Digital Displays Evolving From Trade Show Add-Ons To Main Components In Stands February 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes It was about four or five years ago when rental LED displays came up enough in visual quality and durability and down enough in price to make them feasible as backdrops, headers and feature walls in trade show exhibits. Back then, you’d see them here and there – and mostly as add-ons, save the biggest …
New Elevator Test Skyscraper In Atlanta Clad With 8-Storey Mesh LED February 11, 2022 by Dave Haynes The German elevator company TK Elevator (old name was ThyssenKrupp) has opened a new North American headquarters and test facility in NW Atlanta that features a 420-foot test tower and an eight-floor-tall semi-transparent mesh LED. The mesh LED is being touted as the largest of its type on a building in the U.S., and it …
UK’s HYPERVSN Launches 2nd Gen Version Of Its Spinning LED Displays February 10, 2022 by Dave Haynes HYPERVSN, the UK firm known in digital signage and pro AV circles for those spinning LED light wand thingies, has released the next-generation of its products – finer, brighter and better integrated with the broader signage and AV ecosystem. The new generation platform is called HYPERVSN SmartV and has a variety of advancements, notably: an …
Dubai Outdoor Shopping Complex Upgrades 40 Display Network February 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes It’s Dubai, where just about everything done is over the top and budget restraint is an abstract concept, but nonetheless this is an interesting look at how large format digital signage can dominate an outdoor retail development. The development is call The Beach and is in the lux Jumeirah Beach area of Dubai, along the …
Leyard Posts Technical Drawings, Details On Its Role At Beijing Olympics Opening February 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes The plot seems to keep thickening over which Chinese display technology put together the feast of LED displays and delivered big visuals for the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Winter Olympics, with giant LED manufacturer Leyard putting out material that shows drawings, behind the scenes photos and even the people who put it together. This …
LEDs Create Zombie-Filled School Bus For Netflix Series Promo February 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes I am not a big fan of digital out of home advertising and marketing campaigns that try to realize a desired effect by scaring the crap out of people, and this is a prime example of a digital display project that is very clever and eye-catching, but could cause some collateral damage. It’s in Bangkok, …
Beijing Opening Ceremonies Clearly Used A Lot Of LED, But Nothing Clear About The Supplier! February 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes The giant display that covered the full floor of the stadium hosting the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics was definitely LED technology, but what’s not at all definite – it seems – is the supplier of all those LED tiles. In various reports and social media posts from companies, the 10,000-plus square meters of …
Is The Beijing Bird’s Nest Floor One Big LED Display? February 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes I watched a little of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony this morning as Nespresso very slowly re-animated me, and thought to myself, “That’s some serious projection-mapping going on there.” But looking online at some of the images coming out of the Bird’s Nest stadium, I am now thinking the whole stadium floor and the ramp …
Clever Creative Gives Iconic Times Square LED Board An Arcade Games Theme February 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes Tuning the creative to the display canvas seems like a pretty obvious strategy, but we’ve all seen examples in which of creative running on unconventional displays that didn’t factor in things like gaps and odd shapes. Here, happily, is a great example of creative that specifically works with the challenge presented by a spectacular, high-profile …
Nanolumens, Megapixel VR Partner To Optimize LED Video Wall Visuals, Security January 31, 2022 by Dave Haynes A big fine pitch LED video wall can be driven by nothing more than the same sorts of media players that push content to flat panel displays, but specialized technology tuned to video walls will tend to do a noticeably better job with the final visuals. Video wall processing was something I didn’t pay much …
