Twin 58-Floor Office Towers In China Are Godzilla-Size LED Billboards At Night August 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes When people in New York City raised a major stink about a barge on the river acting as a floating LED billboard, my first thought was that if they were upset with that, they will go thermonuclear when a media company tries to emulate what’s happening in China. Entire office buildings and central business district …
PORTL’s Transparent Displays Being Used By University’s Health Educators To Demonstrate Disorders August 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes Much of the attention around the use of transparent displays to show people at life-size dimension, in remote locations, has been focused on sectors like events and entertainment, but a Florida university has identified a very different use-case: healthcare education. The University of Central Florida is using LA-based PORTL’s tricked-out transparent flat panels to show …
Almo Resumes In-Person E4 Experience Road Show Events In US, Starting in Boston In October August 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes The AV distribution company Almo Professional A/V is resuming its schedule of AV road shows in cities across the U.S., with organizers undoubtedly hoping the rapidly-rising case counts among unvaccinated Americans will not force those efforts back to online-only. The company has been doing these regional events for years, but they have been online only …
Diversified Continues AV/IT Integrator Roll-Up, Acquiring HB Communications August 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes The North American AV/IT integrator business continues to consolidate, with the latest acquisition deal seeing NJ-based Diversified acquiring HB Communications, which is based up the turnpike in Connecticut. Diversified, by most measures the most active and knowledgeable big integrator in digital signage, says buying HB gives it even more of a footprint in the U.S. …
Sony Building Up Digital Signage CMS Partners In Android/SoC-Focused Collaborative Alliance July 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes Sony wasn’t an overly active or noticed player in digital signage for a bunch of years, but the company has been steadily trying to boost both its profile and its partnership programs in the last 18 months or so. The company recently announced something called the Collaborative Alliances program, which sounded a bit like a …
Some 600 Panasonic Digital Signage Displays In Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium, But No Ticketholders To See Them July 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes The track and field events are now up and literally running at the new National Stadium in Tokyo for the Olympics, allowing viewers to see a lot of large format LED displays. But there are no ticketed spectators, so very few people other than athletes, coaches and officials are seeing more than 600 digital signage …
Direct View LED: No Longer the New Kid On The Digital Signage Block February 5, 2026July 28, 2021 by Dave Haynes Guest Post: David Jones, Allsee Technologies As someone who’s been working at the forefront of AV technology for over two decades, it’s been incredible to witness the evolution of different display technologies within the digital signage industry – and in particular, direct view LED (DV-LED) solutions – over recent years. Many of the partner companies …
New Charlotte, NC Office Block Puts Real-Time Data Visuals On Lenticular-Like LED Strips In Lobby July 27, 2021 by Dave Haynes A new-build office block in the finance-heavy central business district of Charlotte, NC opened this year with a very different take on using LED to create a lobby experience. The Ally Charlotte Center uses has a series of animated data visualizations that translate demographic, cultural, environmental, and geographic data into digital art, and does so …
Netflix Mashes Up Reactive Street-Level LED Billboard To Scare The Crap Out Of Milanese July 27, 2021 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Damian Rezner at Warsaw’s Screen Network for referencing this on Linkedin. This is a pop-up marketing display in Milan for a horror series on Netflix – using a blend of an LED display, sensors and live actors to scare the crap out of people walking past. Set up as a plaza level …
Telelogos Integrates CMS With Business Systems Giant SAP July 27, 2021 by Dave Haynes There are numerous digital signage CMS software companies heavily focused now on workplaces as their key vertical, and increasingly you are seeing direct partnerships or joint ventures between companies that have different angles for getting at new business. One particularly interesting way is to partner and integrate with one of the big tech companies that …
