Research: Menu Board Testing Shows Differences Images And Motion Make On Sales September 16, 2019 by Super User Atlanta-based High Street Collective has now released the results of a first round of testing at a local store that doubles as a “Living Retail Lab” for digital initiatives. The owner of Citizen Supply, located inside Atlanta’s Ponce City Market, built a bar and lounge inside his store in early 2019 and called it Likewise, …
TCL Is Latest Display Maker Showing Premium MicroLED Screens September 16, 2019 by Super User The Chinese electronics manufacturer TCL has joined the list of display makers working on microLED displays – showing a 132-inch diagonal LED TV at last week’s IFA trade show, which you can think of as a European CES. TCL’s Cinema Wall is made with 24 million individually controlled LEDs, has a 1,500 nits maximum brightness …
Clever Packaging And Age-Old Illusion Delivers Video Message In Wine Bottle September 16, 2019 by Super User This is not really a digital signage application, but certainly it could be done as such for visual merchandising. The now-retired founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group sent a gift around to staffers to mark the company’s 20th anniversary. The gift was a bottle of wine, but it came with a lot of packaging …
Linq Casino In Las Vegas Switches On Visualized Data Feast Dubbed Dataland September 13, 2019 by Super User Hat Tip John Baggott of ComQi for pointing me at this … The Linq Casino on the Las Vegas Strip added a pile of new displays, custom content and interactive experiences in a refresh unveiled in June. I stayed there back in March (budget-conscious trip) and none of this was in place, but you could …
New Research Suggests Projector Market Booming September 13, 2019 by Super User I don’t follow the projector market very carefully, but have assumed that business is, at best, poking along because of the increasing large scale of LCD displays and the rise of super fine-pitch LED. But new research suggests the front projector market is doing just fine, thank you very much. PMA Research’s latest quarterly report …
Barco Takes 5% Position In Chinese LED Giant Unilumin Via Partnership Deal September 12, 2019 by Super User Belgium’s Barco has taken a 5% position in Chinese direct view LED giant Unilumin, as part of a new “strategic collaboration.” The partnership announced at Barco’s end gives the European company access to a “cost-competitive supply of high-quality LED display components, that allows broader penetration in its core markets with differentiated Barco LED visualization hardware …
Marshall Thompson On Signet’s Laser Focus On Workplace Communications And Experience Centers September 11, 2019 by Super User Workplace communications have developed into a very active, very big vertical for a lot of companies across the digital signage ecosystem – but most of their activity has involved screens positioned around the white collar and, increasingly, blue collar workspaces. For most companies, workplaces is A vertical. For Signet, it is THE vertical, and the …
Clever AR-To-Digital Signage Mash-Up Lets Fans Pose With NFL Pros September 10, 2019 by Super User I was asked recently, for a podcast, where I thought augmented reality fit with digital signage, and I suggested it might often be a better fit to see AR through a big screen, rather than the little ones in our hands, stuck in front of our faces. Here’s a fantastic example of that, introduced at …
LG Packages Up A 1.5mm LED As A Single Monster Screen September 10, 2019 by Super User In the last year or so I have seen numerous smaller direct-view LED manufacturers package up their products in specifically defined sizes, and now the big guys like LG are doing the same. The Korean electronics giant has announced the LAA015F display – a 130-inch diagonal 1.5mm pitch all-in-one screen seemingly aimed at the corporate …
Spokane’s Airport Hangs An LED Chandelier September 5, 2019 by Super User This is an LED chandelier in the rotunda of one of the main post-security concourses at Spokane International Airport in eastern Washington state. It’s part of modernization work at the airport, and includes a big welcome LED wall and tiled LCDs at airline counters. The skinny LEDs are from NanoLumens.
