Shenzhen’s CEOLED Display Makes Pitch For A 55-Inch Transparent OLED Kiosk April 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Shenzhen specialty firm CEOLED Display has made its main focus the hard slog of pushing pricey transparent OLED displays in a variety of configurations as commercial screen alternatives to more conventional and less costly product types like LCD. Now it has started marketing a transparent OLED-based kiosk with a 55-inch screen. The push on …
How Pro AV Is Trying To Navigate All The Tariffs Uncertainty: AVIXA Experts April 17, 2025 by Dave Haynes The pro AV trade association AVIXA has a market intelligence team that steadily looks at the U.S. and global business from key angles like growth and overall health, as well as the impacts of factors like supply chain (huge during the COVID era) and most recently, tariffs. They do a video podcast called Exceptional Insights, …
Free Futuresource Analysis Looks At Industry Perspective, Workarounds For Current Tariffs Turmoil April 16, 2025 by Dave Haynes The research firm Futuresource Consulting has pro AV as a main focus and has, predictably, started to weigh in on the pinballing global tariffs situation – publishing a complementary bulletin called “Tariff Reflections on the Road” that reflects what analysts are hearing from makers and buyers at industry events like NAB. Among the interesting notes …
AUO Showcasing New Kind Of Energy-Sipping LCD, And Two-Sided Transparent MicroLED, At Touch Taiwan April 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes Probably the biggest vendor at Touch Taiwan this week in Guess Where is AUO, the giant white-label display manufacturer that has its main office about an hour south of Taipei. The company has pushed out an advancer piece talking about stand highlights, and the two that seem most interesting involve a new kind of energy-sipping …
Realfiction, PlayNitride Unveiling New Kind Of Glasses-Free 3D Display Based Around MicroLED April 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes Touch Taiwan starts tomorrow in Taipei and among the announcements advancing manufacturers’ showcases is one involving a tie-up between a domestic company, PlayNitride, and Danish specialty display company Realfiction, for a new kind of glasses-free 3D display that uses MicroLED. What is touted as the world’s first MicroLED-based 3D display is a 9-inch unit that …
Chinese TVs Not Part Of Relaxed Electronics Tariffs, But Flat Panels Appear To Be Exempted: Counterpoint April 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes Just to muddy the supply chain outlook a bit more, a new post by display supply chain experts Counterpoint Research notes that the tariffs on electronics that were relaxed this weekend exclude TVs – so if you were planning to by a big ole Hisense for watching, I dunno, the NHL playoffs, they’ll soon cost …
The Digital Signage Ecosystem Has At Least 1,200 Companies, New Directory Suggests April 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes I have gone down the path two or three times of trying to build up a database of all of the companies in the digital signage ecosystem, starting with grand plans but then getting distracted and leaving the things dormant. So I was pleased and impressed to read of a directory with some 1,200 validated …
Big Interactive POS In Grocery Aisle Takes Place Of Merchandised Items, Because Goods Are Locked Up Elsewhere April 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes I was surprised, when stumbling across a retail trade publication story about in-store screens, that a touchscreen-embedded point of sale print piece was taking up such a big chunk of prime merchandising space on a grocery shelf … until I read on and learned it was all about reducing theft on high-value goods. The British …
Punitive US Tariffs On China-Origin Electronics Off For 90 Days … Or Are They??? April 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes It LOOKS like – ALL CAPS on LOOKS because as we’ve seen this is a moving target and the guy behind all this is fond of ALL CAPS – the digital signage and pro AV industries have been given a huge break as word broke that crippling US tariffs on Chinese imports to that market …
Tik Tok Video: Small Town Businesses Use Road Signs To Playfully Taunt Each Other April 11, 2025 by Dave Haynes Some Friday fun to take your mind off all the nuttiness for a minute or two … This is a bit dated but great – a playful sign war in a small Missouri town that had various businesses needling each other or just adding some color. The first signs were analog but operators with outdoor …
