MiniLED Mainstreaming, While True MicroLED For Pro Displays Still Years Off: Futuresource InfoComm Report July 20, 2023 by Super User The UK-based research firm Futuresource sends teams of analysts to the major pro AV trade shows, and there were several people in Orlando last month for InfoComm – resulting in part in a round-up deck that the company kindly makes available as a free download to the industry at large. Portland, OR-based Ted Romanowitz does …
DSSE: Major Display Vendors Relate Shifts On Software, Manufacturing July 13, 2023 by Super User Last week’s excellent Digital Signage Summit Europe in Munich presented a problem of having to decide between which of two concurrent sessions to sit in on, and I missed what looks – in hindsight – like a good one on the display market. Fortunately, Sixteen:Nine’s content partners at invidis – which also presents the DSSE conference …
ClearLED Seeing Interest, Demand For Its Micro Mesh LED Displays From Designed Space Community June 22, 2023 by Super User There was a lot of fantastic display technology on show last week at InfoComm in Orlando, but the dozens of LED manufacturers who were there had and have a running challenge of it all looking pretty much the same. A big microLED video wall looks amazing. But so does a 0.95mm LED wall using Chip …
Liquid Crystal Supplier Confirms Large-Format LCDs Are A Sunset Technology June 20, 2023 by Super User One of the key suppliers of liquid crystal technology for flat panel display makers has pretty much confirmed what we all sort of know – that LCDs are a sunset technology and various flavours of LED and OLED are gradually taking over, first with TVs. The tech publication Tom’s Guide has a post up with …
InfoComm Day One Impressions: LED Everywhere, WTF Is MLED, And TCL Is Coming June 15, 2023 by Super User Sitting back in my hotel room quite impressed with myself for doing the wise thing, for a change, by getting the hell out of a cocktail party that had a live band, a very open bar and some old friends who were bent on having as much fun as possible at InfoComm in Orlando. Back …
MicroLED Lab Gets 2.8M Nits Brightness Out Of R&D Display Unit June 8, 2023 by Super User When the digital signage world thinks about brightness levels in displays, we tend to look at measures like 3,500 nits as being super-bright, but microLED has the potential to ratchet up that measure QUITE a bit – like brightness levels exceeding 2.8 million nits. That is not a typo. The qualifier here is that this …
Nanolumens: InfoComm Digital Signage Mixer Sponsor Profile June 7, 2023 by Super User InfoComm is next week in Orlando, and one of the key events for the digital signage side of North American pro AV is a networking mixer set for June 13th. Sixteen:Nine is doing this event with the trade association AVIXA, which owns and runs InfoComm and is, frankly, doing most of the heavy lifting on …
BOE Shows 110-inch 16K MicroLED Monitor At Display Week May 25, 2023 by Super User Image via Twitter – credit Vincent_Teoh The Society for Information Display’s annual display nerd fest – called Display Week – is on this week in Los Angeles, and I have been reading over press reports and news releases and, well, generally going cross-eyed. It is a trade show and conference best suited to people with …
Apple Spinning Up Its Own Micro LED Display Production In Taiwan: Report May 23, 2023 by Super User Apple is getting directly involved in the development and manufacturing of micro LED displays, but the tech giant’s focus will be on small screens, not big video walls. Nikkei Asia is reporting that the Silicon Valley-based company has R&D facilities in Taiwan, and a partner team that includes LG and semiconductor giant TSMC, working on …
Pitches For Outdoor LED Displays Getting Fine Enough To Rival High-Bright LCD Units May 16, 2023 by Super User The high brightness outdoor LCD business has been at least a little insulated from the rise of LED displays because the pixel pitch for outdoor units wasn’t anywhere near tight enough to supplant LCDs for applications that had messaging that would be read at close quarters. Outdoor LED was great, at a distance. But now …