Planar Adds Super-Fine Pitch MicroLED To Video Wall Line-up June 2, 2021 by Super User Portland-based Planar, and by extension its Chinese parent company Leyard, has formally joined the growing list of display companies offering super-fine pitch, microLED-driven video wall displays. The company’s new DirectLight Ultra Series has pitches ranging from 0.6 to 1.2mm. I don’t know if these products meet the display nerd purity test of what’s technically microLED, versus …
ISE Barcelona Photo Gallery Already Up June 2, 2021 by Super User The mini-ISE in Barcelona came and went in a blink, it seems, and while the two-day event ended there earlier today, the organizers already have a photo gallery up. You can see the images here … I did NOT have the time – stupid-busy, not good ‘cuz the weather finally improved here – to take …
Sharp/NEC Start Formally Marketing Smart Window Film For Privacy, Digital Signage June 2, 2021 by Super User The conjoined Sharp/NEC display company has started formally marketing the projection on switchable glass solution that the old NEC started showing at trade shows about three years ago. The idea is that you have electrically controlled interior glass that can be clear when it needs to be, or switched to opaque – for privacy or …
Digital Signage CMS Yodeck Adds Queue Management Via Q-Better Partnership June 1, 2021 by Super User The metering of access into stores and appointment-based retailing that came up by necessity in the past 15 months will stick around, in some fashion, so digital signage solution providers will likely see more and more demand for queue management tools. Those can be built – which can be expensive and time-consuming, and probably hard. …
Concert Venue Uses Giant LED Mesh Canopy To Drive Immersive Experience In Kiev June 1, 2021 by Super User I am not entirely sure what is going on here, but I think this is a concert venue in Kiev, Ukraine, and the record label behind the event is using a big LED mesh canopy to drive ambient visuals. This is what immersive experiences expert Dorothy Di Stefano has to say, via Linkedin: The team …
City Plaza Webcams Get Super-Sized As Real-Time Portal Views To Other Places June 1, 2021 by Super User The video and overall presentation comes across as though the backers have definitively cured cancer, but this community art project coming out of Lithuania is nonetheless kind of interesting. Called Portal, it is essentially a public webcam that connects people on the street with each other, even though they are cities and countries apart. The …
Android Set-Top Box Maker Minix Now Has Player Based On Intel NUC Design June 1, 2021 by Super User If you spend your days sourcing gear for media players, maybe this is not news to you. But I did not know that the Hong Kong manufacturer that seems to make the most trusted Android set-top box for digital signage applications also has a box based on Intel’s NUC design. Minix has a Next Unit …
Alpine Mecca Uses Solar-Powered E-Paper Signs To Guide Visitors June 1, 2021 by Super User E-paper digital signs have been used outside for real-time transit stop information and local directories, but I can’t recall them being used quite like they are in the scenic Bavarian village of Oberstdorf. The area is a skiing and hiking mecca, attracting visitors year-round – a lot of them new to the area and filled …
ISE’s Live Show Opens In Barcelona; Spun As Preview Of Full ISE In Eight Months June 1, 2021 by Super User Integrated Systems Europe is now open in Barcelona – running a small in-person show and a parallel virtual event. It is predictably small – certainly compared against ISEs held in more normal circumstances – and probably attended mostly by people from the region. Show director Mike Blackman is spinning it as an “exclusive preview” of …
Vertiseit Acquires Grassfish, Creating Major Retail Digital Signage Provider May 27, 2021 by Super User Guest Post: Florian Rotberg, Invidis This post first appeared in the German language publication managed by Invidis. The Swedish digital signage integrator and software provider Vertiseit is taking over Grassfish, one of the leading CMS providers in Europe, for EUR 13.5 million. With the merger, the two providers create the European retail digital signage market leader …
