PORTL Puts Swiss Timepiece Execs At Shanghai Trade Show, Without Leaving Alps April 19, 2021 by Super User I’m a big fan of what PORTL is doing with its remote display system, for use-cases like new luxury watch launches and demos done by a Swiss firm for a recent trade show many time zones away in Shanghai. The timepiece firm IWC used PORTL’s display and software system to have its CEO and rock …
Huge 50 Meter-Wide LED Video Wall Used As Changeable Set By Chinese State Broadcaster April 19, 2021 by Super User This is a huge LED video wall – 50 meters by 10 meters tall – being used for an ever-changeable broadcast set by a Chinese state broadcaster. The curved wall was put up to help run a two-hour live TV event recently, called CCTV Consumer Rights Day Gala. I will leave it to other, more …
LED Pulse Turns Suspended Light Strings Into Low-Rez Three-Dimensional Motion Display April 19, 2021 by Super User Hat Tip – Sound and Video Contractor A Hong Kong company has started showing a display system that uses suspended LED strings – with each light emitter mapped and addressable – to create motion visuals that have volume and dimension. The system from LED Pulse is called Dragon O. It can be scaled up to …
AUO Latest Display Giant To Add MicroLED To Product Portfolio; Showing Demos At TouchTaiwan April 16, 2021 by Super User I wrote earlier today about Touch Taiwan going ahead as a live trade show next week, aimed at a domestic crowd and in an island country that is seeing just a handful of new COVID cases day to day. An industry friend sent along a show promo video from AUO – a Taiwan company that …
Growth Expected In Bundled, All-In-One DV LED Displays: Omdia April 16, 2021 by Super User There is now enough activity and demand in the area of all-in-one, bundled LED displays to warrant marketplace research and analysis, with a new report from the global research firm Omdia looking specifically at this narrowly-defined product category. Omdia has broken out data from its regular LED Video Displays Market Tracker to look specifically at …
STRATACACHE CEO DETAILS PLANS FOR FIRST US MICROLED DISPLAY PLANT April 16, 2021 by Super User The trade publication i-micronews has a Q&A post up on its site featuring STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel, providing detail and color about his plans for that big, old semiconductor plant in Oregon that he’s turning into a microLED factory. The interview was done by a couple of guys from Yole Développement, a French research firm …
IDtechEx Report Takes Deep Dive On MicroLED; Full Report Is $6K, But Here’s Exec Summary April 16, 2021 by Super User The UK-based research firm and consultancy IDtechEx has pushed out an interesting discussion paper about the state and potential marketplace applications for microLED, sorting out its value proposition versus competing technologies like OLED and Quantum Dots LCDs. Unlike other reports from legit research firms (most of the “research” on digital signage tech comes out of …
Nudge: Looking For More Responses To Workplace Digital Signage Survey (Takes Minutes!) April 16, 2021 by Super User I am looking for more responses to the workplace digital signage survey I pushed out earlier in the week, which is gathering insights about how the tech fits in workplaces that are, or will soon be, repopulating. The survey is just a Google form and you should be able to bomb through it in a …
COVID-Safe Touch Taiwan Back After Pandemic-Forced Hiatus April 16, 2021 by Super User I’m starting to get emails from PR folks making me aware of live, in-person trade shows happening in the United States, and seeing lots of social media posts from people saying they’re back to business travel, so it’s interesting to see a country that largely dodged the pandemic continuing to take the abundance of caution …
Next Store In UK Fills Checkout Zone With DV LED Wall April 15, 2021 by Super User This is a Next fashion apparel and furnishings store in Leicester, UK (go Foxes!) that uses a sweeping direct view LED s the backdrop to its checkout counter. I like this because of the scale of the screen. LCDs and OLEDs are gorgeous, but they are either going to be screens hanging on a wall …
