Manchester’s Airport Opens T2; Passengers Welcomed With Giant Display July 15, 2021 by Super User Manchester, England’s airport opened its new Terminal 2 today, and it is filled with the kinds of operational digital signage typical at airports, but there’s also a very nice 81-square meter media wall in a common passengers area. I can’t tell from the pix if it is LED or LCD. I assume LED, but the …
DC’s Union Station Gets Big, Ad-Driven Digital Display Upgrade July 15, 2021 by Super User Union Station, the main rail hub in Washington, DC, has been spruced up with a series of displays across the building’s three level – with a mix of travel, safety and weather information, supported by ads. The network is bankrolled by the media company New Tradition and was project managed by the LA consulting firm …
96M-Wide Visualized Data Display On Sydney’s Convention Center July 13, 2021 by Super User This isn’t new, but it is to me – a long, wide LED running visualized data as art on a permanent installation at the convention center in Sydney, Australia. The Datascape wall is 96 meters wide, or roughly the length of a football pitch. It is on a wall on what is known as Moriarty …
Leicester Square LED Board Takes Beating From Drunk England Fans Before Euro2020 Football Final July 12, 2021 by Super User If you are a football (soccer) fan you will know the European men’s final was played yesterday at London’s Wembley Stadium – a game that unfortunately went to penalty kicks after 30 minutes of extra time. Not a fan of PKs deciding huge games, but that’s a debate that’s raged in football for decades now. …
Daktronics Builds Adflow CMS Features Into Unified Platform That Can Manage Giant LEDs … And LCD Menu Displays July 9, 2021 by Super User It has been a few years since LED display manufacturer Daktronics waded into the smaller-format digital signage display sector with its acquisition of the Canadian software firm Adflow Networks, and now the content management software for giant LEDs and much smaller LCDs has been merged to a single product. The latest software update to Dak’s …
Tokyo Airport Duty-Free Uses LED All The Way Down To Merchandising Counters July 7, 2021 by Super User It’s rare to see a new-build store kitted out with digital displays BEFORE it gets merchandised and opened up, so this is an interesting little video showing fine pitch LED used all over a duty-free shop at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. The duty-free is working with the Shenzhen-based but Japanese market-focused LED firm Shisai Optoelectronics. The …
50-Meter Wide 12K LED Barge Set For Tokyo Oympics Sailing Contests July 5, 2021 by Super User While the content world is still pretty early on the adoption curve for 8K, there is already activity happening and real-world demos of 12K video. Japan has arguably been the earliest adopter of high-res video and spectators at specific events at the Olympics around Tokyo later this month will be able to take in live …
Giant Digital Cat Looms Over Exit To World’s Busiest Subway Station July 5, 2021 by Super User Here’s another wraparound LED board on a building corner that’s using creative that does an anamorphic illusion – this time in Tokyo. Called Cross Shinjuku Vision, the P6 DOOH ad board is on a rounded corner of a new building above the east exit of Shinjuku Station, which handles 3.5 million people PER DAY (you are …
Globe-shaped MSG Sphere project marks milestone in Las Vegas July 2, 2021 by Super User There is a “topping out” ceremony planned for today at the construction site of the Madison Square Garden Sphere, the $1.8 billion entertainment and media venue going up in behind the Venetian and Sands Expo in Las Vegas. The globe-shaped venue is expected to be open by 2023 and it will feature what is touted …
Nissan Crossover Busts Its Thames-side LED Display Case, Using Anamorphic Illusion June 29, 2021 by Super User This is a temporary, pop-up digital marketing display for a Nissan vehicle on the banks of the Thames in London, using the same anamorphic illusion techniques seen lately on corner LED displays in China and South Korea. As with all of these LED projects, clever motion graphic design creates the illusion that the visuals are …
