Revitalized Toronto Union Station Adds More LED, LCD Video Walls March 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes The main commuter rail and bus hub in Toronto – Union Station – has been undergoing renovations for the past 10 years, and as new common areas have been spruced up, they’ve opened with more and more digital components, including LED video walls for ad spots and messaging. The latest area released at the station …
Bat Signal Flashes In Movie Promo Running On World’s Tallest Ad Display March 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes The tallest building on the planet – the Burj Khalifa in Dubai – is clad in LED light sticks that have enabled it to show visuals like very basic messages, huge photos and things like country colors. But I hadn’t really thought about the skyscraper’s media facade having tight enough pixels to run multimedia campaigns. …
Demand For Super Fine Pitch LED Spiked In Q4 2021: Omdia March 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes Demand for super fine pitch large format LED displays spiked in the last quarter of 2021, according to the latest numbers research firm Omdia’s LED Video Displays Intelligence Service. Researcher Tay Taehoon Kim regularly pushes out a helpful teaser via Linkedin that rounds up some of the observed activity, and the one from overnight suggests …
LED Mainstreamed: New Tribal Community Center In Wisconsin Has 13 Big LED Displays March 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes A deployment of screens at a community center in upstate Wisconsin won’t set any pulses racing for what was done or what’s on the screens, but it is interesting in terms of the scale of the job and the owners. The Forest County Potawatomi Native American band Indian opened an ambitious community center in late …
Europe Has A New King Of The LED Ad Boards … In Suburban Vienna??? March 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes Via Sixteen:Nine’s German language content partner Invidis … The largest LED Digital OOH display in Europe has long been the big Picadilly Lights display in central London, but an even larger screen has just lit up on an office building located in a suburb of Vienna, Austria. The semi-transparent LED appears, from, images, to cover …
Historic Moviehouse Marquee Gets LED Upgrade March 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a nice little retrofit of a historic moviehouse marquee in a small town south of Buffalo, NY, replacing the old letterboard for movie titles with a flanking pair of 8mm LED displays. The cinema is in Gowanda, New York, and the analog and digital sign firm Watchfire Signs supplied the display and Signs …
That Giant Vegas Sphere, With 160,000 Sq, Ft. Of LED, On Track To Open Next Year February 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes There are many, many examples of big projects – especially in places like Las Vegas – that get announced but either never happen, or take a very long time to go from PR to built and opened. But that giant orb just off the strip touted to have the largest LED screen on Earth is …
A Regular Billboard Pylon Won’t Do When It’s Beside “The Most Beautiful Building On Earth” February 23, 2022 by Dave Haynes Large format Digital OOH LED displays along roadways tend to big rectangles stuck atop or on the sides of buildings, or perched above a utilitarian pole or column, so it’s a bit unusual to see a set-up that looks like it came out of a creative design studio. In this case, the extra effort and …
Outdoor Mesh LEDs Now Bright Enough For Daytime Applications February 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes Semi-transparent mesh LEDs that have mainly been used in windows or inside buildings are now a combination of bright enough and light enough to retrofit buildings and use as 24/7 advertising and marketing machines. Manufacturers used to tell me mesh LEDs were great for nighttime, but didn’t necessarily have the lighting power to overcome direct …
LG Broadens NFT Digital Art Partnership With Blackdove To Include Corporate Projects February 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes LG has extended a partnership with the digital art curation platform Blackdove from residential into commercial digital signage projects, making it possible to put large format digital artworks on to video walls in venues like office tower lobbies and corporate reception areas. Available in markets worldwide starting this quarter, says PR, Blackdove curation software can …
