PPDS Gets A Deployment Of Its Lovely, Pricey E Ink Tableaux Screens … But Just Four Units November 26, 2024 by Super User Color e-paper is great tech, but prices likely have to come down by at least half – or more – before the industry is likely to see broad adoption. A good case in point is an announcement from PPDS (aka Philips) announcing a deployment of its E Ink-based Philips Tableaux displays at a historic restaurant and …
Trump Plans To Impose New Tariffs On Imported Electronics Could Chill US Pro AV Sector November 26, 2024 by Florian Rotberg Guest post: Florian Rotberg, Invidis Despite the current USMCA free trade agreement that Donald Trump signed with Canada and Mexico during his first term in office, the president-elect plans to impose new tariffs of 25 percent on all imports from Mexico and Canada, and an additional 10 percent on all imports from China. The newly-announced …
Tech That Pours Transistor-Filled Inks On MicroLEDs Touted As Way To Realize Mass Market Pricing November 26, 2024 by Super User A UK chemicals company is teaming up with one of the world’s largest display manufacturers to co-develop a new kind of transparent display that would be made, at least in theory, without much of the costs and complexity of current microLED manufacturing. Manchester-based Smartkem suggests that displays built by its partner, Taiwanese manufacturing AUO, would …
CAPEX Spending By Display Manufacturers Surpasses $7B This Year; On Both LCD And OLED November 25, 2024 by Super User One indicator of the relative health of the display tech sector would be how much manufacturers are spending on equipment, and by that measure, the sector looks quite robust. But a 47% jump in spending in 2024 comes immediately on the heels of big dips in investment the previous year. The research and consulting firm …
Digital Signage Business Climate Index For Q3 Finds Big Players Growing While Smaller Firms May Be Struggling November 22, 2024 by Super User German language content partners invidis have released the findings of its latest quarterly Business Climate Index, suggesting market sentiment is improving, even though actual sales are just poking along. The Q3 invidis Digital Signage Business Climate Index (DBCI) shows increasing optimism among industry participants. The status quo index rose from 29.29 to 42.89 in Q3, …
LG Re-Org Puts Commercial Displays In Same Business Tent As Company’s Media And Entertainment Business November 22, 2024 by Super User LG Electronics has announced a pile of organizational changes and appointments it says its built around the Korean company’s mid- to long-term strategy, restructuring the business into four companies and putting commercial displays under the umbrella of Media Entertainment Solutions. The business units are Home Appliance Solution (HS) Company, the Media Entertainment Solution (MS) Company, …
Free Download: The 10 Most Important Questions To Ask When Sourcing Digital Signage CMS Software November 19, 2024 by Super User German language content partner invidis has developed a free download PDF guide to choosing the optimal CMS software, and unlike some other publications (making a throat-clearing sound here) with such “guides” or lists, this one isn’t just a round-up of companies that happen to also be advertisers in those publications. invidis has developed a process …
Parking Lot Management Platform Adds Real-Time Displays To Solution Stack November 18, 2024 by Super User Here’s another example of digital signage that’s put in place for no other reason than improving a process for the user and operator – networked displays in parking garage that are end-points in a cloud-based parking management system. I call it boring signage and that is a term of endearment, just like boring signage at …
360-Degree LED Column, 10M-High Dynamic Windows At New Public Media Project In Taipei November 15, 2024 by Super User Taipei now has an LED-driven public video installation that has some similarities to Outernet London, though not nearly at the same scale. Taipei Lumitree is a public-accessible media installation at the base of one of the many modern buildings in the same district as the Taipei 101 skyscraper. It has 254 square meters of LED …
LED Die Maker Cree Launches Product It Says Bridges Gap Between Old-School And New Display Tech November 13, 2024 by Super User The American LED die manufacturer Cree has launched a new product for outdoor displays that it says bridges a gap between old-school through-hole LED and much newer surface-mounted device (SMD) display technologies. Cree LED says its new CV28D LEDs with what it calls “FusionBeam Technology provides a big boost in resolution and image quality and …
