Pavilion In Chinese Mega-City Park Animates Its Front With LED-Embedded Glass Curtain Wall June 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a nice use of LED embedded in building glass at some sort of pavilion building in a massive city park in Chengdu, a mega-city in the Sichuan province of China. The whole front face of the building is curtain wall glass, made up of some 100 glass panels, with 14 different sizes. The …
Giant Wraparound LED Board Switched On In Downtown LA’s Entertainment District June 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes That big wraparound LED board that was announced earlier in the year for a hotel complex in the entertainment district of downtown LA has now been switched on – a 15,000 sq. ft. 8mm display across from the convention center and the sports venue now called the Crypto.com Arena. The DOOH ad display is at …
UK’s The LED Studio Marketing 55-Inch LED Cabinets As Direct Replacements For Same-Sized LCDs June 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes I was way out of trade show routine last week at InfoComm, and I realized pretty quickly that while coming in early was smart in terms of getting settled, leaving early was stupid. I shoulda budgeted three days around the show floor and stayed for Friday, given all the impromptu chats on the exhibit hall …
Europe’s Largest LED Ceiling To Light Up Manchester’s Iconic Printworks Venue June 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes An old newspaper building block in Manchester, UK that was re-imagined as a multi-tenant entertainment venue is getting an upgrade with what will be the largest LED ceiling in Europe. The entire common space ceiling inside of Printworks will be 900 sq. meters of ceiling-suspended LED – a lightweight, fire-rated set of modules/cabinets provided by …
Northwestern’s Qatari Campus Includes Giant LED Wall In Atrium Lobby June 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes The video is very curious and the details limited, but here’s a look nonetheless at an ambitious, big-dollar video wall project at the Qatari outpost of Chicago’s much respected Northwestern University. It is a big display in an atrium that is about three storeys tall and 92 sq. meters in total visual footprint – done …
Public Utility Switches On A 60-Meter-Wide Fine Pitch LED Control Room Wall June 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes Behold what may well be the biggest damn video wall in Canada – a 60-meter-wide by 2.7 meter tall beast in the control room of a public utility company. I kinda stumbled across this on the website of Engineering Harmonics, a Toronto-based consulting and integration firm. It is a 1.2mm pitch microLED-ish wall that the …
InfoComm Day 1: Busy-ish, Not Much Truly New, But Awesome To Be Back June 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes Day One of the exhibit hall for Infocomm 2022 is behind me, and I’m quickly knocking out a quick impressions post before I head out in search of beer and food. OK, I found beer in my hotel room fridge, but the point holds … The show looks pretty busy, and overall looks good and …
NBA’s LA Clippers Adding Vast Halo LED Display Above New Home Arena Floor June 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes The folks at the Daktronics booth at InfoComm will have some spring in their steps this morning, as the show opens and word spreads of the company winning another massive deal for another massive LED board for a sports venue. The South Dakota manufacturer has also announced that it has crossed $800 million in orders …
It’s Now Clear Big Digital Displays Are Fundamental To How Las Vegas Creates Wow Factor June 6, 2022 by Dave Haynes In late and up early in Las Vegas, as I poke around and get myself sorted for being at InfoComm this week. The first thing I learned in coming here is that after 28 months of not doing it, I don’t miss the process/rigmarole of commercial air travel. At all. The second thing I have …
Dynamic LED Floors Now Rugged Enough To Use As Elite-Level Basketball Courts May 31, 2022 by Dave Haynes The opening and closing ceremonies earlier this year of the Beijing Olympics included the use of an LED floor system that turned the stadium surface into an active canvas, without needing to wrestle with the brightness and shadow challenges presented by projectors. It was reasonable to think the use of the technology was a hint …
