IDtechEx Report Takes Deep Dive On MicroLED; Full Report Is $6K, But Here’s Exec Summary April 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Lots Of Kiosk Screens, No Digital Menu Displays, In New All-Digital Times Square Taco Bell April 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
