LG To Show 8K OLED At CES; Samsung Rumored To Show Micro LED TV January 2, 2018 by Super User Numerous tech blogs are reporting that LG will be showing an 8K OLED display this year at CES. The 88-inch display has a resolution of 7680×4320, which is 33 million+ pixels. “The successful development of the world’s first 8K OLED display is a milestone for the 8K era and underscores the exciting potential of OLED,” …
Canada’s National Arts Centre Switches On North America’s Largest Transparent LED Wall January 1, 2018 by Super User Last night, on a very frigid New Year’s Eve, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada officially switched on a three-storey signature LED display called the Kipnes Lantern. It is the largest transparent LED screen in North America and fills the windows of the newly rejuvenated building in the capital city. It is using Vancouver-based …
Twin LED Walls Light Up 55 Water Lobby In Wall Street December 26, 2017 by Super User This is a nice pair of 20 by 8 foot fine pitch LED screens that have been lit up in the lobby of 55 Water Street, in the Wall Street district of Lower Manhattan. The total resolution on the screens is 6,400 by 1,260 pixels, which I assume means each of them is 3,200 by …
Sixteen:Nine’s Best Of 2017 December 21, 2017 by Super User I’m working with a UK company on formal awards – and at some point I might actually have time to review the entries (there are numerous judges) – but I have my own thoughts on what impressed me in the past year. Going down the list, which is not in any order, most of these …
See How A Lexus Gets Lit Up And Reactive With 42,000 LEDs December 20, 2017 by Super User Hat Tip Tom McGowan … This is about a year old but the first I’ve seen of an interesting car launch promo – tied in with a music video – that uses almost 42,000 hand-applied programmable LEDs to light up a Lexus luxury sedan. Three distinct modes, says a press release, allow the LIT IS …
16:9 Projects Podcast: 127 Feet Of Amazing Experiential LED At Chicago’s 150 N. Riverside December 15, 2017 by Danica Trapara Chicago’s 150 Media Stream is a 127-foot long and 19-foot high permanent installation in the lobby of the new 150 North Riverside office building. It is comprised of 89 individual vertical LED displays or ‘blades’ creating a canvas of over 3,000 square feet. The content is driven by an ‘intelligent content library’ that constantly changes …
Delta Displays Touts Series Of Standardized 16:9 LED Set-Ups December 12, 2017 by Super User Fine pitch LED displays tend to be fitted to the necessary display area – like a lobby or feature wall area that is some sort of rectangle. They’re sold by modules and all those modules tile together to create the necessary shape. So it’s interesting to see a company marketing a solution that is based …
That Giant Coca-Cola Board In Times Square Has Stopped Shape-Shifting December 7, 2017 by Super User My New York out of home industry friend spent about 15 minutes today in Times Square watching the monster 3D robotic Coca-Cola billboard, and reported back that it is still big, but it’s not robotic at all at the moment. The whole time he watched, no movements on the board. One LED module was out, …
Hospital Deep In Hot, Bone-Dry Mojave Desert Gets Waterfall Feature, Via LEDs December 7, 2017 by Super User A U.S. Army Medical Command facility built a waterfall in the Mojave Desert to create a soothing feature in the building’s lobby – but used LED displays instead of real water. The Weed Army Community Hospital at Fort Irwin, California – located in an area that gets insanely hot through part of year – worked …
Media Studies College Makes Giant Trapezoidal LED Display Lobby Centerpiece December 6, 2017 by Super User This is the lobby of the new home for the Creative Media Industries Institute (CMII) on the campus of Georgia State University, with the focal point a 34-foot wide trapezoidal curved LED display. The downtown Atlanta building is home to the university’s digital media and film industries studies. “Our new Creative Media Industries Institute building …
