RP Visual Comes Up With Universal Mount For In-Wall Displays February 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes The LA-area AV mounting gear company rp Visual Solutions has done a lot of trade in recent years coming up with custom architectural structures for visual displays, producing brackets and other metalwork that allows video walls to have the location, shape and scale envisioned by architects and their clients. They do big stuff, but the …
Pro Hockey Challenge Uses Fine Pitch LED Screen As The Target For Slapshots. It Survives. February 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes As a diehard Canadian, I am expected to be a rabid hockey fan – but the hard truth is I am barely aware of the NHL. I have somehow managed to retain my Canadian passport despite this. The last NHL season, and the league’s All-Star weekend, all happened, to be totally accurate, sometime in the …
Sony Debuts Massive 100-inch 4K Smart Bravia Display, Plus Little Sister 32″ Version February 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes
How (Not) To Communicate Effectively: Podcast Tips On Industry Press And PR February 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes People who do marketing and public relations in this and related tech sectors might benefit from listening to this interview I did recently with Visix, from its Digital Signage, Done Right podcast. For a change, I was the one fielding questions, and I said what I’d like to talk about. Visix’s Derek Dewitt called the …
NDS Pivots PADS4 From Digital Signage-First To Broader User Experience Platform February 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes We’re starting to see companies in the digital signage sector starting to refine and re-package what they do in ways that gets them out of the box of being just a digital signage provider. On the heels of merging with the smart building platform LCS last year, the Dutch software firm NDS has started calling …
DOOH EV Charging Network Volta Does Special Purpose Merger; Hopes To Raise $600M February 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes Volta Industries, which has a Digital OOH ad network built around electric vehicle charging stations, has announced plans for a merger with a special purpose acquisition company with hopes of generating $600 million for its network buildout. The overall value of the deal is estimated to be $1.4 billion. The deal comes just three weeks …
Seoul Office Block’s LED Windows Become Public Art At Nightfall February 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a relatively small office block somewhere in Seoul that has LEDs embedded in the architectural glass, and transforms into a public art piece once it gets dark. The tech is from a Korean company – G-Smatt. In the US, it is GLAAM America. The proposition with this technology is that this is not …
Shenzhen’s LP Display Marketing DV-LED Posters Hardened Against Damage, Abuse February 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes Email pitches come in day and night from lesser known Chinese DV-LED display manufacturers, showing me their versions of displays and infrastructure. I look at them, but it’s rare when there’s anything new to write about. And really, most of the people e-mailing seem to want me to batch-order product. Press is secondary. But there …
Austrian Shoe Outlet Gets Beyond The Rectangle With Interesting Video Wall February 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a really nice outlet shoe store in Feldkirchen, Austria that has an interesting mosaic video wall at the checkout and service area, and works other displays into the store fixtures. Designed by umdasch Store Makers, the legero united “shoemakers outlet” puts four brands – legero, superfit, VIOS and Think! – under one new …
Cowboys Kit Out Home Stadium With More Than 1,000 New LG Displays February 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes The fit-out is pretty standard concession and concourse stuff, but it’s hard to ignore a digital signage project that involves more than 1,000 screens in one venue. The NFL’s Dallas Cowboys play their games at AT&T Stadium, which upgraded its fan areas with a few truckloads of LG commercial displays. The stadium, says the team’s …
