Ultravision Sues 37 LED Companies – Including U.S. Firms – For Patent Infringement April 2, 2018 by Super User The Dallas-based LED display and lighting products company Ultravision has filed a patent infringement complaint at the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), looking to get 37 companies barred from importing, selling or distributing what Ultravision considers infringing LED display products. Interestingly, the companies are NOT all China-based, with the named companies including Samsung, Barco from …
DSE 2018 – Day One Impressions March 29, 2018 by Super User The first day on the Digital Signage Expo trade show floor is in the can. The hall looked good and there at least seemed to be healthy-sized crowds. I definitely wasn’t having to fight my way through hordes, but the aisles all had decent traffic. The show is upstairs in a different south hall, with …
STRATACACHE Buys X2O Media From Barco March 28, 2018 by Super User STRATACACHE has acquired Montreal CMS software shop X20 Media from the Belgian visual solutions firm Barco, four years after Barco bought the company in what at least some observers (like me) thought was a head-scratcher. CEO Chris Riegel says he believes he is picking up a diamond in the rough, and wants to grow that …
16:9 Podcasts – Stan Richter On How SignageOS Bridges CMS Platforms With Different Hardware March 28, 2018 by Super User One of the big challenges on the technology side of digital signage is keeping up with all of the emerging hardware and software options on the market. It used to be a reasonably simple case of developing software in one OS or another and getting it running on a PC. But now there are Android …
NEC, BrightSign Pair Up On New Bundled Offer March 27, 2018 by Super User In what seems like a pretty smart move, among several lately, BrightSign has paired up with yet another tech company in the digital signage ecosystem to make its little purple media players part of the offer and solution. NEC Display Solutions of America will be offering a bundled signage solution involving an NEC commercial grade …
Report From ISA: Little Sign Of Digital Signage At Sign Industry’s Big Show, But Hints Of An Uptick March 23, 2018 by Jim Nista Guest Post: Jim Nista, Insteo Sign Expo, the International Sign Association’s (ISA) big annual trade show, is underway in Orlando. The ISA show focuses on the print and outdoor sign industry, with large format printers, CNC machines, light pole flags, architectural signage, and large outdoor LED. There’s even a section for bucket trucks for outdoor …
Looking At LED At DSE 2018? Here’s Your Total Guide … March 23, 2018 by Super User There’s a lot to see at Digital Signage Expo this year, and there will be a lot of attention paid to the display manufacturers showing fine pitch LED tech. There’s a lot going on in that sector, and weighing selection options on price and how they look is not the path to an informed decision. …
Startup SelfArray Using Levitation, Vibration To Mass-Manufacture LED Modules For Fine-Pitch Displays March 23, 2018 by Super User An upstate New York firm called SelfArray is touting technology that would greatly speed up the time it takes to manufacture fine pitch LED displays, using (and I am not making this up) magnets and levitation. The company just received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Award to continue …
Wrap-Around LED Board The Size Of Four B-Ball Courts Lights Up In Seoul March 23, 2018 by Super User This is a massive wrap-around digital OOH LED display in Seoul’s Gangnam-gu business district – which has a total surface area of more than 1,600 sq. meters, or roughly the size of four basketball courts. It is 81 by 20 meters. It is the biggest curved display in Korea, and presumably one of the biggest …
16:9 Projects Podcast: A 16K LED Ceiling On Chicago’s Magnificent Mile March 23, 2018 by Super User While shopping at Chicago’s Magnificent Mile mall patrons can look to the ceiling and see a 190 foot long canopy of trees. Or, if they look at another moment, they may see a kaleidoscope of colours or a flock of local birds. That’s because the skylight is actually a high definition LED canvas with content …
