LG To Market New Line Of Premium LCDs As QNEDs January 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes Technology marketers have a habit of playing a bit fast and loose with terminology, in an effort to gain a mindshare edge with buyers, I suppose. But their efforts also contribute to confusion. In the context of the display and signage industry, we’ve seen LCD displays called LED TVs, when they were LCDs with LED …
Acquisitive Spectrio Is Itself Acquired By Different PE Firm December 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes Tampa-based solutions provider Spectrio had seemingly been going down the well-established path pf growing through acquisition, but on the heels of several buys it has made, the company has itself been acquired by a private equity firm. NYC-based The Jordan Company (TJC) announced that what I guess is a fund in its portfolio – the …
Sony Teases Update To Its Crystal LED Display; Inc. Bravia TV Version December 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes Sony appears poised to announce a new, updated version of its much-celebrated Crystal LED video wall – the first mainstream commercial display manufacturer to ship a product based on microLED. It was way ahead of its time a few years ago, when Sony first started showing Crystal LED at trade shows. But a handful of …
Happy Holidays! 16:9 (Probably) Off For A Few Days December 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes It was around the middle of last week when the Happy Holidays emails from companies started coming in at pace, and conversely the daily torrent of news and PR pitch emails I get started to slow. It is Monday morning, with Christmas on Friday, and there is not a lot shaking, so don’t expect many …
Video: Fantastic Application Of In-Store Digital And Experience At Warsaw Concept Store December 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a video that walks viewers through the pretty fantastic digital retailing set-up for the Warsaw concept and flagship store of the apparel retailing chain Modivo. I wrote about this a few weeks ago, but only had images to work off. The store is HEAVILY driven by digital, from LED on the store’s mall …
The 2020 Telecine Holiday Video Is Out December 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes The annual, always-loopy holiday video is out from my friends at Telecine, the longtime digital signage solutions provider in Montreal. The company does a special video each December to end the year, and it is reliably nutty. This one involves a German/Austrian/something psychoanalyst Dr. Frawed, acted by Telecine’s Justin Lachovsky, who did not miss his …
DOOH Start-ups Partner On Ad Network Creating Projected Billboards In Windows December 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes From the everything old is new again file … Many, many years ago there were a few media companies leasing distressed real estate in malls and on busy streetscapes to create what you might call pop-up, projection-driven billboards using window glass. You’d see media campaigns replace windows that were papered-over, the spaces waiting to be …
Lamar, FEMA Partner On Public Alerts, Warnings For 1,000s Of Digital Billboards Across U.S. December 16, 2020 by Dave Haynes The U.S. government’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has put together a partnership with the big OOH/DOOH media company Lamar Advertising Company to show emergency alerts on its many digital billboards. The emergency alerts, provided through FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS), will be displayed on select Lamar digital billboards throughout the country. …
LED Is The Primary Architectural Design Feature In This Shanghai Coach Store December 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a new immersive retailing store in Shanghai, run by the handbag and accessories brand Coach. Details are limited, but what I found on Linkedin says this is Coach’s first immersive digital store, in Shanghai IAPM, which is an upscale mall. Coach’s VP for Visual Experience says on Linkedin that “customers can change the …
Bayern Munich Using AR Selfie Screen To Bridge Lack Of Fan Contact Caused By COVID-19 December 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes The legendary German pro football club FC Bayern Munich opened a new flagship store in central Munich, with a signature interactive feature an AR-driven display that allows fans to take virtual selfies with their favorite players. The feature is particularly valuable right now because the Bundesliga, like most professional sports leagues, are playing games in …
