Leicester Square LED Board Takes Beating From Drunk England Fans Before Euro2020 Football Final July 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Giant BSOD Greets Motorists On Sydney Highway June 24, 2021 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …