Lots Of Kiosk Screens, No Digital Menu Displays, In New All-Digital Times Square Taco Bell April 15, 2021 by Super User Taco Bell opened its first digital-only restaurant in the U.S. yesterday, a New York’s Times Square “Cantina” store that has no order counter or menu boards. The only way to order is ahead of time online or by mobile, or in-store using one of 10 self-order kiosks. Order-ahead customers can use a separate entrance and …
Take The Survey: How Does Digital Signage Fit In Post-COVID Workplaces? April 14, 2021 by Super User Workplace has developed into one of the most active vertical markets for digital signage technology, with screens provided an obvious and relatively easy solution for workforces that don’t open company-wide emails or click their way through to an intranet site. It’s particularly valuable in companies that have few other means of reaching out to and …
LED China Attracting As Many As 50,000 People, 1,200 Vendors, This Week In Shenzhen April 14, 2021 by Super User I’m not entirely sure what the COVID situation is in Shenzhen, China, but there is evidently enough comfort around healthy safety for the organizers of LED China to run a live show this week. The event started today, with 1,200 exhibitors and as many as 50,000 attendees, according to the website. There is an option …
The Interactive Display Ecosystem Sorted And Laid Out In A Single Poster April 13, 2021 by Super User Every so often there are graphics that come out from technology sectors that try to identify and sort a particular ecosystem, grouping sets of company logos by capability or focus. I can’t recall seeing one focused on digital signage, and that may be in part because of the 100s of CMS software companies out there …
DV LED Market Generally Rebounding, But Mainly Just In Chinese Domestic Market April 13, 2021 by Super User The market research firm Omdia has logged predictably mixed results from direct view LED display manufacturers through the COVID-19 pandemic, though there are indications that the sector is generally rebounding. Omdia’s latest quarterly LED market tracker says recovery began in the third quarter and accelerated further in the fourth quarter. In Q4 2020, 336,257 square …
LED Becomes The Walls In Nike’s Dubai Mall Store April 12, 2021 by Super User This is a great example of the whole notion of how direct view LED can be something added to a store design, or in cases like this, how it can be the primary architectural design element. It is a Nike store in the huge Dubai Mall, and is a set of LEDs put in by …
Get Glimpses Of The Big Samsung DV LEDs In New LVCC Loop Transport Stations April 9, 2021 by Super User Here’s a look at the big DV LED screens that have been installed in the transport stations below the new parts of the Las Vegas Convention Center. They’re Samsung displays that, I assume, will be used mainly to promote specific events and main sponsors week to week in what is theoretically a situation that has …
How Outdoor Screens Can Win The Ongoing Fight With The Sun April 9, 2021 by Super User Guest Post: Mark Madigan, MAC Thin Films Putting big LCD screens outside, in direct sunlight, presents a major technical design challenge, but probably not the challenge you have in mind. Making screens bright enough to be viewable in the glare of the sun has long since been sorted out. The real challenge, still, is keeping …
Massive Samsung LED Wall Fills Lobby Wall In LVCC’s Almost-Open West Hall April 8, 2021 by Super User While the pandemic has meant most people in our industry put a stop to pretty regular swings though Las Vegas for trade shows and conferences, that city’s primary convention center has been expanding its footprint and is just about ready to open. When I was last in that city, the LVCC expansion was just in …
Giant Ferris Wheel Embeds Transparent LED For Grand-Scale Nighttime Visuals April 8, 2021 by Super User This is the Eye Of Heihe, one of those giant tourist attraction ferris wheels that seem to be popping up in big cities. In this case it has been kitted out with a huge array of transparent mesh LED. The attraction is in Heihe, on the Chinese side of the China-Russia border north of Beijing. …
