LG Announces Dates For Display Tech Road Shows Across US May 1, 2019 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
LED Tower That Does Times Square NYE Ball Drop Getting Facelift April 10, 2019 by Dave Haynes Times Square in New York is getting yet another LED digital signage display upgrade, with the out-of-home advertising firms, New Tradition, signing a master lease agreement on One Times Square – the site of the iconic New Year’s Eve ball drop. The new 350-foot-tall digital signage screen – a collection of stacked LED boards – will …
Orlando University Makes LED Displays Central To New $6M Esports Arena April 8, 2019 by Dave Haynes You start to understand how e-sports is a real thing when you read a piece about a U.S. college investing $6 million on a screen-filled competitive gaming arena. AVIXA, the trade association behind Infocomm and ISE, has a case study up on its website about Full Sail University, a media-arts college in the greater Orlando area. …
DSE 2019 Booth Previews: D3 Shows How It Gets Visions Accomplished For LED Clients March 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes D3 – DSE Booth 1226 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? This year we’re putting our guests in the driver’s seat. Grab our OneTouch tablet control and take command of the industry’s most robust all-in-one controller, the AEPIMS, capable of orchestrating complex configurations …
