Tech Firm’s NYC Offices Use LED Video Walls To Energize Elevator Wait Lobbies May 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes Readers may have noticed how the odd post about a corporate project goes up … and then disappears – in pretty much every case because the vendor didn’t secure any or all of the permissions needed to use the client name and images in press material. I had one of those earlier in the week. …
Samsung’s The Wall Set Up As Virtual Production Set For Korean Film & TV Projects May 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes Samsung has announced what would have to be one of the largest footprint installations to date of its microLED-ish premium display product, The Wall – a massive virtual production stage in South Korea. The set-up was done “in collaboration” with the Korean entertainment company CJ ENM. The use of collaboration and partnership pretty loudly suggests …
Industry Vet Zoll Hopes To Demystify Jargon-Filled LED Display Biz In InfoComm Talk May 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes If you are just starting to look into direct view LED as a display option, and running into a snowmageddon-level blizzard of unfamiliar terms and acronyms, a talk industry veteran Larry Zoll is doing at InfoComm in a couple of weeks might save you some precious brain cells. Zoll’s June 8th talk is called: Demystifying …
Auto Museum Fires Up Big Curved LEDs To Greet, Inform Visitors May 26, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is the brand new Savoy Automobile Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, which is using a lot of LED and a little LCD to welcome, guide, entertain and inform visitors who come to see everything from vintage station wagons to retired race cars. The 65,000 sq. ft. facility northwest of Atlanta has a series of LG …
Taiwan’s PanelSemi Marketing Super-Light, Super-Skinny Flexible Active Matrix Display Made To Size Using 9-Inch Tiles May 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes I am not 100% sure what this is, but 99% sure it’s interesting – a very large, very light and super-skinny display that uses active matrix LCD technology instead of OLED. The Taiwanese firm PanelSemi is marketing an active matrix display using mini LED, that is flexible enough to be rolled up and light enough …
Beauty Brand’s Uses Planetary Inspiration For Digital Around Terrific Madrid Flagship May 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Barcelona creative technology shop Instronic does super-nice work, and one of the things I particularly like about the company is the amount of detail it puts into explaining the creative thinking and outputs for its higher profile projects. The company has a deeply detailed, very visual page up online explaining what was done, how …
Almost 3,300 LED Cabinets Create Huge Virtual Film Production Set In Vancouver May 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes When fine pitch LED video walls came along it seemed like the primary use cases were going to be things like advertising, designed spaces, sports books in casinos, entertainment venues and control rooms. But some of the biggest jobs these days for fine pitch LED are as virtual production sets for TV and film. Consider …
New Version Of Hardened LED Displays Touted As Improving Visuals By Only Coating The LED Lights May 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes It has been a few years now since the first LED modules with hardened coatings came on the market – with the category taking on the general term Glue On Board (or GOB). Numerous manufacturers now have versions of roughly the same thing – modules coated and encapsulated in an epoxy coating that protects the …
Pandemic Was, Weirdly, Best Of Times For Display Industry, While Recovery Is Worst Of Times: DSCC May 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes The digital display industry finds itself in this weird circumstance, says supply chain analyst Ross Young, in which the 2020-2021 pandemic period was actually pretty good, and now, as the recovery ramps up and inflation is rising, prices are down and the outlook is shaky. Display Supply Chain Consulting’s Young made that observation in a …
SID Says Display Week Saw Attendance Back At Pre-Pandemic Levels May 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes Photo credit: SimBeyond Hardcore pro display people would have been a bit torn last week, having to focus physically or online to what was happening and on show at a pair of industry trade shows and conferences nine time zones apart. While Integrated Systems Europe was on in Barcelona, Spain, the Society for Information Display’s …
