LED Mainstreamed: A Retail POP Fixture On A Pallet, With A Display On Its Front Face April 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes I have seen merchandising tables in big box environments like Best Buy and even Costco that have LED displays below the counter, so to speak, to draw attention and market product – but in another sign of this stuff being mainstreamed, it’s now being used for temporary POP displays on pallets that get plopped in …
Phish’s Four-Night Sphere Run Takes Predictably Different Visual Approach From U2 April 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes On Sunday night, the American rock band Phish finished the last of a four-night weekend run at Sphere in Las Vegas – the second touring act to put on performances that use the giant 16K curved screen as a backdrop. The freeform music of Phish is wildly different from Ireland’s U2, and that was reflected …
Future Tech: Researchers Makes LED Displays Inherently Interactive, And Solar Collectors April 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes As spotted in Display Daily, which is paywalled. One of the minor knocks against using LED display for video walls was how they did not support touchscreen interactivity, because the displays with micro-soldered light emitters were fragile and really not meant to be touched. It didn’t matter much because LED video walls didn’t tend to …
Oooops! – German Football Team’s Perimeter LED Displays Trashed As Fans Invade Pitch After Historic Win April 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip Craig Denholm for posting about this on Linkedin … LED ribbon displays – more formally known, I think, as perimeter screens – are common along the sidelines of professional football (soccer) playing surfaces around the globe. They are, by necessity, ruggedized to deal with balls being kicked at them, and players taking out …
Big Multimedia Cylinder Display Previewed For Houston Airport’s New Int’l Terminal April 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes When I spoke with Thibaut Duverneix of the Montreal creative studio Gentilhomme on a recent podcast, he alluded to work that was underway for a big multimedia display piece at the main airport in Houston, Texas. It won’t be live until some time in 2025, but Gentilhomme presumably has the OK from the airport to …
What If A Big Building’s Construction Wrap Or Hoarding Was A Display? April 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes The German company LightnTec has been steadily refining its unique LED display technology, which I’d inelegantly describe as a rugged tarpaulin that can double as a dynamic display. The Karlsruhe company has been at it for a few years now, and as happens with display tech, their products over time have become lighter, brighter, thinner …
Boring But Good: Denver’s Busy Airport Uses LED Header Banner At New TSA Checkpoint April 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Denver International Airport recently opened a new 17-lane TSA security checkpoint on the terminal’s northwest end of Level 6, part of a $2.1B upgrade project at what is the third busiest airport in the US. The engineering and design firm Stantec is doing a big list of work at the airport, and one component is …
Peerless-AV Adds One Display, One Mount Capability To Its “Seamless” LED Mounting System April 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes The specialty display and display infrastructure manufacturer Peerless-AV has debuted a new twist on its “SEAMLESS” universal LED mounting System – what the Chicago-area company says is an industry-first “one display, one mount” solution. This is not an area I know all that well, so let’s go with this helpful, chest-beating free description found on …
With Everyone Having Fine Pixel Pitch LED, Marketing Shifting To Other Specs April 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes One of the interesting things that struck me as I wandered the endless corridors of the LED display part of ISE a couple of months back was how pixel pitch was not necessarily highlighted as the big selling point of manufacturers. I walked around one top 10 manufacturer’s stand and realized, they’re not even noting …
Neoti At NAB Touting What It Calls First LED Display To Be PANTONE Validated April 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes Indiana-based display manufacturer Neoti is at the big National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas this week showing off what it says the first direct view LED display to get officially validated for supporting PANTONE colors and skin tones. The Bluffton, IN company says PANTONE’s approval and licensing applies to its new UHD …
