Shanghai Museum Uses Giant LED Wall To Add To City’s Iconic Riverfront Skyline October 6, 2021 by Super User A new museum that’s opened along Shanghai’s famed riverfront features a huge LED video wall that is easily seen by looking across Huangpu River from the Bund at the ultra-modern skyline. In a press release I would politely call confusing as hell, Chinese LED manufacturer LianTronics relates the story behind “Shanghai’s Largest Outdoor Small-pitch LED …
New Disney Epcot Restaurant Uses LED Video Walls To Create Out-Of-This-World Dining Experience October 1, 2021 by Super User Via CollectSpace There are a few bars and restaurants that have used video walls and displays designed into the decor to create the sense of being somewhere else, like on a train with the countryside digitally whizzing past. But the Disney people have really stepped up that idea with a new immersive restaurant that puts …
Unilumin’s USA Wing Brings On Former D3 Exec Barak As VP Strategic Markets September 24, 2021 by Super User The big Chinese LED companies that do a huge amount of work in their domestic markets aren’t always all that good on the sales and marketing side in North America, so it’s interesting to see Unilumin USA hiring on industry vet Jason Barak as its new VP of Strategic Markets. Barak has 25 years in …
LG Reseller Tests Transparent LED Window Film In Maine C-Store September 21, 2021 by Super User I haven’t seen that many examples yet of LG’s transparent LED window film in the wild, so I was intrigued to learn how a C-store was using the technology as a kind of digital window cling. The retail-focused technology integration firm Abierto Networks tested the display giant’s 14mm pixel pitch film was used at a …
Giant LED Board For Times Square Includes Doors That Swing Open And Shut (With Video) September 16, 2021 by Super User The TSX Broadway multi-use development now under construction in NYC’s Times Square district has, to no one’s surprise, a big LED display component on a corner that also wraps around a permanent outdoor stage for live performances. So if you already think Times Square is the world capital of sensory overload, just wait ’til you …
St. Louis Police Upgrade Real Time Crime Center With Giant LED Control Room Video Wall September 16, 2021 by Super User It was not very long ago, at all, that the idea of LED taking over the control room display market from LCD video walls and projection cubes was thought to be an eventual thing, but not until resolutions improved and costs dropped. Well, both have happened, and we’re now seeing projects light up in command …
Ross Video Acquires D3 LED September 14, 2021 by Super User Ottawa-based Ross Video has acquired direct view LED display manufacturer D3 LED, picking it up from a company called Southpaw Live that had merged a year ago with D3, which is based in the Sacramento area. D3 has been involved in premium LED displays for many, many years and its product is the feature wall …
Now There’s Buzz About Another CGI’d Store Facade … But This One COULD Be Done September 9, 2021 by Super User Oh geez … there’s another digital concept of a New York City retail store floating around social circles and being touted as real, when it’s just CGI. There’s been a huge amount of activity for a Zara store in SoHo that seemingly had an insane abstract digital store entry, prompting people to talk about it …
LED Display Sales Coming Back; 2021 Global Sales Forecast To Hit $6.5B: Futuresource September 9, 2021 by Super User Photo: Allsee Technologies Another research firm has pushed out data suggesting that while the worldwide LED industry took a big sales hit as the pandemic took hold in 2020, sales are bouncing back in a big way in 2021. “Although global sales fell by 12% last year, the market performed better than the expectations of …
New Nike Flagship In Toronto’s Yorkdale Mall Uses Massive LED Feature Wall September 9, 2021 by Super User This is a recently opened Nike store at Toronto’s lux-oriented Yorkdale mall, a cavernous two-level space that includes a very large LED feature wall backing a central stairway. The store is a partnership between Nike and the Israeli retail fashion chain Fox-Wizel Ltd, which already operates several sports and beauty stores in Canada. The store …