Leyard Turns On Vast “MicroLED” Video Wall In Chinese EnergyCo Control Room January 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes The giant Chinese LED display manufacturer Leyard has started manufacturing, shipping and installing large format what it calls microLED displays – lighting up a vast wall in a Chinese utility company’s control room. The wall-filling display was activated on Dec. 31, 2020 for CHN ENERGY. That company is based in Beijing, but it is huge, …
TCL Unveils Next-Gen Super-Thin, High-Contrast Displays Using MiniLED For CES January 11, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Chinese electronics firm TCL is very much a consumer-driven company, but what happens with TVs often finds its way to commercial display design. It is CES this week and the firm announced a range of new products, including new miniLED-based TVs that show where that technology best fits on the commercial side of displays. …
Samsung Debuts 110-Inch MicroLED TV, With 4Vue, For CES 2021 January 11, 2021 by Dave Haynes CES 2021 is on, but it is virtual, so there’s no jammed trade show in Las Vegas and we will all likely see far fewer broadcast news stories about the buzzworthy, crazy or purpose-deficient gadgets being launched annually at this circus. The show is indeed on, though, and the big tech companies are still using …
NBA’s Cavs Add 750+ Screens To Updated Home Venue January 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, where the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers plays its games in normal times, recently did a digital facelift that added more than 750 displays around the sports and entertainment venue – from the concession areas to behind the scenes in the locker rooms. The 25-year-old venue contracted local area AV integrator Crescent Digital …
Ground-Level LED Billboard Bisected By Staircase Leading Into NJ Mega-Mall January 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting use of outdoor direct view LED – a billboard-sized display at ground level that bisects a wide entry staircase. It just went in at the American Dream mega-mall in the New Jersey Meadowlands area, near New York City. As is obvious from the pic, the manufacturer is SNA Displays, which also …
Sony Launches Two Next-Gen Crystal LED Video Wall Products January 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes Sony Electronics has announced the next generation of its Crystal LED video wall display series – the technology that gained all the attention when Sony first launched Crystal LED. The original Crystal LED was the industry’s first look at large format microLED video walls, and the new versions, from what I am hearing, are microLED-ish …
10 Times Square Adds 4-Board LED Array At High-Traffic NYC Corner January 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of real estate owners who live the “Location Location Location” mantra turning primo addresses into media sites: this one in NYC Times Square. There is now a four-screen outdoor LED array cladding the new Yard House restaurant at the corner of 41st St. and 7th Ave. 10 Times Square is owned and managed by L.H. Charney Associates, …
NYC’s New Moynihan Train Hall Features 1,700 SF Of 4mm LED January 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Moynihan Train Hall opened for passengers last week in midtown New York City – an expanded, much more open and welcoming section of NYC Penn Station. Among the big visual features in open atrium passenger hall is a giant, old school analog clock and some 1,700 sq. feet of 4mm direct view LED. The …
Capital Networks’ Founder Trainor Fully Retires January 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes Bil Trainor sent me a nice note in recent days letting me know he was finally, totally, 100% retired from Capital Networks, the broadcast and digital signage software company he started some 30 years ago. “December 31st was my last day with Capital Networks,” he wrote in a note. “Since planning, launching and operating it has …
Etisalat’s Dubai Mall Store Is Floor To Ceiling LED January 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes And we’re back, kinda sorta gradually … Happy 2021! The wireless carrier Etisalat is based in the United Arab Emirates, and is the case with many or most high visibility efforts in Dubai, the company’s new flagship store in the Dubai Mall is seriously over the top with digital displays. It appears the store has …
