Sport Direct’s Oxford Street Flagship In London Has 100M Pixels Of Digital Display June 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes There are exceptions, but in general terms the one retail vertical that pretty consistently goes to town with screens in stores is sports and recreation. You don’t typically see new builds and renos for clothing, grocery or mass merchandise putting screens all over the place, but that definitely still happens in sports retailing. A lot …
Paving The Path To Smart Retail Media – Building On A Future Foundation June 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes Guest Post: Laura Davis-Taylor, inReality Embracing the store as a valid media channel is finally coming of age, and our industry is at a crossroads: build it on the principles of the past, or pivot to position it for maximum value, profit and cross-channel value. The religious debate at hand is if the model to …
Purina Puts Some 200 Lift And Learn Digital End Caps In US Midwest Groceries June 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an interactive end-cap for big box stores that uses sensors and a touch screen, as well as print graphics, to get shoppers learning more about a line of pet food products. Ther end-caps are in some 200 supermarkets in the US midwest, in a program for Purina put together by the NYC-based interactive …
Vuereal Demos Super-Bright MicroLED Display On Glass, With 85% Transparency June 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes Via DisplayDaily and microled.info Microled.info has a short post up about a demonstration by the Canadian start-up Vuereal of a transparent microLED display that does more than 3,000 nits on brightness measures – enough to cut through bright sunlight. The Waterloo, ON start-up’s prototype display is only smartphone-sized and the use-case for this sort of …
Planar Launches Virtual Studio Initiative, With Fine Pitch LED Supplanting Green Screens For Movie Shoots June 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes Planar is the latest large format display company to sense and go after the rapidly emerging virtual production business – which sees big direct view LED displays replacing green screens on film and broadcast production sets. There is a lot of inertia around this use-case for fine pitch LED because a flat or rounded studio …
Samsung Gets Its Outdoor Terrace Prosumer Signage Displays UL-Certified … For Visibility June 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes Underwriters Laboratories (UL) certifications are a big aspect of consumer and business technology sales and marketing, with integrators, solutions providers and end-users tending to not buy product that doesn’t come with UL safety test certifications. UL certification is VERY common in digital signage, but I have not previously seen the testing and certification applied to something …
Huawei Flagship Stores In EU Using LED Chandeliers As Design Centerpieces June 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes The retail design firm Lonsdale is doing some interesting work with what is described as LED chandeliers in Huawei retail stores in Europe. The Chinese tech manufacturer’s flagship stores in Paris and Berlin have tall LED sculptures as centerpieces in the store design – with custom LED strips, clad with mirrored frames, suspended vertically and …
iiyama Builds Startup nsign’s CMS Into Its Smart Digital Signage Displays June 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Japanese professional display manufacturer iiyama has signed an exclusive agreement with the Barcelona-area start-up nsign.tv to build its CMS software into the displayco’s Android-driven smart screens. The nsign.tv platform features will ship with iiyama digital signage displays sizes ranging from 43 to 86 inches. nsign.tv bills its offer as “a complete Communication Platform (CPaaS) that permits brands to leverage …
Store-filling LED Wall Lights Up Chocolate Ship in Schiphol Airport June 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes Big DV LED video walls in retail are growing increasingly common, but in many cases the visual impact is limited by the sheer size of the store. Here’s a case where the LED is almost as big as the store, so it has a massive visual impact. It is the new Tony’s Chocolonely store post-security …
Tropical Birds Appear In Open Air Bar’s Trees, Using Spinning LED Light Wands June 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes Those madly spinning LED light wand thingies don’t make a lot of sense to me in a digital signage industry that tries hard to not use tech with moving parts. But once in a while I come across an application where they make sense and are effective. There have been a couple of interesting applications …
