That Big LED With Swing-in Doors For A Live Stage Is Now Running In Times Square July 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes That giant LED display in Times Square, with LED-clad doors that swing open to reveal a live performance stage, is now operational. The musician Post Malone did a surprise dinner-hour concert on the stage Tuesday, the live video of his performance relayed in real-time on the larger screen that surrounds the stage opening. The display …
Brussels Airport Transitions FIDS Video Walls From LCD To Fine Pitch LED July 14, 2023 by Dave Haynes It was always just going to be a matter of time when fine pitch LED costs would reduce to a point that they would fully supplant LCD-based video walls, and we appear to be there even with pedestrian use-cases like FIDS displays at airports. The airport in Brussels, Belgium has flight information (FIDS) videowalls that …
DSSE: Major Display Vendors Relate Shifts On Software, Manufacturing July 13, 2023 by Dave Haynes Last week’s excellent Digital Signage Summit Europe in Munich presented a problem of having to decide between which of two concurrent sessions to sit in on, and I missed what looks – in hindsight – like a good one on the display market. Fortunately, Sixteen:Nine’s content partners at invidis – which also presents the DSSE conference …
Nanolumens Develops Pre-Kitted LED Display Solutions Aimed At Mass Transport Environments July 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes Atlanta LED display manufacturer Nanolumens has taken the interesting step of developing a series of pre-kitted display solutions for the airport and transportation hubs that are delivering a lot of business for them, operating with the idea of removing complexity both in selling and deploying. The move is in line with a much broader trend …
Miracle Mile Mall In Vegas Starts Lighting New Exterior LED Displays July 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Miracle Mile Shops mall that’s part of the Planet Hollywood resort in Las Vegas is nearing the end of a much, much needed facelift – and a big visual feature is new LED displays on the outside, facing the Strip. This is a view of the south entrance, which has added a big SNA …
That Giant Las Vegas LED Sphere Lights Up For First Time: Pix And Video July 7, 2023 by Brad Koerner Guest Post: Brad Koerner On July 4th, the massive video screen on the exterior sphere of the MSG Las Vegas Sphere (or see the sphere’s Wikipedia page) was activated for the first time. Here’s some essential info from Wikipedia: Upon its completion, the Sphere will be 366 feet (112 m) high and 516 feet (157 m) wide at its …
GM China HQ Uses Big Absen LED Walls To Greet, Inform Staff And Visitors June 29, 2023 by Dave Haynes It’s kind of amusing to see multi-zone layouts still popping up on digital signage displays, especially when the display canvas is a premium fine-pitch LED video wall in a corporate lobby. At least there’s no ticker on this big, curving LED set up in the street-level lobby of the Chinese headquarters for General Motors. I’d …
Madrid Nightclub’s Central Feature Is Vast Experiential Dome Built With Conical LED Rings June 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes I go to nightclubs exactly never, so I am something far less than well-informed about the tech being used in these venues. But I am going to assume the breadth of AV technology put in place for a new club in Madrid is, at minimum, on the impressive and ambitious side. This is Fitz, a …
ClearLED Seeing Interest, Demand For Its Micro Mesh LED Displays From Designed Space Community June 22, 2023 by Dave Haynes There was a lot of fantastic display technology on show last week at InfoComm in Orlando, but the dozens of LED manufacturers who were there had and have a running challenge of it all looking pretty much the same. A big microLED video wall looks amazing. But so does a 0.95mm LED wall using Chip …
Liquid Crystal Supplier Confirms Large-Format LCDs Are A Sunset Technology June 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes One of the key suppliers of liquid crystal technology for flat panel display makers has pretty much confirmed what we all sort of know – that LCDs are a sunset technology and various flavours of LED and OLED are gradually taking over, first with TVs. The tech publication Tom’s Guide has a post up with …
