Pro-AV Business Showing Positive Indicators Despite Tariffs-Driven Uncertainties: AVIXA May 12, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Pro-AV business index generated month to month by trade association AVIXA’s market intelligence people suggests despite all the nutty uncertainty surrounding business conditions in the United States, the numbers for the industry actually look OK, at least so far. The May report, looking at April numbers and Q1, suggest that while tariff uncertainty continues …
Tabletop Tent Cards Go Digital With Viewneo’s Soon-To-Launch Dinio E-Paper Solution May 8, 2025 by Dave Haynes The German digital signage solutions firm viewneo has started previewing an interesting product that is a contemporary spin on the idea of using small form factor displays in in dining establishments as dynamic table tent cards – but with color e-paper instead of energy-hungry LCDs. CEO Manfred Ludtke tells me members of his Dusseldorf-based team …
10,500 Drones Light Up Vietnam Skyline In Sync’d Show, But There Were Issues … May 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes I’m not sure drone shows belong in the digital signage bucket, but I’m also not sure anyone should care about that. What is not subject to much debate is that synchronized swarms of drones can put on very large and impressive shows that put messaging up at epic scale in public places. Consider this show …
SID’s Display Week Expected To Highlight Advances In MicroLED, Color E-Paper: Futuresource May 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes The research firm Futuresource Consulting has pushed out a piece advancing display technologies it expects to see demonstrated at next week’s Society for Information Display event in San Jose, CA. The advancer, by Principal Consultant Ted Romanowitz, drafts off what he saw at Touch Taiwan, in Guess Where. As happens these days, much of the …
Mimo Shifts Product Manufacturing To Korea, Taiwan For Trade Compliance And Hedge Against Trade Volatility May 2, 2025 by Dave Haynes When I was in Taiwan for a week last fall, just days before the U.S. election, the subject of TAA compliance came up repeatedly – based on vendors looking for ways to ensure they could sell finished products to U.S. government agencies. The Trade Agreements Act, briefly, requires that products sold to the U.S. government …
Dynamic Content Without Coding: Digichief Launches Mercury Platform May 1, 2025 by Dave Haynes Lexington, KY-based Digichief has broadened its digital signage content solutions portfolio with what it calls the Digichief Mercury Content Platform, an in-house tool that uses flexible browser technologies like HTML5 to allow solutions providers and end-users to highly customize their automated on-screen content. This intuitive platform, says Digichief, allows users to choose from a library …
SF Giant’s Jumbo Coke Bottle In Ballpark Outfield Adds LED Display To Animate Label April 25, 2025 by Dave Haynes Mitsubishi used to be one of the big dogs in the North American outdoor LED display business, but the flood of competition that started coming into the market by the mid to late 2010s has lessened its prominence. However, it is still out there and still winning some high-profile projects for its Diamond Vision displays. …
German Apparel Retail Fills Flagship Store Window With Transparent LED April 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes While there are lots of vendors now making or reselling someone else’s near-transparent LED products, they’ve seemingly been more evident at trade shows than out in the real world. However, that also used to be the case with conventional direct view LED displays, which are now EVERYWHERE. So it is probably more a function of …
E Ink’s Premium, Richer-Color Spectra 6 Displays Coming By End Of Year As 75-Inch Poster Replacements April 22, 2025 by Dave Haynes E-paper manufacturer E Ink has now formally announced a large form-factor version of its premium color digital poster product – a 75-inch Spectra 6 display module that will be available as test samples to its third-party partners before the end of 2025. The Taiwan-based manufacturer had started showing, through partners like DynaScan, a 75-inch Kaleido …
SID Making Its Annual Display Nerd Fest More Visit-Friendly For Less Technical Attendees April 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Society For Information Display’s annual DisplayWeek conference and exhibit hall is really good event for anyone interested in seeing what’s in the works for pro display in three to five years, or longer, but it can be a bit bewildering for people who don’t have degrees in electrical engineering. The display nerd fest – …
