Projects: JFK’s T4 Now Greets Arrivals With Big, Sweeping LED Display April 27, 2017 by Super User This is a new two-sided 30-foot by 10-foot direct view LED display at the arrivals hall at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport Terminal 4, which is mostly known as a Delta terminal. It’s a curved NanoLumens Nixel LED that displays ads, interspersed with flight information, time, news and weather. T4 has a throughput of about6 million …
Projects: New Chicago Office Tower Switches On Amazing Staggered Column LED Wall April 26, 2017 by Super User A new commercial tower in Chicago called 150 North Riverside has lit up what looks to be a pretty amazing video wall/experiential digital art sculpture in its lobby, using a staggered series of direct view LED columns. https://vimeo.com/214059013 Called 150 Media Stream, the 3,000 sq ft wall is there as a digital art both for …
Projects: Toronto VW Dealer Welcomes Customers With Massive 2 by 8 Video Wall April 24, 2017 by Super User Humberview Volkswagen in Toronto did a big reno recently that was finished off by a massive 2 by 8 video wall on the showroom bulkhead wall. The 27-foot by four-foot video wall has 16 ultra-narrow-bezel 46-inch LCDs that can run a single large image or up to four media pieces side by side, using a digital video matrix …
16:9 Projects Podcast: 10net On The Lush Dream Lounge April 21, 2017 by Super User Michael Tutton, the host of Sixteen Nine Projects, was at Digital Signage Expo in March and had the opportunity to speak with a number of Apex Award nominees. In this episode, he features Dan Hagen, CEO of 10net, based in Vancouver and Seattle. 10net won a Bronze Medal for their work for with cosmetic company …
Projects: National Sept. 11 Museum Upgrades Digital Signage With BrightSign’s 4K Tech April 10, 2017 by Super User The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in lower Manhattan recently overhauled its digital signage infrastructure, adding in a stack of BrightSign players. The little purple boxes now power about a third of the museum’s digital signage set-up, feeding informational and interactive content to roughy 30 displays located throughout all seven floors of the subterranean museum. Hal …
Projects: Going From Chalkboards To Digital Saves Bar 180-Plus Labor Hours A Year April 7, 2017 by Super User A little bar and restaurant down the highway from me in Stratford, Ontario has worked out that putting in digital signage displays has saved them 182 hours in labor costs annually. Until a big reno in 2013, Bentley’s Bar, Inn & Restaurant did their daily menu specials, beer boards and martini boards all by hand …
Projects: Louisiana Wellness Center Spans 12K Video Across Three Walls April 5, 2017 by Super User The new Education Center at the Wellness Center of Thibodaux Regional, in Thibodaux, Louisiana, greets visitors with a 17-minute video that showcases the native beauty of Louisiana across three 4K video walls. The multi-screen video experience developed by VisionQuest Design & Production of Atlanta features nature scenes, landmarks, plantations, and the Bayou, among other local …
Projects: Check Out This Amazing 13K Immersive Video Wall In Netflix’s New LA HQ April 3, 2017 by Super User This is pretty amazing – an 80-foot, 13K, fine-pitch LED video wall running custom ambient content in the lobby of the new Netflix building in LA. Vast video walls in lobbies is not all that uncommon anymore among well-heeled companies and property owners, but the content in many to most of those cases is meant …
16:9 Projects Podcast: Jacksonville International Airport March 24, 2017 by Super User Imagine how upset an airport full of people would be if you weren’t able to deliver them the data they required. Information they need to get to their gate and flight on time and to find their luggage… not to mention emergency messaging On this episode of Projects, Michael Tutton talks to the people responsible …
100,000 Downloads For 16:9 Podcast March 10, 2017 by Super User The mothership 16:9 podcast is less than a year old but my back-end stats are telling me the 46 episodes to date have been downloaded about 100,000 times in total. When I started, I had no idea what the response might be, but it wasn’t that kind of number. Major podcasts on big issues get …
