Ikea Opens Screen-Filled City Store On London’s Busiest High Street May 2, 2025 by Dave Haynes While London’s Oxford Street seems mostly to cater to tourists, based on all the candy and cheap souvenir shops, the UK capital’s busiest retail high street continues to add more reasons for digital signage nerds to visit. There is Outernet London at one end, by the Tottenham Court Road Underground station. There is the Flannels …
Tariffs Mean No End Of Uncertainty These Days For LED Display Companies April 29, 2025 by Dave Haynes I’ve spoken to or corresponded with numerous display manufacturers in recent days to get a sense of how they are trying to navigate the pinballing tariffs situation, and the words that best describe their viewpoints are perplexed, nervous and hopeful – the latter related to a sense that this will all calm down, maybe even …
This Big LED Billboard Goes Where Its Needed – Towed By Chopper April 28, 2025 by Dave Haynes Hat top Nick Coston, who had this on his Substack page … This hits me as slightly nuts, but a new digital OOH media play is using a helicopter to lift and tow around, by wire, a big, rigid two-sided LED display that is readily visible to people on the ground. This is a little …
SF Giant’s Jumbo Coke Bottle In Ballpark Outfield Adds LED Display To Animate Label April 25, 2025 by Dave Haynes Mitsubishi used to be one of the big dogs in the North American outdoor LED display business, but the flood of competition that started coming into the market by the mid to late 2010s has lessened its prominence. However, it is still out there and still winning some high-profile projects for its Diamond Vision displays. …
In Dubai, A 500-Meter LED Wall Takes Place Of Construction Hoardings And Some “Pardon Our Dust!” Signs April 25, 2025 by Dave Haynes Things are done differently in budget-indifferent places like Dubai. So it is interesting, but not all that surprising, that the communications solution to turning off the Las Vegas Bellagio-style fountains that front the Dubai Mall and Burj Khalifa is not plywood hoardings and a Pardon Our Dust sign, but a 500 meter long LED screen …
German Apparel Retail Fills Flagship Store Window With Transparent LED April 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes While there are lots of vendors now making or reselling someone else’s near-transparent LED products, they’ve seemingly been more evident at trade shows than out in the real world. However, that also used to be the case with conventional direct view LED displays, which are now EVERYWHERE. So it is probably more a function of …
Impressions From InfoComm China 2025 – AI Stitched Into Many Aspects Of LED Display Tech April 23, 2025 by Florian Rotberg I was chatting this morning with Florian Rotberg of Sixteen:Nine content partner invidis, who who was in Beijing last week for InfoComm China, a sister show to InfoComm (US) and ISE in Barcelona. It runs every April and attracts the same kind of vendors and attendees seen at the related shows. What was interesting was …
Research: OLED Display Sales Have Surged (Pre-Tariffs), But MiniLED-Lit LCD Sales Even Hotter April 11, 2025 by Dave Haynes Setting aside tariffs (somehow), here’s a look at the state of OLED TV shipments pre-tariffs chaos from the research firm Omdia – which suggests consumers are increasingly big on the skinny and vivid flat panels. The company’s latest monthly TV shipment tracking data shows 19.2% year-on-year growth in global OLED shipments, as of February 2025. …
Megapixel Co-Founder Keith Harrison Has Passed Away April 9, 2025 by Dave Haynes Really unfortunate news out of the Los Angeles area – with word that a much respected LED pioneer has passed away. Keith Harrison was a co-founder and the COO of Megapixel, most known for its video wall processing technology. He was also, with co-founder Jeremey Hochman, behind the development and launch of the super-sleek, architecture-focused …
LED Mainstreamed: Madrid Spin Class Studio Use One Big Video Wall To Drive Cycling Experience April 8, 2025 by Dave Haynes In yet another example of LED being mainstreamed, here’s a fitness facility with a spin bike room that has a very sizeable fine pitch LED video wall – showing a mildly immersive cycling route as video. It is at Abada Club in Madrid, described on Linkedin as “a space where innovation and design merge to …
