InfoComm Day One Impressions: LED Everywhere, WTF Is MLED, And TCL Is Coming June 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Canadian Start-Up VueReal Demos Tech That Prints MicroLED Displays As Fine As 30,000 Lights Per Inch March 28, 2023 by Dave Haynes When you start to get into the technical weeds on emerging display technology, you learn all kinds of mind-wobbling things – like R&D work to print super-premium microLED displays in kinda sorta the same way as commercial print shops do photos, documents and signs. A company in Waterloo, Ontario (the Kitchener-Waterloo area south of Toronto …
More Than Half Of EU Orders For Samsung’s Super-Premium LED The Wall Are For Corporate Environments March 22, 2023 by Dave Haynes More than half of Samsung’s orders for its premium fine pitch LED display, The Wall, are going into corporate environments. That’s one of the interesting little nuggets of information coming out of an interview with Steven Pollok, the Director of the Display Division for Samsung’s European operations. Pollok did a Q&A published today by our …
LG Launches Training Academy Aimed At Boosting Awareness, Expertise For Direct View LED March 9, 2023 by Dave Haynes One of the reasons many LED manufacturers market fixed-size all-in-one LED displays is that their partner ecosystems include a lot of companies and people who don’t fully have their heads around how these kinds of display projects come together. The challenge with that approach is that bundled solutions can limit what might get pitched and …
16 Sq. Meter MicroLED Wall Greets Shoppers At Belgian Mall March 6, 2023 by Dave Haynes I’ve not seen or read a lot of PR about actual deployments of super-premium microLED products like Samsung’s The Wall, but there are indeed end-customers out there, including this shopping mall near Antwerp, Belgium. It’s at the Waasland Shopping Center and is measured at 16 square meters. It appears to be fixed along a corridor, …
