Display Industry Finally Settling On Definition Of True MicroLED: Futuresource November 30, 2023 by Dave Haynes Image: PlayNitride The misleading labelling and fuzzy marketing that has surrounded the emergence of large format microLED displays is starting to go away, says an expert display market analyst, with the industry starting to broadly agree on what really is a microLED video wall – or more specifically, a True MicroLED display. “Over the last …
LED Displays Have Advanced So Much They Now Emulate Form Factor Of Architectural Tile November 22, 2023 by Dave Haynes Ever since the Comcast Tower lobby experience was switched on 15-plus years ago in Philadelphia, it’s been evident that LED would eventually be a design consideration and wall finish for architects and the people who do the final look for built spaces. That first job applied a very big grid of Barco LED cabinets to …
Waikiki Beach Hilton Now Sports What’s Described As Largest Screen In Hawaii October 31, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Hilton Waikiki Beach in Honolulu now has what’s touted to be the largest screen in Hawaii – a 146 inch version of the Samsung’s premium The Wall LED display. It’s up behind the bar in the lobby of the hotel, which caters to both business travelers and vacationers. The big screen splits it time …
NC State’s Flashy Library Refreshes Video Walls With Sony CLEDs October 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes North Carolina State was a pretty early adopter of big video walls, putting them in when its James B. Hunt Jr. Library first went up about 10 years ago. That tech – including a big Christie MicroTiles wall (those little rear-projection blocks) – was agin out, and the university has started to replace them with …
Luxury EV Maker Uses 255-Inch “The Wall” As Design Tool October 4, 2023 by Dave Haynes Video walls that add bling to high-end auto showrooms is now commonplace, but here’s a case of a premium LED wall being used behind the scenes to help designers develop and tweak the look of new models in development. The Lucid Group has a 255-inch version of Samsung’s flagship The Wall product in its design …
Custom-Fit Version Of Samsung’s The Wall Sells Merits Of Syracuse University To Students, Parents September 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a nice piece of integration work done to blend a big micro LED video wall into the interior features of an architectural landmark – a circa 1964 university building designed by I.M. Pei. The video wall is in place in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University to sell prospective …
MiniLED Mainstreaming, While True MicroLED For Pro Displays Still Years Off: Futuresource InfoComm Report July 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
