LCD Flat Panel Production Starting To Make Shift From China To India: DSCC Prediction January 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes The display-focused research and consulting firm DSCC has an interesting (albeit nerdy) set of predictions up about what might happen in the next 12 months with the LCD, OLED and LED display businesses. I won’t go through them all, as you can read yourself (I think you might have to register). But here are two …
Mormon Church Books Domination Campaign Across 27 Times Square LED Screens December 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes Brands sometime book domination campaigns that sync up multiple LED spectacular displays in New York’s Times Square, and there are periodic late evening takeovers for public digital art on those screens, but here is something quite different: a Christmas-themed message across 27 displays – planned, booked and delivered by the Mormon church. The Church …
New Saudi Gov’t Back Giga Project Involves E-Sports Arena With Massive 3,600 Sq. Meter Chandelier-Like LED Screen December 21, 2023 by Dave Haynes Given the extraordinary cost and the need in much of the world to clear planning hurdles and local objects about light pollution and energy usage, it’s widely thought the next variation on the Las Vegas Sphere might rise up in a money-is-no-object place like Dubai or Saudi Arabia. And now there is word of a …
Interesting Cutaway View Of Sphere Interior … December 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes Came across this online – an interesting cutaway view of the Sphere in Vegas, showing the exoskeleton and how the seating and common areas are set up. There have been countless external photos, as well as shots of the U2 concert and the nature film, but not many of the common areas inside. There’s a …
NYC’s 5th Ave Snowflake Gets Big Digital Upgrade From i5LED December 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes Most of the LED display project news I see out of New York City involves either big outdoor displays in Times Square or big indoor video walls in flagship retail, but here’s a very different project supplied, in part, by an LED display firm – a giant Christmas snowflake suspended over Fifth Avenue. The Fifth …
1,100 Custom LED Light Strips Drive Experiential Visuals At Bangalore’s Main Airport December 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes Wide LED walls over the entry to the big security screening areas of new or modernized airport terminals are almost becoming something of a standard – with great examples from Singapore to Newark, NJ – but I haven’t seen one like this variation in Bangalore, India. It involves almost 1,100 custom LED light strips, using …
Ross Video Exits LED Display Business, Just Two Years After Acquiring D3LED December 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes In a move perhaps best described as curious (or maybe inevitable), Ross Video has announced it is getting out of the LED display business, two years after acquiring D3LED and getting squarely in that business. The Ottawa, Canada pro AV tech firm announced its plans Thursday to “exit the LED display business and is now …
ISE Venue’s Main Entry Windows Getting Vast Transparent LED Retrofit In Time For 2024 Show December 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes The venue that is now home to the big pro AV trade show Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) is getting what would be one of the largest operating installations of that wafer-thin, perforated foil-like LED display tech on the curtain wall windows of the main entrance. The Welcome Screen at the South Access of Fira de …
Huge Digital Facade Draws Eyes To Canadian Outerwear Brand Arc’teryx’s Toronto Flagship December 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a very impressive digital facade for the Canadian outerwear brand Arc’teryx, which has a flagship store in Toronto’s high-end Yorkdale Mall. I’ve seen lots of digital facades popping up in retail as LED has, in tandem, become less costly and more durable. But I’ve not seen one done at this kind of scale …
The LED Studio Sponsors Women’s Rugby Team December 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes Another hat tip today – to Swindon, UK-based The LED Studio, which is now a main sponsor for the “scrum-tastic” Newcastle University Women’s Rugby Football Club, with its logo on the uniform strip. The company – which manufactures and markets LED video wall product – has a direct link to high-level rugby in that country …
