Huge 50 Meter-Wide LED Video Wall Used As Changeable Set By Chinese State Broadcaster April 19, 2021 by Super User This is a huge LED video wall – 50 meters by 10 meters tall – being used for an ever-changeable broadcast set by a Chinese state broadcaster. The curved wall was put up to help run a two-hour live TV event recently, called CCTV Consumer Rights Day Gala. I will leave it to other, more …
LED Pulse Turns Suspended Light Strings Into Low-Rez Three-Dimensional Motion Display April 19, 2021 by Super User Hat Tip – Sound and Video Contractor A Hong Kong company has started showing a display system that uses suspended LED strings – with each light emitter mapped and addressable – to create motion visuals that have volume and dimension. The system from LED Pulse is called Dragon O. It can be scaled up to …
AUO Latest Display Giant To Add MicroLED To Product Portfolio; Showing Demos At TouchTaiwan April 16, 2021 by Super User I wrote earlier today about Touch Taiwan going ahead as a live trade show next week, aimed at a domestic crowd and in an island country that is seeing just a handful of new COVID cases day to day. An industry friend sent along a show promo video from AUO – a Taiwan company that …
Growth Expected In Bundled, All-In-One DV LED Displays: Omdia April 16, 2021 by Super User There is now enough activity and demand in the area of all-in-one, bundled LED displays to warrant marketplace research and analysis, with a new report from the global research firm Omdia looking specifically at this narrowly-defined product category. Omdia has broken out data from its regular LED Video Displays Market Tracker to look specifically at …
STRATACACHE CEO DETAILS PLANS FOR FIRST US MICROLED DISPLAY PLANT April 16, 2021 by Super User The trade publication i-micronews has a Q&A post up on its site featuring STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel, providing detail and color about his plans for that big, old semiconductor plant in Oregon that he’s turning into a microLED factory. The interview was done by a couple of guys from Yole Développement, a French research firm …
IDtechEx Report Takes Deep Dive On MicroLED; Full Report Is $6K, But Here’s Exec Summary April 16, 2021 by Super User The UK-based research firm and consultancy IDtechEx has pushed out an interesting discussion paper about the state and potential marketplace applications for microLED, sorting out its value proposition versus competing technologies like OLED and Quantum Dots LCDs. Unlike other reports from legit research firms (most of the “research” on digital signage tech comes out of …
Next Store In UK Fills Checkout Zone With DV LED Wall April 15, 2021 by Super User This is a Next fashion apparel and furnishings store in Leicester, UK (go Foxes!) that uses a sweeping direct view LED s the backdrop to its checkout counter. I like this because of the scale of the screen. LCDs and OLEDs are gorgeous, but they are either going to be screens hanging on a wall …
LED China Attracting As Many As 50,000 People, 1,200 Vendors, This Week In Shenzhen April 14, 2021 by Super User I’m not entirely sure what the COVID situation is in Shenzhen, China, but there is evidently enough comfort around healthy safety for the organizers of LED China to run a live show this week. The event started today, with 1,200 exhibitors and as many as 50,000 attendees, according to the website. There is an option …
DV LED Market Generally Rebounding, But Mainly Just In Chinese Domestic Market April 13, 2021 by Super User The market research firm Omdia has logged predictably mixed results from direct view LED display manufacturers through the COVID-19 pandemic, though there are indications that the sector is generally rebounding. Omdia’s latest quarterly LED market tracker says recovery began in the third quarter and accelerated further in the fourth quarter. In Q4 2020, 336,257 square …
LED Becomes The Walls In Nike’s Dubai Mall Store April 12, 2021 by Super User This is a great example of the whole notion of how direct view LED can be something added to a store design, or in cases like this, how it can be the primary architectural design element. It is a Nike store in the huge Dubai Mall, and is a set of LEDs put in by …