Bay’s arena in Las Vegas collapsed. It seems to have been a relatively slow motion collapse, as opposed to a catastrophic crash. …
Robert Heise On GDS Sets Itself Apart In An Increasingly Crowded Outdoor Display Field May 8, 2019 by Super User Most people think about northern Italy for wine, food, fashion and beautiful scenery, but it’s also home to some well-established technology companies like Global Display Solutions, or GDS. The company has been around for decades and built up a very solid business for rugged, industrial-grade displays for use-cases like bank ATMs. GDS expanded into digital …
From Oldest To Newest: Barclays Refreshes Massive LED Facade in NY Times Square May 3, 2019 by Super User The UK-based investment bank Barclays has refreshed the LED displays on the facade of its New York City headquarters on Seventh Avenue, putting on 7,046 square feet of new direct LED. “The enhanced signage system is a powerful example of how we infuse digital innovation into everything we do here at Barclays,” says Richard Haworth, …
LG Announces Dates For Display Tech Road Shows Across US May 1, 2019 by Super User LG has announced the schedule for its annual TechTour, with the first roving road show date set for two weeks in Washington, DC. The electronics giant has events planned for: May 14 – Washington, DC July 24 – Dallas Aug. 22 – Orange County, CA Sept. 12 – San Jose, CA Sept. 26 – Chicago …
Viva Vision In Vegas – World’s Biggest LED Display – Starts Getting Facelift April 26, 2019 by Super User Anyone who’s been to Las Vegas a few times has probably, at some point, visited Fremont Street – the old school, downtown part of Las Vegas that is even weirder than the Strip. The big feature of that hotel and restaurant stretch is an LED canopy that runs a scheduled multimedia show. That canopy, called …
Denver’s 900 LED Light Pole Welcome Sign Switched Off For Fix, Less Than Two Years After Lighting Up April 22, 2019 by Super User An ambitious project that was intended to generate new revenues for Denver’s airport, and showcase the innovative LED technology of Panasonic, has run into big problems less than two years after it was first switched on. The $14.5 million art and ad media piece features 900 LED light poles in a 1,000 foot curving line …
Breaking Down The Jargon Of LED Pixel Pitch April 15, 2019 by Eric Seigler Guest Post: Mitch Leathers, SNA Displays Most LED display manufacturers worth their salt can talk a good game. As someone who has spent almost 15 years in the digital display industry, in the marketing/communications space, I know this well. Sales and marketing teams throughout our industry – hell, all industries – tout their products and …
Reno’d Dallas Hotel Adds Big Pair Of LED Art Columns To Entry April 11, 2019 by Super User This is a nice LED art piece that wraps around two columns at the entrance of the newly-renovated Sheraton Dallas Hotel. The historic hotel’s entrance uses 2.5mm LED modules from SNA Displays. Each of the eight faces on the columns measures 8’10” high and 3’11” wide, and has a resolution of 1,080 pixels tall by …
LED Mesh Screens Have Come A Long Way, But … April 11, 2019 by Super User There were numerous overseas vendors at ISE – and I expect to see more at Infocomm in a couple of months – showing mesh-screen LED displays. They have come a long way in a relatively short time, and when running, the pixel pitch of these things can be good enough to deliver crisp, rich and …
Shiseido Installs 63-Foot Sony Crystal LED Wall In Its New Yokohama Innovation Center April 10, 2019 by Super User Sony has announced what I’d imagine is its biggest deal yet for its much gawked at Crystal LED video wall technology – a monster 63 feet by 17 feet screen built for the Japanese cosmetics group Shiseido, based in Yokohama. It is in the company’s new Shiseido Global Innovation Center. The aggregate of all those teeny …
