Atlanta’s Giant 360 Halo LED Display Getting First Use This Weekend August 24, 2017 by Super User Pro football’s Atlanta Falcons play their first game at the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium, underneath what is billed as the largest non-transparent LED video display in the world The 360-degree halo display installed above the field is 58 ft tall by 1,075 ft long, and has more than 37 million LEDs. In square feet, it is 62,000 …
Clever Virtual Curtains Used Ahead Of Monster LED Board Reveal August 23, 2017 by Super User Maybe other companies have done this … dunno … but thought this is a pretty clever way to set up a reveal of a new LED spectacular sign. A monster wraparound LED board at 20 Times Square switches on this evening, and the manufacturer behind it, SNA Displays, has content that shows virtual curtains, which …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Florian Kall, LightnTec August 23, 2017 by Super User LED billboards and signs are now commonplace, and not just in Times Square and other landmark locations in big cities. But putting in LED has its challenges. Cost is the obvious one, but there are other issues, like the engineering needed to ensure a structure can handle all the weight involved with typical LED boards. …
Target’s Flagship Store Remodel Includes 71-Foot Fine Pitch LED Wall August 21, 2017 by Super User Stumbled across news of Target remodelling the two-level store at the base of its head office in downtown Minneapolis, which includes a curved 71-foot wide LED screen in the upper skyway level of the entry rotunda. No real details on the tech used, what it is for and any other good stuff. It LOOKS like …
Giant Wraparound 8mm LED Board Set To Officially Light Up At 20 Times Square August 21, 2017 by Super User This beast gets officially lit up Wednesday at 7 PM in Times Square in New York – a wraparound screen corner display that will be the largest in the world using exterior-grade 8mm pitch LED display blocks. The display at 20 Times Square has more than 17,000 square feet of LED. It’s been put in …
Projects: New Ford Dealer Opens With Digital Brand Halo August 18, 2017 by Super User This is a big “brand halo” LED sign suspended over the main showroom reception desk at the new LaFontaine Ford in Birch Run, Michigan – north of Flint. It’s a fine-pitch Panasonic LED that with its metal backing and struts weighs about 1,000 pounds. It is suspended using aircraft cable. The set-up was put in …
Projects: Transparent Mesh LED Fence Lines Front Of Dubai Mall Aquarium August 16, 2017 by Super User The aquarium attraction at the huge Dubai Mall recently lit up a massive OLED video wall – which looks amazing. A bit lost in the shuffle was a very large transparent LED mesh fence than runs along the base of the front of the big fish tank, below that huge OLED wall. Transparent mesh LED …
Branded Cities Acquires Clear Channel Outdoor Canada August 15, 2017 by Super User Phoenix-based Branded Cities Network has acquired Clear Channel Outdoor’s 50.001% interest in Clear Channel Outdoor Canada, making the company the 100% owner of the Canadian entity and adding to Branded Cities’ North American footprint. This is very familiar territory for Branded Cities’ Chairman and CEO Steve Ellman, who founded the Canadian company and had US-based …
Here’s Who’s All Behind Coca-Cola’s Giant New Robotic LED Board In NYC August 15, 2017 by Super User More information is dribbling out about that giant robotic 3D LED board Coca-Cola switched on last week in Times Square. The vendor list is long, and the one most familiar to the digital signage community is Convergent, which is listed as doing Technology Design and Implementation, Content Management and Monitoring Services. If I was expressly in …
Projects: Fighting Irish Add Giant LED Board, Fine Pitch LED To Renovated Stadium August 15, 2017 by Super User News of a stadium adding a big-ass LED screen in the stands is commonplace, but what’s interesting about an announcement involving the University of Notre Dame is ALL the fine pitch LED being added around the Fighting Irish’s historic football grounds. The university has put in a 54 by 96 foot 10mm board at one end …
