Giant BSOD Greets Motorists On Sydney Highway June 24, 2021 by Super User There’s always another one, so I am not validating the Linkedin speculation that this is the world’s biggest Blue Screen Of Death, but it would have to be up there in scale. This is on a motorway in Sydney, Australia, and is an LED ad screen for a media company in that country. The Linkedin …
Sport Direct’s Oxford Street Flagship In London Has 100M Pixels Of Digital Display June 22, 2021 by Super User There are exceptions, but in general terms the one retail vertical that pretty consistently goes to town with screens in stores is sports and recreation. You don’t typically see new builds and renos for clothing, grocery or mass merchandise putting screens all over the place, but that definitely still happens in sports retailing. A lot …
Vuereal Demos Super-Bright MicroLED Display On Glass, With 85% Transparency June 17, 2021 by Super User Via DisplayDaily and microled.info Microled.info has a short post up about a demonstration by the Canadian start-up Vuereal of a transparent microLED display that does more than 3,000 nits on brightness measures – enough to cut through bright sunlight. The Waterloo, ON start-up’s prototype display is only smartphone-sized and the use-case for this sort of …
Planar Launches Virtual Studio Initiative, With Fine Pitch LED Supplanting Green Screens For Movie Shoots June 16, 2021 by Super User Planar is the latest large format display company to sense and go after the rapidly emerging virtual production business – which sees big direct view LED displays replacing green screens on film and broadcast production sets. There is a lot of inertia around this use-case for fine pitch LED because a flat or rounded studio …
Huawei Flagship Stores In EU Using LED Chandeliers As Design Centerpieces June 15, 2021 by Super User The retail design firm Lonsdale is doing some interesting work with what is described as LED chandeliers in Huawei retail stores in Europe. The Chinese tech manufacturer’s flagship stores in Paris and Berlin have tall LED sculptures as centerpieces in the store design – with custom LED strips, clad with mirrored frames, suspended vertically and …
Store-filling LED Wall Lights Up Chocolate Ship in Schiphol Airport June 14, 2021 by Super User Big DV LED video walls in retail are growing increasingly common, but in many cases the visual impact is limited by the sheer size of the store. Here’s a case where the LED is almost as big as the store, so it has a massive visual impact. It is the new Tony’s Chocolonely store post-security …
Tropical Birds Appear In Open Air Bar’s Trees, Using Spinning LED Light Wands June 14, 2021 by Super User Those madly spinning LED light wand thingies don’t make a lot of sense to me in a digital signage industry that tries hard to not use tech with moving parts. But once in a while I come across an application where they make sense and are effective. There have been a couple of interesting applications …
Brisbane Telecoms Retailer’s Corner Storefront Features Twin LED Arches June 8, 2021 by Super User This is a very interesting use of direct view LED on the facade of a high street telecoms store in Brisbane, Australia. The display is a curved arc over two windows on the street corner store for the Yes Optus Store on Queen Street in Brisbane. The project was done by the local to Brisbane …
LED Display Maker, Suppliers Create DV LED Training Academy June 7, 2021 by Super User A group of mainly Asian suppliers have banded together to create what they’re calling the EZ LED Academy – a free series of training pieces aimed at raising the level of understanding of direct view LED display technology. One of the companies involved is EZ LED, a Shenzhen region LED manufacturer, while the others are …
Planar Adds Super-Fine Pitch MicroLED To Video Wall Line-up June 2, 2021 by Super User Portland-based Planar, and by extension its Chinese parent company Leyard, has formally joined the growing list of display companies offering super-fine pitch, microLED-driven video wall displays. The company’s new DirectLight Ultra Series has pitches ranging from 0.6 to 1.2mm. I don’t know if these products meet the display nerd purity test of what’s technically microLED, versus …
