BP Using LED Video Walls Inside Kiwi C-Stores, Surrounding Cooler Doors December 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes There have been lots of examples of transparent and regular LCDs acting as cooler doors in grocery and other food and booze retail settings, but I think this is the first time I have seen using LED to surround cooler doors. It’s great. This is a special “Good Mood Food” section set up in select …
New Shanghai Transport Hub Has 1,800 Sq. Meters Of LED … To Start! December 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip Bob Raikes/Display Daily The scale of this LED video wall project in Shanghai is mind-wobbling. A new multi-model mass transport hub in that mega-city – which connects rail, bus and air travel under one very big roof – has some 1,800 sq. meters of fine pitch Absen LED walls. it is the first …
Montreal’s Nummax Marketing LED Digital Posters For Shop Windows December 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes For the last two or three years I have seen countless vendors – mostly from China – marketing LED posters on floor stands as promotional posters for scenarios like retail. My initial concerns were that the things generally ran super hot and didn’t look terribly good unless you stepped well back. My lingering concern is …
8K Displays Use Twice The Power Of 4K Versions: Research December 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes A pair of tech research firms have produced an interesting report on the energy demands of consumer video devices, and produced some insights I am guessing are not widely known – notably that 8K displays are energy hogs. The joint study – called The Sustainable Future of Video Entertainment – was released by InterDigital and …
Publicis Sapient Integrates Its Digital In-Venue – Also Known As Digital Signage – With BrightSign December 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes One of the larger media companies on the planet – Publicis Groupe – has started making marketplace noise about what it calls its digital in-venue platform, which is another way of saying its digital signage platform. The digital business transformation side of Publicis Groupe – called Publicis Sapient – announces a tie-up that sees its …
Sharp NEC Launch New Display Series Supporting Slot-Loaded External PCs December 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes The recently blended entity Sharp NEC Display Solutions has released a new series of digital signage displays that support external, slot-loaded computing modules. The new ME Series accept versions of Intel’s Smart Display Module Small or Large reference designs for mini-PCs that slide into a PCIe slot, and also the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. NEC …
Mood Media Now Owned By Private Equity Firm December 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes Mood Media’s interesting year continues, with news today that the retail experience company has been acquired by a private equity company. The company, whose range of in-store media services includes digital signage and experiential media, went into Chapter 11 this summer and then bounced right out of it in I guess was some sort of …
Faux Window Gives High-end Apartment Hunters An Idea Of Central Park View December 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes Here’s a nice example of a virtual window – a big flat panel display set up in such a way that it looks like a real window. In this case, it is for a very high end residential block in New York, with views out over Central Park. It is is in the sales gallery …
Registration For Next Week’s D=SIGN Happy Hour Mixer Now Live December 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes The registration page is now live for the first-ever D=SIGN Happy Hour, a virtual mixer that puts a cap on next week’s two-day online conference developed by the Digital Signage Federation and AVIXA, and hosted by those associations as well as Sixteen:Nine. The 90-minute event will be done online and there are several meeting rooms, …
LG Announces New Display Lab, Focused On MicroLED November 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes LG has announced some exec level organizational changes in South Korea that are more about things like major appliances, but the electronics giant also announced some future plans for display and innovation tech. “Under the CTO’s Materials & Devices Advanced Research Center will be the New Display Lab,” says the Nov. 26th press release, “which …
