Realfiction, PlayNitride Unveiling New Kind Of Glasses-Free 3D Display Based Around MicroLED April 15, 2025 by Super User Touch Taiwan starts tomorrow in Taipei and among the announcements advancing manufacturers’ showcases is one involving a tie-up between a domestic company, PlayNitride, and Danish specialty display company Realfiction, for a new kind of glasses-free 3D display that uses MicroLED. What is touted as the world’s first MicroLED-based 3D display is a 9-inch unit that …
Chinese TVs Not Part Of Relaxed Electronics Tariffs, But Flat Panels Appear To Be Exempted: Counterpoint April 14, 2025 by Super User Just to muddy the supply chain outlook a bit more, a new post by display supply chain experts Counterpoint Research notes that the tariffs on electronics that were relaxed this weekend exclude TVs – so if you were planning to by a big ole Hisense for watching, I dunno, the NHL playoffs, they’ll soon cost …
The Digital Signage Ecosystem Has At Least 1,200 Companies, New Directory Suggests April 14, 2025 by Super User I have gone down the path two or three times of trying to build up a database of all of the companies in the digital signage ecosystem, starting with grand plans but then getting distracted and leaving the things dormant. So I was pleased and impressed to read of a directory with some 1,200 validated …
Big Interactive POS In Grocery Aisle Takes Place Of Merchandised Items, Because Goods Are Locked Up Elsewhere April 14, 2025 by Super User I was surprised, when stumbling across a retail trade publication story about in-store screens, that a touchscreen-embedded point of sale print piece was taking up such a big chunk of prime merchandising space on a grocery shelf … until I read on and learned it was all about reducing theft on high-value goods. The British …
Punitive US Tariffs On China-Origin Electronics Off For 90 Days … Or Are They??? April 14, 2025 by Super User It LOOKS like – ALL CAPS on LOOKS because as we’ve seen this is a moving target and the guy behind all this is fond of ALL CAPS – the digital signage and pro AV industries have been given a huge break as word broke that crippling US tariffs on Chinese imports to that market …
Tik Tok Video: Small Town Businesses Use Road Signs To Playfully Taunt Each Other April 11, 2025 by Super User Some Friday fun to take your mind off all the nuttiness for a minute or two … This is a bit dated but great – a playful sign war in a small Missouri town that had various businesses needling each other or just adding some color. The first signs were analog but operators with outdoor …
Research: OLED Display Sales Have Surged (Pre-Tariffs), But MiniLED-Lit LCD Sales Even Hotter April 11, 2025 by Super User Setting aside tariffs (somehow), here’s a look at the state of OLED TV shipments pre-tariffs chaos from the research firm Omdia – which suggests consumers are increasingly big on the skinny and vivid flat panels. The company’s latest monthly TV shipment tracking data shows 19.2% year-on-year growth in global OLED shipments, as of February 2025. …
Tariffs Analysis: Higher Prices, Lower Sales Volumes And Lots Of Uncertainty April 11, 2025 by Super User Very arguably, about the only certainty right now with the supply chain and costs for the electronics that are fundamental to digital signage deployments is that there is no certainty. While displays, PCs and other gear are coming from all over the place, a lot of the components originate in China – which as I …
NowSignage Powering Retail Media Network Across UK-based Superdrug Chain April 10, 2025 by Super User UK-based CMS provider NowSignage and its partners have the green light now to talk about how an aggregated solution including software will help drive some 500 screens in a retail media network to be rolled out across Superdrug stores up and down that collection of countries. CEO Nick Johnson and I chatted at ISE about …
Digital Signage Summit Europe Releases First Look At Three-Day Program For Munich April 9, 2025 by Super User My friends at the German consulting, events and publishing firm invidis have pushed out more details on the 2025 version of the excellent Digital Signage Summit Europe it runs each year in Munich. The event is back at the Hilton Munich Airport from May 21 to 23, 2025 – this year with a full three-day program. …
