Daktronics CEO Says Company Endured Perfect Storm Last Two Years, But Business Skies Seem To Now Be Clearing December 12, 2022 by Dave Haynes The CEO of Daktronics says a “perfect storm” of COVID-era lockdowns and shuttered economies, followed rapidly by huge supply chain issues, has forced the LED manufacturer to rethink operations and find ways to improve cash flow. The South Dakota company is one of the most well-established manufacturers in LED displays and one of few not …
Business Viability Of LED Display Manufacturer Daktronics A “Going Concern” December 12, 2022 by Dave Haynes One of the most established and successful names in the LED display business is facing serious financial issues, with South Dakota-based Daktronics filing paperwork with the SEC that says its business viability is a going concern. That “going concern” is raised when a company’s continuing ability to keep the lights on and the production line …
Anamorphic Ad Spot At Danish Mall Shows Possibilities And Limitations of 3D Creative December 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a great example of well-executed anamorphic illusion creative that shows what’s possible, but at the same time demonstrates the limitations of these digital illusions. It’s on a big DOOH LED display in the center court of a shopping mall in Copenhagen, Denmark – a spot for a Danish broadcaster’s “popular Christmas calendar ‘Tinka …
A Giant Immersive Cylindrical LED Video Wall Lights Up At Moroccan University December 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a vast, custom-curved LED video wall in a main auditorium at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (known as UM6P), located near Marrakech, Morocco – billed as the largest immersive video wall in North Africa. It measures 288 feet wide by nine feet high, and has a radius of 313.46 degrees. The display uses Samsung …
Sharp NEC Adds Public-Ready COB Fine Pitch LEDs To Line-up December 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes Sharp NEC Display Solutions has added a new series a fine-pitch indoor LED displays that make an important nod to challenges of very large, very expensive video walls around people and their things. The new NEC FC Series uses Chip On Board, also called flip chip, LED technology that offers greater anti-collision, anti-electrostatic, anti-water drop, …
Blending LED Walls Into Public Spaces With Intentional Content Design December 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes GUEST POST: JAKE BERG, RENDER IMPACT What first comes to mind when you think of an LED screen? Is it a simple digital sign used to convey an advertising message, or is it a completely customizable blank canvas with endless opportunities to create remarkable viewing experiences? Hopefully the latter, as LED experiences have evolved significantly, …
48-Foot Wide Fine Pitch LED Wall Tracks Oil And Gas Ops In Kazakhstan December 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes When fine pitch LED video walls first started being marketed by pro AV companies, control room displays were touted as an obvious application – with the qualifiers that the pitches probably had to tighten and costs have to lower significantly before there were going to be many buyers. Both those issues have been resolved, with …
LED Mainstreamed: Lux Hollywood Apartment Block’s Unique 61-foot-wide LED Wall Greets Tenants, Visitors November 29, 2022 by Dave Haynes LED video walls have been talked up for the last three or four years as a new tool to attract and retain tenants in commercial office towers, by using a big digital canvas and (ideally) custom creative to drive experience and reinforce a brand. Now, as costs have come down and awareness has gone up, …
Museum Down Under Uses In-Glass LED To Mark, Promote Sharks Exhibit November 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a nice application of in-glass LED, marking and promoting a short-term exhibition about Sharks at the Australian Museum in Sydney. The instal was put together by Aussie solutions provider Lymlive, and was lit up in September. Lymlive installed a 9 meter wide by 3 meter tall (roughly 30′ by 10′ for the metric-impaired) …
Muxwave Shows A Super-Thin Transparent LED Display You Really Could Call A Screen November 23, 2022 by Dave Haynes Way, way in a back corner of the LDI live events technology show – which was running at the same time as DSE last week in Las Vegas – a Shenzhen company called Muxwave was showcasing what it called a transparent LED video wall product. It wasn’t transparent, but it was at least as transparent …
