CRI Feeling Chip Shortage; Big Rollouts Delayed May 18, 2021 by Super User When I put out a request for reader insights about the global chip shortage and the impacts on businesses, I maybe should not have been surprised by the lack of response. I had a few who were willing to share, but only off the record. It’s one of those debates many companies are probably having …
Burnley’s Historic Football Venue Getting Massive LED Upgrade May 18, 2021 by Super User There are lots of examples of huge, buzzworthy LED displays going up in new sports venues – over the pitch and in some cases being all or much of the facade. Here’s a very different kind of project – involving a more than 140-year-old venue and a mid-tier English Premier League football team that doesn’t …
Hamburg Pop-Up Bike Store Uses LCD Video Wall To Drive Specialized Brand May 18, 2021 by Super User LED gets all the attention for video walls these days, but there are still retail projects going in that take advantage of the lower cost and resolution of narrow bezel LCD displays. This is a pop-up store in Hamburg, Germany, run by Concept Cycles but built for the premium partner brand Specialized. The 300 sq. …
Rise Vision, Airtame Partner On Digital Signage Solution Aimed Mainly At Schools May 18, 2021 by Super User Longtime digital signage CMS Rise Vision has announced an intriguing partnership with Airtame, a technology startup that also offers a digital signage solution built around a device that looks like a Google Chromecast dongle. That partnership relates to Rise Vision’s vast and excellent library of user-driven content templates for scenarios like schools. With Rise Vision’s …
Gaudi Fans Get Immersed In Architect’s Genius In Six-Sided LED Cube Room May 18, 2021 by Super User Hat Tip to AV Magazine for noting this … Casa Batlló, a museum in Barcelona dedicated to Antoni Gaudí (the Sagrada Familia is his most famous work), has a new exhibition that gets into the mind of the architect. It’s showpiece is a roughly 30 foot square room with a 10 foot ceiling that is …
Display Week: Need A Bigger Desktop Monitor? How About A 89-Inch Curved MicroLED? May 18, 2021 by Super User I am looking at a big, curved monitor as I type this, and while it seemed crazily large when I first got it, I’ve had it long enough now to vaguely think, “I’d maybe get something bigger if I could.” I would not, for example, say no to getting a real-world version of this prototype …
Display Week: Sun Vision Display Touts Outdoor LCD Display With Up To 95% Less Energy Usage May 18, 2021 by Super User This a demo video from the SID Display Week virtual stand for an Illinois company called Sun Vision Display, which is showing an outdoor-rated LCD display that uses reflective LCD technology. The company uses reflective LCD technology to work WITH bright sunlight, instead of cranking up the brightness on a conventional LED backlight array to …
Display Week: DSCC’s Analysis Suggest MicroLED A Niche Product; Manufacturing Challenges Remain May 17, 2021 by Super User MicroLED has received a ton of buzz in digital signage circles the last 2-3 years because of the proposition of building big seamless video walls that look as good as LCD or OLED. The big barrier to widespread adoption has been cost – driven in part by a need to make production more efficient and …
Display Week: Japan Display Shows Transparent LCD As Variation On COVID Shields May 17, 2021 by Super User Japan Display or JDI – a specialty LCD display manufacturer owned by Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi – had some of the more impressive tech at Display Week that last time it was an in-person show. This week, the company has a virtual stand at the event and I was intrigued by a link to a …
Display Week: E Ink Shows Its Advances In Color, Motion E-Paper Displays May 17, 2021 by Super User E Ink has a stand at the virtual SID Display Week, and this video (below) walks through where the company is at with things like showing color and animations. Every year, the product gets a little closer to something that competes favorably with more established technology, most notably LCD. You can see in the video …
