Christie Launches Next-Gen MicroTiles Based On LED Display Tech February 4, 2019 by Super User In an interesting and, I’d argue, puzzling move, Christie has re-launched its much-celebrated MicroTiles display series with technology that has very little shared DNA with the original, stackable projection cubes. The new MicroTiles are LED modules that are, in just about every respect, similar to the scores of other fine-pitch LED products out there. “Christie …
LA Office Tower Video Walls Light Up To Support Rams’ Super Bowl Appearance January 29, 2019 by Super User The LA-based design studio StandardVision collaborated with the LA Rams NFL team to develop content celebrating the team’s season and its appearance in Sunday’s Super Bowl game, against the New England Patriots. The company produced huge video banners that are now running at at the US Bank Tower (633 Hope Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90071) and One …
Irony: Coke’s Times Square LED Board Shape-Shifting Again, But Done In Creative January 29, 2019 by Super User Here is some serious irony for you … A NYC reader who has a deep background in out of home advertising periodically sends me images and videos of that ill-fated Coca-Cola display in Times Square – the one that used incredibly-complex robotics to deliver visual effects that could have just been done in the creative. …
New Cruise Ships To Feature Giant 57-Foot LED Walls Showing Live Video Of Surroundings January 25, 2019 by Super User The Scandinavian cruise line Hurtigruten is building a pair of ships that will feature 57-foot tall LED in a seven-storey atrium area, running live video of the surroundings, as well as pre-planned content triggered by the ship’s location. Hurtigruten is most known for its operations along Norway’s western and northern coast between Bergen and Kirkenes, …
Samsung’s The Wall Back At ISE, And Ready For It’s Close-Up January 25, 2019 by Super User When I first saw Samsung’s micro LED display product – The Wall – a year ago at ISE 2018, viewers were kept at a distance of maybe 10 feet from the physical screen, with the screen set back in a room. I assumed that was to keep all the Pro AV nerds from touching the …
Giant LED Banner Starts Revolving In Famed Kuala Lumpur Mall January 25, 2019 by Super User This is what’s touted to be the world’s largest double-sided LED display, a revolving ad banner in a six-storey shopping mall at the base of the famous Petronas twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The banner is a 4.7mm pixel pitch, 19-foot wide by 33.5-foot high NanoLumens screen that rotates 359 degrees (I’m guessing it rotates …
50-Foot Fine-Pitch LED Strip Added To Downtown Calgary’s Pedway System January 22, 2019 by Super User Calgary, Alberta’s forest of energy sector-centric office towers is interconnected above the streets by a series of enclosed and climate-controlled (usually) pedway bridges, with the mezzanine levels of many of the buildings filled with retail and services. It’s an environment that teems with business professionals – geologists, engineers and lawyers – so it is an …
New Orleans Car Dealer Uses Digital Billboards To Troll NFL After Missed Call January 22, 2019 by Super User Hat Tip to Datacall’s Tim Vance for flagging this … A New Orleans man who owns multiple car dealerships around that city has booked LED billboards around the Atlanta area to troll the National Football League ahead of the Super Bowl there, in the wake of an awful missed call that very, very likely kept …
Nike’s House Of Innovation In NYC Great On Experience, Terrible On Screens January 16, 2019 by Super User When I was at the NRF show this week in New York, I bumped into numerous industry friends – some who encouraged me to get away from the exhibit venue and head over to the new-ish Nike “House of Innovation” flagship on 5th Avenue. It was mind-blowing, I was told. So I grabbed an Uber …
LG Now Actively Marketing Its Transparent LED Film For Glass Surfaces January 16, 2019 by Super User LG has started actively marketing the transparent LED film, for windows and architectural glass, it has been demonstrating at trade shows for the last couple of years. The film is only 1.5mm thick (about the thickness of a dime coin) and pushes more than 1,000 nits of brightness in each 668×480 mm panel. Each of those …
