Tampa’s Airport Has Giant LED FIDS Display At Its Cell Phone Waiting Lot February 27, 2025 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Watch: I Talk Video Wall Infrastructure With Peerless-AV. You’ll Learn Stuff! February 18, 2025 by Dave Haynes I sat in on a half-hour “AV ON AIR” video podcast panel during ISE, hosted and moderated by well-known AV guy Chris Neto, and joined by Brian McClimans and Nick Belcore, equally well-known execs with Chicago-based Peerless-AV. The premise was about the Sixteen:Nine Future Displays report, which was sponsored in part by Peerless-AV. The video …
STRATACACHE Makes Another EU Acquisition – Building Out Pharmacy Retail Media Tech Side With SNED February 18, 2025 by Dave Haynes STRATACACHE, arguably the biggest company in digital signage if you set aside display manufacturers and AV/IT integrators, continues to build its footprint and solution stack in Europe – with the latest move the acquisition of a French company that does screens in pharmacies. Founded in 2012, SNED is described as an LED solutions specialist in …
UK’s LED Studio Gets Mainland Europe Footprint By Acquiring Germany’s Viavisual February 18, 2025 by Dave Haynes LED Studio has been doing most of its trade in its home country, the UK, and in the United States, but it now has a footprint into central Europe through the acquisition of a German firm, Viavisual. The specialist for LED solutions has its headquarters in Freiburg, and will now be the DACH region branch of LED …
