New Cruise Ships To Feature Giant 57-Foot LED Walls Showing Live Video Of Surroundings January 25, 2019 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Nanolumens CEO Rick Cope Has Left Company He Founded January 10, 2019 by Dave Haynes Nanolumens founder Rick Cope has left the company he founded and ran for several years, to pursue (as the saying goes) other interests. The colorful former US Marine built the Atlanta-area company up from the idea stage – marketing indoor LED displays that were skinny, light and flexible to a pro AV industry that had …
Samsung Debuts Jumbo And TV-Sized Versions Of The Wall Micro LED Display January 7, 2019 by Dave Haynes Samsung now has jumbo and small versions of The Wall – the micro LED display it introduced year ago at CES. The Korean electronics giant’s First Look CES 2019 event today features a new 219″ display and a 75” version that’s in line with the form factor for large TVs in homes. At last year’s …
LED Billboard Barge Cruising NYC’s Waters Predictably Upsetting Residents January 3, 2019 by Dave Haynes It should surprise exactly no one that at least some of the good residents of New York are not all that thrilled that a barge with big-ass LED screens on it is working as a floating billboard on the Hudson River. This Gothamist post lays out the public upset and civic position on Ballyhoo Media, …
