New Cruise Ship Features 305 Foot LED Barrel Ceiling November 4, 2019 by Dave Haynes Moving to a coastal city that’s a tourist magnet means I now see giant cruise ships all summer and fall when we get down to the harbor. Some days, there are as many as five ships docked in Halifax. I am steadily amazed at how insanely big the newest ships are, and one that’s launching …
30,000 Feet Of Programmable LEDs Drive New Guitar Hotel’s Media Facade November 1, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is the LED lighting show on the newly opened Guitar Hotel at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino just outside of Miami. The 34-story destination resort has nearly 30,000 linear feet of programmable LEDs that wrap the building and conform to the unique contoured exterior. The vertical guitar strings on the building extend …
A Quick Look At New Digital Signage In Downtown San Francisco October 29, 2019 by Dave Haynes I was in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago to see all the Samsung/PrismView LED and smart displays at the new Chase Center, but I also had a couple of free hours to have a quick look around. I’ve seen the LED displays in the lobbies of the cluster of Salesforce office towers downtown, …
Canada’s CBC Fills Election Night Set With Direct-view LED October 29, 2019 by Dave Haynes Canada had its federal election last week – a five week or so sprint of an election instead of the ones south of us, in the US, which seemingly never really end. One of the national broadcasters – the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – had a one-night elections set that heavily used direct view LED to …
Houston Office Block Enlivens Lobby With 32′ by 18′ LED Wall October 28, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of what I assume will continue to be a trend in the commercial property business to enliven the lobbies of their big buildings with large format LED displays. In this case, it is 1100 Louisiana, an office block owned by the international real estate firm Hines. Ground-floor renovations to the building included …
Another Shape-Shifting LED Screen Surfaces, This Time In Malaysia October 28, 2019 by Dave Haynes You’d think when a top five global brand has a dismal failure with its splashy, expensive and very high profile robotic LED display, that would get around to the potential user base and put the brakes on other deep-pocketed companies trying the same thing. Apparently not … This is somewhere in Malaysia – probably Kuala …
NBA’s Warriors Light Up LED-laden New Home Court Building In San Francisco October 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes Sports and entertainment venues have long been an opportune market for digital signage vendors because of the need for owner/operators to both communicate a lot of changing information, and drive the visual excitement of the event experience. They’re also opportune because venue operators are pretty steadily looking to up their technology game, particularly with newly …
Startup Touts Gear And Plan For End-Users To Make Low Rent Direct View LED Displays October 10, 2019 by Dave Haynes Heavy traffic, every day, for posts on Raspberry Pi options and free digital signage software tell me there is a substantial constituency out there that does not want to pay market prices for mainstream digital signage technology. I’ve seen it with player hardware (Android sticks and set-top boxes) and play-out software, but I did not …
That LED Barge Has Made Its Last Trip On The Rivers Around Manhattan October 9, 2019 by Dave Haynes New York City has reached a settlement with the Florida company that upset many residents by operating a floating LED billboard barge on the East and Hudson Rivers. Under the terms of an agreement announced Tuesday, Ballyhoo Media must pay a $100,000 fine if its barge is seen again along the waterways. The settlement came …
Those Madly-Spinning Light Wands Find Logical Homes At Retail End-Caps October 9, 2019 by Dave Haynes I’m not much of a fan of those madly-spinning LED light wands that kinda sorta do 3D holographic images, because eye candy tends to have a short shelf life and things that spin eventually fail. But the UK company that is the market leader for the tech may have found a good logical home for …
