Get Glimpses Of The Big Samsung DV LEDs In New LVCC Loop Transport Stations April 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 February 5, 2026April 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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. …
Wallboard Shows Why On-Demand Video Product Demos Make Sense April 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes I pretty much write for a living, but in the context of the industry I cover, I’m usually much happier when a vendor shows me what a product or services does, as opposed to making me read about it. So I think a new YouTube demo series put out by the Hungarian/American CMS company Wallboard …
Jakarta LED Billboard Mimics Surroundings To Create 3D Visuals April 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes There have been several videos relayed here in the last couple of years, showing impressive anamorphic 3D visuals on outdoor digital ad boards. But they’ve all been on displays that wrap around a 90-degree corner, and they only tend to show the “effect” from a certain, narrow angle. This is another take at anamorphic, on …
Ladorian, inReality Partner On Data-Driven Personalized Messaging For In-Store Screens April 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes That feeling you sometimes get online – with served ads that seem to know your recent, personalized shopping interests – is now finding its way into physical stores through tie-ups like a new one between a pair of digital signage-focused tech firms. Madrid-based Ladorian, which has a software solution specializing in personalized data-driven messaging in …
New CDC Guidance Reinforces Low Risk Of Picking Up COVID From Touching Things, Like Screens April 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has issued new guidance on the ubiquitous sight of staffers in retail, mass transport and elsewhere spraying and wiping down surfaces with disinfectant, or even doing something akin to fogging a room. The short version is that all this activity may have the theatrical impact of showing the venue …
Rangers Ballpark Concessions Cut Over To Self-Service Ordering April 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes Stadium Tech Report has a post up on its excellent site about how food concessions are being handled at the home stadium of baseball’s Texas Rangers, which is a little terrifyingly open to full capacity despite the ongoing pandemic. The stadium – Globe Life Field – is using a pile of interactive self-service ordering screens, …
Samsung Marketing LED Display Bundle Aimed At Analog Sign And Printing Ecosystem April 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes Numerous display manufacturers have introduced bundled direct view LED solutions as a way of simplifying the specification and selling of technology that remains unfamiliar to a lot of the pro AV sector. Samsung is borrowing on that notion with a display bundle aimed at the traditional sign sector, highlighting an outdoor solution that “all-in-one display …
