Samsung’s New The Wall Promo Video Does Killer Job Explaining Tech With Visuals November 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes Manufacturers who send me written PR material that goes on and on, and on, about the technical specs of their display product too often seem to forget that what they sell is a visual product. They want to tell me in written material, instead of show me in pix or, better, in video! So it …
Planar Takes Its Displays On Road This Fall For MicroPalooza Tour October 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes In a nod to the travel-hesitant times, Planar is taking its display pots and pans on the road this fall – on what it calls the MicroPalooza 2021 Tour. The Oregon-based display manufacturer is staging a six-city US product tour in November through mid-December that will see its LCD and LED product showroom hauled to …
MicroLED Manufacturing Could Mark Shift Away From Chinese LED Dominance: Futuresource October 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes The UK research firm Futuresource Consulting – one of a small handful of companies doing legit research in the display industry – has pushed out a new market report looking at the fast-emerging microLED display market. The report suggests more than 60 companies will invest around $10 billion between them over the next few years, …
LG Reseller Tests Transparent LED Window Film In Maine C-Store September 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes I haven’t seen that many examples yet of LG’s transparent LED window film in the wild, so I was intrigued to learn how a C-store was using the technology as a kind of digital window cling. The retail-focused technology integration firm Abierto Networks tested the display giant’s 14mm pixel pitch film was used at a …
LED Display Sales Coming Back; 2021 Global Sales Forecast To Hit $6.5B: Futuresource September 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes Photo: Allsee Technologies Another research firm has pushed out data suggesting that while the worldwide LED industry took a big sales hit as the pandemic took hold in 2020, sales are bouncing back in a big way in 2021. “Although global sales fell by 12% last year, the market performed better than the expectations of …
Korean-US R&D Effort Getting MicroLED Light Emitters Down To The Size Of Virus Particles August 20, 2021 by Dave Haynes If you listened to this week’s Sixteen:Nine Podcast or read the transcript, you may recall SCALA/STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel talking about the microLED plant he is spinning up and the huge advances being seen in microLED R&D. He reference how new manufacturing processes are making it possible to make light-emitting, addressable LEDs that are truly …
Samsung’s 2021 The Wall Has Even Teenier LEDs; Uses Lots Of AI And Wireless Docking July 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes Samsung has announced a new generation of its microLED display dubbed The Wall – with the main changes being even teenier LEDs, 8K support, AI-based processing and adoption of wireless docking. Says Samsung in PR today: A new Micro AI Processor instantly analyses and optimizes every frame of video to deliver the best picture quality …
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 …
Planar Launches Virtual Studio Initiative, With Fine Pitch LED Supplanting Green Screens For Movie Shoots June 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes 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 …
Planar Adds Super-Fine Pitch MicroLED To Video Wall Line-up June 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes 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 …
