LED Giant Daktronics Reaches Settlement with Activist Investor After Years of Conflict March 5, 2025 by Super User The executive and board of big US LED display manufacturer Daktronics seem to finally have a protracted battle with an activist investor resolved, with news that a “cooperation agreement” has been reached with Alta Fox Capital Management, ending a three-year dispute that went all the way to litigation and public demands. The dispute began in …
QST LED Starts Marketing LED-Faced Portable Podium For Live Events, Retail March 4, 2025 by Super User The LA-based LED display company QST LED has started marketing and shipping an interesting digitally-wrapped podium meant for things like live events, retail demos and shows. The units are designed as plug and play, have wheels, and can be moved around to different events in a hard-core rollaway case – the sort of thing roadies …
New London Office Complex Includes Custom LED Arches On Protected, Georgian-era Facade February 28, 2025 by Super User Hat tip invidis for noting this … A new high-rise office development in London’s financial district looks like a lot of sleek, modern skyscraper developments from the outside, but the complex – which opened in 2024 – incorporates a listed (protected) building in its footprint, and has a central square area that mashes up custom …
Tampa’s Airport Has Giant LED FIDS Display At Its Cell Phone Waiting Lot February 27, 2025 by Super User The guy who has the airports portfolio for Atlanta LED display manufacturer Nanolumens never seems to stop traveling, and part of his schtick on Linkedin is to take photos or quick videos showing displays in situ in these environments – most or all of it presumably being product from his company. Most of the signs …
Video: CECOCECO Demos Its LED-driven Dynamic Wall Covering For UK Workspace Designers February 27, 2025 by Super User It is VERY hard to define clear differences between the great majority of direct view LED manufacturers on the market unless you get into the technical weeds or look at some base things like price, main location, and the ability to servicer and support a market like North America or EMEA. Which is why I’ve …
German Company’s Gamified LED Walls Designed To Take Steady Impacts Of Kicked Soccer Balls February 26, 2025 by Super User It doesn’t seem that long ago that LED video walls often had the sort of line-up barriers you see at airports set up in front of them, to keep people from getting too near the displays, because the little LED light packages were just soldered in place and very easily damaged. Fast forward to today, …
The Futuresource ISE Recap Is Out; Free And Worth The Download, But Here’s The LED Stuff … February 26, 2025 by Super User UK-based research and analysis firm Futuresource Consulting had 16 people on the ground at ISE in Barcelona earlier this month, and the team has once again generated a post-show report that digs quite deep into what was on the floor, sorted by categories and including stuff you might not care that much about, like audio. …
Omdia’s ISE 2025 Pro Display Recap Suggests, Among Many Things, The Race To Finest LED Pixel Pitch Has Stalled February 24, 2025 by Super User The research firm Omdia has pushed out a recap of the pro display side of ISE 2025, which was run earlier this month in Barcelona. The company, which like other credible research firms sends analysts around the halls to meet with manufacturers, offers up the recap as a free read, but you have to register. …
Daktronics Says New Billboard Line Reduces Power Needs By As Much As 20% February 24, 2025 by Super User Sustainability is a much bigger issue for digital signage and DOOH network operators in Europe than it is across the water, especially in the U.S. But it is not an entirely foreign concept, though reducing energy footprints may have more to do with the bottom line than the fate of the planet. South Dakota manufacturer Daktronics, …
Future Displays Now Has Some 1,400 Downloads & Views. It’s Still Available, Still Free! February 18, 2025 by Super User It has been a couple of weeks since I made any big reference to the Future Displays report, so I wanted to re-up word that it is still out there and still a free download. I met some folks at ISE who REALLY know their display tech, and was both gratified and relieved that they …
