Display Week: Sun Vision Display Touts Outdoor LCD Display With Up To 95% Less Energy Usage May 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes This a demo video from the SID Display Week virtual stand for an Illinois company called Sun Vision Display, which is showing an outdoor-rated LCD display that uses reflective LCD technology. The company uses reflective LCD technology to work WITH bright sunlight, instead of cranking up the brightness on a conventional LED backlight array to …
Display Week: DSCC’s Analysis Suggest MicroLED A Niche Product; Manufacturing Challenges Remain May 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes MicroLED has received a ton of buzz in digital signage circles the last 2-3 years because of the proposition of building big seamless video walls that look as good as LCD or OLED. The big barrier to widespread adoption has been cost – driven in part by a need to make production more efficient and …
Display Week: Japan Display Shows Transparent LCD As Variation On COVID Shields May 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes Japan Display or JDI – a specialty LCD display manufacturer owned by Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi – had some of the more impressive tech at Display Week that last time it was an in-person show. This week, the company has a virtual stand at the event and I was intrigued by a link to a …
Display Week: E Ink Shows Its Advances In Color, Motion E-Paper Displays May 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes E Ink has a stand at the virtual SID Display Week, and this video (below) walks through where the company is at with things like showing color and animations. Every year, the product gets a little closer to something that competes favorably with more established technology, most notably LCD. You can see in the video …
Display Week: BenQ Touts Back To Back Transparent OLEDs; Use-Case Kinda Fuzzy May 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Society For Information Display’s Display Week is now live – virtual like most things, still. It is a display nerd fest that is aimed much more at engineers than end-users, and it is a serious challenge for people like me who never even mused about a career in advanced polymers or electrical engineering. I …
Coca-Cola Using LED Ribbon Strips To Drive In-Store Marketing In Moscow Grocery May 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an in-aisle merchandising set-up used by Coca-Cola in a supermarket chain in Russia. It is installed in Perekrestok (Crossroad, in English), in a mall in Moscow’s central business district. I don’t know whose LED ribbons are being used, but the CMS and play-out engine is the Swiss firm SpinetiX. A couple of things: I …
Now Semiconductor Supply Threatened By Spike In Taiwan Covid-19 Cases May 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes One small, positive note about the global semiconductor shortage was how a lot of the supply comes from Taiwan, which has largely kept COVID-19 out of the country and normal operations. Until now. The Taiwan-based tech publication Digitimes reports that island country is now dealing with a spike in case counts, with 335 new infections …
Gartner Forecasts Chip Shortages Will Stretch Well Into 2022 May 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes The research and analysis firm Gartner is forecasting that the worldwide semiconductor shortage that is hitting most tech industries, including digital signage, will persist throughout 2021 and not return to more normal levels until Q2 2022. “The semiconductor shortage will severely disrupt the supply chain and will constrain the production of many electronic equipment types …
Noodles Pop From LED Screen With Anamorphic Creative Project In Beijing May 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a particularly good example of anamorphic three-dimensional creative on a street corner DV LED display. It is above a corner building in a Beijing shopping district, and like many to most of these visuals we’re seeing a lot of these days, the effects work best when viewed from a specific angle. The creative …
The AV Business Started By Al And Mo Marks 75 Years May 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes While the digital signage industry is still quite young, the broader AV has a longer history, with companies like distributor Almo sending out news that it is marking 75 years in business this year. It also cleared up a small question I’ve always had about the corporate name. Turns out the business was founded in …
