Oldie But (Very) Goodie: LCD-Based Video Wall Array At Birmingham, AL Airport December 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes Just about everything covered here involves new or updated technology and new deployments, but here is something that’s been in place for more than a decade but remains noteworthy. It is a mosaic LCD video array at Birmingham Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama, described as using depictions of movement, migration and marching from different eras …
Munich-Based Insurer Uses Big LCDs Instead Of Fine-Pitch LED To Bling Up Its Lobby November 29, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting example of a corporate client, space designer and integrator collectively opting for very large LCD over fine pitch LED to create a big digital presence in a company’s main reception area. It is the lobby of the Munich headquarters of the insurance firm WWK Versicherung, and uses four 98-inch Sony Bravia 4K …
Transparent LCD Adds Virtual Information Kiosk At Riyadh’s Airport November 28, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s one of those transparent LCD virtual presence set-ups being used at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s big airport, promoting Virgin Connect eSims and answering questions, using AI. It hits me as very expensive overkill, given what it does, but it does offer bling and buzz in a part of the world that especially likes its bling …
New Downtown Toronto Bank Branch Draws Eyes With Some 250 Sq. Meters Of LED Display In Windows November 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Chinese display manufacturer Muxwave will soon have another high-profile reference case for its in-window LED mesh displays – the windows of a new street-level branch of the Bank of Montreal in downtown Toronto. The branch, set to open Monday, is tied in with Toronto Eaton Centre, the busiest mall in Canada. It is at …
Grocery TV Says New Tie-Up Pushes Its Retail Media Network Footprint Past 5,000 Stores November 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes Austin, TX-based start-up Grocery TV says a new deal with an east coast US regional grocer will get the company’s overall installed base past 5,000, involving about 100 different grocers. The new deal is with Redner’s Markets, an employee-owned regional grocery chain with 44 stores across Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware. Redner’s will leverage Grocery TV’s in-house technology …
Why Update The Digital Poster When We Have A Perfectly Good Printer … And Tape??? November 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes Oh dear … Spotted in a Linkedin post by the managing director for a UK tech company … In a office used by the police in a Railway station Ainsdale … Also, outdoor waterproof installed in the ticket office switched off by staff as they claimed the fan was annoying them. Probably a bunch of …
New Digital Board On Venetian In Vegas Wraps Around Resort Archway November 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes The F1 race circuit is back in Las Vegas this week, so the city and glitzy Strip will be getting even more attention than usual. And taxi and ride share drivers will be using a lot of salty language as they crawl through traffic clogged by diversions needed to make the Strip a race track. …
A LOT Of LED Planned For Inside Of New Saudi Mega-Stadium Outside Riyadh November 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes Plans have been unveiled for yet another entertainment-themed mega-project in Saudi Arabia – this one for King Salman Stadium, which would be the largest-capacity stadium in that country and among the largest globally. While some recent Saudi project plans have a lot of very overt digital components, this one is the opposite in style – …
Dubai Mall Adds Shape-Shifting LED Halo Rings To Busy Atrium Area November 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes The sprawling Dubai Mall in Guess Where, UAE has added yet more digital bling – commissioning and seeing installed a five-ring LED halo sculpture suspended over the shopping center’s Fashion Catwalk Atrium. Each of 3.9mm pitch Daktronics LED halo rings measures 0.75 meters high by 24 meters in circumference. Halo LEDs are kinda sorta common, …
Parking Lot Management Platform Adds Real-Time Displays To Solution Stack November 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of digital signage that’s put in place for no other reason than improving a process for the user and operator – networked displays in parking garage that are end-points in a cloud-based parking management system. I call it boring signage and that is a term of endearment, just like boring signage at …
