LED Tower And Walls Create Data Sculpture Maze In Taipei March 16, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is pretty wild – the world’s first outdoor immersive installation done as a maze. The walls are LED panels, covering 1,110 sq. meters at a site near the iconic Taipei 101 in Taiwan’s main city. The set-up included a four-storey high LED monolith tower, and a series of other walls that create the maze, …
LianTronics Showcases Moveable LED For Meeting Room Divider Walls March 16, 2023 by Dave Haynes Chinese LED display manufacturer LianTronics is showcasing an interesting take on building big displays into meetings and events facilities that have moveable walls – the kind of thing that allows a wall to be moved away to make two rooms into one larger one. “These ultra-thin LED walls were designed to blend with the door,” …
LG Marketing Big Outdoor LED Displays For Cruise Ships March 16, 2023 by Dave Haynes LG has started marketing a new outdoor direct-view LED display series expressly designed for the cruise ship market, with units that are built to survive whatever weather and operating conditions the crew might encounter. The GNEB series has marine-grade powder and conformal (circuitry) coatings, and the front and rear of the displays are IP67-certified. The …
First Waterfalls, Then Aquariums, And Now There Are Digital Campfires March 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes Display technology has been set up to emulate all kinds of things – from waterfalls to virtual ceilings and digital chandeliers – but I think this is the first time I have seen screens clustered together to emulate a campfire. It is in the Frankfurt flagship of the outdoor’s-focused retailer Jack Wolfskin, a German brand …
Endangered Kelp Forests Get Replicated On Big SFO LED Display March 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes Virtual aquariums have been used before for large-scale LED video walls, as have virtual waterfalls, but a new digital piece running in one of Salesforce’s office towers in San Francisco relates to a cause. The CRM giant is running a public art video piece on the big, 90-degree corner SNA Displays LED in the Salesforce …
Futuresource’s ISE Wrap-Up: Price Erosion Continuing In LED; LCD Use Range Narrowing March 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes The UK-based research and consulting firm Futuresource sent a pile of people – 22 market analysts – to Integrated Systems Europe in Barcelona, to walk the halls, talk to vendors and sit in on presentations. That investment and effort builds up knowledge and helps shape future reports, but the company very helpfully puts out a …
LED Display Maker Watchfire Bulks Up Sports Capabilities Via Spectrum Scoreboards Acquisition March 13, 2023 by Dave Haynes LED display manufacturer Watchfire has bulked up its capabilities in the live sports market via the acquisition of Spectrum Scoreboards, giving Watchfire what it describes as “a complete line of fixed-digital sports scoreboards and timing displays.” Funded by private equity owners H.I.G. Capital, the purchase of Spectrum assets gets Watchfire one of the largest privately-owned …
Pittsburgh’s NHL Arena Owners OK $30M In Upgrades, Include New LED March 9, 2023 by Dave Haynes It looks the LED display deal is already locked up, but flat panel display and software firms maybe – repeat maybe – still have a sniff at some of the $30 million just approved for upgrades to PPG Paints Arena, home of the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins. Sports Business Journal reports that the authority that owns …
New Daktronics Financials Suggest Business Viability Issue In Rear-View Mirror March 9, 2023 by Dave Haynes LED display manufacturer Daktronics appears to have got past supply chain and cash flow challenges that forced the company late last year to note in SEC filings that its business viability was in question. The SEC filings in December caused shares on the NASDAQ to plummet, and forced the company to delay its earnings release. …
180-Foot Three-Sided LED Marquee About To Officially Go Live On LV Strip March 9, 2023 by Dave Haynes When I was last in Las Vegas and fighting my way along the Strip’s sidewalks, one of the many obstacles I had to navigate (along with comic book superheroes and minimally-clad showgirls risking hypothermia) was construction hoarding at the Flamingo intersection, in front of what used to be called Bally’s and across from the Bellagio …
