Microsoft Closing Doors On All Of Its Terrific, Digital Display-Filled Stores June 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes Say whatever you want about Microsoft products, but their retail stores have always been fantastic examples of high impact digital signage. The side walls in the stores are all digital and do everything from marketing to instructions. So I am saddened by news this morning that the tech giant has opted to shut the stores …
LG Launching New LED Wall Product That Uses Contactless Connectors June 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Korean business publication Pulse has a post up about a new kind of LED video wall from LG Electronics that connects, shares the signal and syncs between LED cabinets without using physical connectors. The display modules look pretty normal, but the innovation is how they inter-connect when stacked and tiled to make a video …
NEC-Sharp JV Postponed 2-4 Months; COVID-19’s Disruption Cited June 24, 2020 by Dave Haynes That joint venture deal combining NEC Display Solutions with Sharp Corporation is off for at least two months, and it might be mid-fall before the not very inventively named Sharp NEC Display Solutions is a going concern. NEC and Sharp have mutually agreed to delay the launch date, citing the business disruption brought on by …
ViewSonic Branches Into Workplace-Focused All In One LED Video Walls June 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes Taiwan-based display manufacturer ViewSonic has been focused lately on LCD-driven collaboration displays for workplaces, so it’s logical to see it branch into large but packaged-up direct view LED displays – launching a pair of all-in-one video walls intended for office lobbies and boardrooms. There are are 135-inch and 163-inch versions that are designed and engineered …
Rich Ventura Joins Sony To Run B2B Visuals Business; Leaving NEC After Nearly 20 Years June 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes Rich Ventura has for a very long time been front and center in NEC’s commercial display and digital signage business, so it’s a pretty big news that he has left that company after almost 20 years to sign on as Vice President of B2B for Sony’s Imaging Products and Solutions Professional Division. That basically means …
Giant Robotic “3D” LED Board Lights Up In Kuala Lumpur June 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes There are still media companies and property owners enchanted by the sight of robotic 3D LED displays – even if a version use by one of the world’s biggest brands in the epicenter of the world’s biggest media market was something of a technical disaster. A Malaysian OOH media company has made one of the …
Adapt Or Perish – 2020 Has Changed The Digital Signage Business June 19, 2020 by Dave Haynes If there is anything clear about the future for the digital signage system, it’s that it will be different. Some of the vertical markets that have seen the most activity have been changed, probably forever, by the social changes brought on by COVID-19. Key verticals like workplace communications, retail and food services are all going …
Cinema Media Network Brings Haptics-Driven, Touchless Screens Into Moviehouses June 18, 2020 by Dave Haynes A digital OOH media network has partnered with a company that has a very different take on touchless technology for information and advertising screens in the lobbies of cinemas. CEN Media Group and Ultraleap have announced a deal that will see units installed in 10 cinemas – using technologies mashed-up and harmonized when two companies …
A Sanitizer Station That’s Also A Messaging Screen, Fever Sensor, People Counter, And … June 18, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Dubai-based digital signage solutions provider Connectiv have taken one of those hybrid sanitizer dispenser/information screens from China and added a lot more capability. Connectiv juiced up what is otherwise becoming a commodity item by adding presence detection, fever screening and people counting for building capacity guidelines. The cameras have been added on to something …
LG Gets Serious About Direct View LED With Big Lineup Expansion, Indoor And Out June 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes LG’s US Business Solutions unit is getting very serious about LED – both indoor and outdoor. The Korean display giant was kind of late to the direct view LED party – with Samsung, NEC and Philips all showing LED product for the last few years – but this week it announced more than three dozen …
