LG’s New North America HQ Near NYC Features 100s Of Digital Signs And Pro Displays August 25, 2023 by Super User LG has pushed put PR about its new North American headquarters in a wooded area along the Hudson River, in Englewood Cliffs, NJ and in the immediate orbit of New York City. Korean rival Samsung also has its US head office in New Jersey and near the Big Apple. They are about 10 minutes apart …
LED Displays Carefully Integrated Into Look Of Parisian Art Deco Moviehouse August 24, 2023 by Super User Here’s a nice example of architects and digital technologists collaborating to carefully introduce LED screens into the design and look of a historic building – in this case an almost century-old moviehouse in Paris. The 90th anniversary of the Grand Rex cinema involved a modernization of the art deco building, including its iconic facade. Solutions …
Videos: Samsung, LG Booth Tours From Last Week’s K-Display Exhibition August 22, 2023 by Super User I referenced the recent K-Display exhibition in Seoul and the product demos of the two biggest display manufacturers in Korea – Samsung and LG. The two companies have since put out round-up videos that show their stands at the event, and focus on a range of different products.A lot of the Samsung video (below) is …
London Movie Multiplex Uses Curved LED Ribbon For Huge Dynamic Menu Display August 18, 2023 by Super User The scale of multi-screen cinema lobbies and limited concession options make it possible to play with the shape, dimensions and creative for menu displays – like at this moviehouse at the big Bluewater shopping centre on the eastern outskirts of metro London. The Showcase Bluewater cinema now has a 12-metre wide LED ribbon display installed …
Dutch Cities Try Sensor-Triggered “Too Loud” Signs To Reduce Roadway Nuisance Noise August 17, 2023 by Super User The cities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam are testing a system that uses simple, low-rez digital signs along roadways to try to encourage motorists – particularly people with modified motorcycles – to reduce their noise impact. The program, running this summer, involves an audio sensor that triggers a message on the display that says, simply: “Too …
UK Companies Collaborate On Trial Of DOOH Screen Energy And Emissions Reporting August 17, 2023 by Super User A UK technology provider focused on the digital out-of-home industry has developed what’s touted as a first of its kind reporting tool to look at the environmental implications of public-facing ad screens, down to the ad campaign level. London-based UniLEDÂ collaborated with OPEN Media, Electric Glue and Starling Bank to trial its Screen Energy and Emissions …
University R&D Team Develops Process To Write LED Displays With A Ballpoint Pen August 15, 2023 by Super User A university research lab that had already come up with a way to inkjet print LEDs has now figured out how to write them onto surfaces like paper and fabrics using a ballpoint pen. The R&D comes out of the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, under a team led …
Sony Releases Dates For 2023-24 Pro Display Tech Road Show In US, Canada August 14, 2023 by Super User Sony has announced a series of dates running from the end of this month all way into February 2024 for road show stops by the company’s US pro display solutions team. The first stop in is Chicago, on Aug. 30th. The other dates: Minneapolis, MN – Tues, Sept. 12 New York, NY – Tues/Wed, Oct. …
LED Mainstreamed: A Fine-Pitch Video Wall At Airport Car Rental Counter August 14, 2023 by Super User Hat Tip Michael Warner of LG More evidence of LED being mainstreamed – an airport car rental counter with a 17-foot wide fine pitch LED video wall as a backdrop. It is a 17′ wide by 7′ high 2.5mm LG wall at DFW, for the German car rental operator SIXT. It uses Peerless AV mounting …
Oldie But Goodie: A Look At The Transparent LED Displays That Madrid Store’s Five-Level Atrium August 14, 2023 by Super User This is a now eight year old project that lined the atrium of a five-level Primark store in Madrid with mesh LED and populated the displays with purpose-designed and sync’d creative. It’s at Primark’s Gran Via location in the Spanish city – an historic 1920s department store re-made as one of the larger outlets of …
