InfoComm 2019 Day One: Even The Projector Companies Are Going LED June 13, 2019 by Super User You know direct view LED is catching on in a big way with the pro AV crowd when companies known for projectors have big LED displays as focal points of booths. That was the case at InfoComm with Optoma and with Digital Projection, which has, umm, projection in its name. The latter has had LED …
Ian Dallimore On Growing Digital Inside Lamar Advertising June 12, 2019 by Super User In the out of home space, Lamar Advertising is huge. The Baton Rouge-based media company is in 160 metro areas in the US, and has more than 3,300 roadside digital billboards. The company is steadily adding more digital, notably in environments like airports. Lamar just lit up an impressive and expensive network inside the baggage …
LG Formally Launches Transparent OLED For US Market June 11, 2019 by Super User It appears LG’s next big thing to be showcased at InfoComm this week will be quite familiar to much of that show’s pro AV crowd. Transparent OLED has been around for several years, and definitely demo’d at trade show booths, but LG Business Solutions says it is officially launching its commercial, 55-inch digital signage display …
SiliconCore Joins Ranks Of LED Displaycos With Ruggedized Surfaces June 11, 2019 by Super User The high-end fine-pitch LED manufacturer SiliconCore is the latest firm to announce a product that adds a coating to protect fragile LED chips. The company’s InfoComm presence will include displays that use its LISA technology – “a proprietary surface protection layer that guard the LEDs from contact (or impact) damage, without compromising the brightness or image …
Orlando-Bound: InfoComm 2019’s Halls Opens Wednesday, And 16:9 Is There June 10, 2019 by Super User It is InfoComm week, and this year the show is in Orlando once again, as it is every second year. The weather forecast says high 80s, high humidity and thunderstorms – so if you venture outdoors you are going to be soaked either by perspiration or passing storms. Always fun! I am heading down first …
Two Examples Of Low Rez LED Displays That Are More Mood Than Message June 7, 2019 by Super User Here’s a couple of examples of low-resolution LED display applications that use blend with fabric or film to create soft, diffused visuals that are meant as motion backdrops or accents. The first is a fixture by the NYC printing company Duggal, which has a digital wing and created an interesting spin-out product called . The …
DSF Toronto’s Breakfast Event Pulls Some 60 Attendees For Digital In Dining June 6, 2019 by Super User The Toronto chapter of the Digital Signage Federation had its second breakfast event this morning, focused on Digital In Dining. Here’s the word from organizer and fellow DSF board member Kelly Smith: We had a fantastic attendance (more than 60 people in the room), and the feedback I received afterwards was overwhelmingly positive. The topic, …
Atlanta’s High Street Collective Launches Living Retail Lab (And It Has A Bar!) June 6, 2019 by Super User The retail innovation consultancy HighStreet Collective has launched what it calls a Living Retail Lab, a unique project inside a city market in High Street’s hometown of Atlanta. The boutique consultancy has also formalized a partnership with NEC, to use that company’s retail-centric intelligence analytics platform, called ALP, at the lab. Instead of a pure lab …
Deloitte’s IoT Dashboard Video Wall Logs What’s Happening In Toronto Offices June 6, 2019 by Super User Following up on that post about seeing a big BMO LED wall while on a layover, I also popped by the lobby of consulting giant Deloitte’s main Toronto office to see a video wall in its reception area that a friend said was interesting. The wall on the mezzanine level, where visitors check in, shows …
Giant Curved LED Wall Fills Toronto BMO Branch June 6, 2019 by Super User I forgot when I had a 12-hour (planned) layover in Toronto a few weeks ago that I took a little time to check out some digital signage installs I had heard about, but not seen. Looking for a photo reminded me. This is a branch of the Bank of Montreal, street-level at the Manulife Centre …
