Giant E-Reader Used As Digital Signage Display At Taiwan BallPark. It’s Awful. October 7, 2020 by Dave Haynes E-paper displays are finding their way into specialty applications that benefit, in particular, from the technology’s long operating life on batteries. Done well, notably what the Slovenian company Visionect does, it can look great. Done poorly, it looks like this … This is a 30-inch Eink display from Kobo – a longtime e-reader competitor to …
Mood Media Quickly Out Of Chapter 11; Looking To BUY Other Companies??? October 7, 2020 by Dave Haynes I wrote back in July about Mood Media heading into the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy process, and kinda thought, well that’s the end of that. Wrong. The company went in and out of that process quickly and is now actively saying it is looking to BUY other companies. Bubbles form on my lips when I read …
Planar Now Offering Lifetime Warranty On DV LED Product Series October 7, 2020 by Dave Haynes Portland-based display manufacturer Planar has started marketing a direct view LED product that comes with a lifetime warranty – though it is officially called the Planar EverCare Lifetime Limited Warranty. The warranty program applies to Planar TVF Series LED video walls that are deployed in North America. Says the PR: Planar EverCare offers: Lifetime Protection: Coverage …
AVIXA Digital Signage Power Hour – Roundtable On LED and MicroLED October 7, 2020 by Dave Haynes The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT The trade association AVIXA has been running a series of Digital Signage Power Hours for the last few months, bringing together industry experts in a roundtable format to talk about a specific topic each time. The most recent one was about LED, and I …
NYC Property Group Uses DV LED To Wrap Around Its Main Sales Meeting Space October 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes Glass conference rooms in open plans sometimes get wrapped in translucent film to add a little privacy, but I don’t think I have seen a meeting space wrapped in a curved, 51-foot direct view LED display wall. This is the Midtown West Marketing Suite, the sales and marketing space for the Brookfield Properties-owned mixed used …
SNA Latest LED Maker To Package “Small” Displays As Plug-And-Play Bundles October 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes SNA Displays is the latest direct-view LED manufacturer to come out with a bundled product that simplifies the idea and execution for big screens, for a reseller and partner channel that doesn’t all eat-sleep-breathe LED. The company’s ASPECT plug-and-play displays come in 16:9 aspect ratio and in four set sizes, from 108-inches to 216 inches. …
MAC Opens Doors To Digitally-Driven Concept Store In Queens, NYC October 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes The beauty brand MAC has launched a new digitally-driven brick and mortar concept store in the gentrifying Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York. The store uses plenty of digital display, including a stacked set of skinny bezel LCDs and what looks like an LED halo over part of the open floor plan. But the …
In-Store Media Start-up Cooler Screens Closes $80M Series C Funding; Expanding Footprint October 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes Chicago-based in-store digital start-up Cooler Screens has closed a $80 million Series C funding round intended to expand the footprint of its product, which to their ever-lasting credit actually aligns with its name. The company does LCD displays in cooler doors in chain grocery and drug stores. I am a crotchety old fan of companies …
Survey Says!: Your Insights Welcomed For 16:9 LED Special Report Update October 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes About three years ago I traveled to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Shenzhen in China to see first-hand the ecosystem and process behind direct view LED, a technology that back then was just starting to gain serious traction in North America and elsewhere.The output was a special report that examined that explained the technology in layman’s …
Singapore Mall Turns On LED-based Light Sculpture October 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes There is a proper architectural term for this shape but I dunno what that term may be, so I will just describe this as a spreading column clad in LED, at a shopping mall in Singapore. The installation gas a round base and then fans out in six, by the looks of it, wings. The …
