Peerless-AV Adds Horsepower To Outdoor Soundbar November 14, 2017 by Super User I did not know there was such a thing as a commercial-grade soundbar, but now I do – with word that Peerless-AV has upgraded its Xtreme Outdoor Soundbar with enough system power to make digital signage audio effective in public environments like amusement park line-ups. The units are IP65-rated and can pair directly with a display enclosure using a …
A Kiosk Screen Stand Shaped Like A Longneck Beer Bottle November 14, 2017 by Super User There is no end of options for floor-standing digital signage displays being put together and shipped out of Guangdong, and they all pretty much look the same. Except this one. It’s an upside-down bottle shape, which is kinda clever. You could imagine a beer brand having some fun with the creative on this. Can’t speak …
Watch: 2017 Rockettes’ Show Features Massive Projection Mapping And 8K LED Wall November 14, 2017 by Super User I’m not sure this qualifies as digital signage, but this multimedia effort for the annual Rockettes’ Christmas shows in New York is impressive and shows what’s possible with projection tech, fine pitch LED and great creative. The Madison Square Garden Company’s 2017 production of the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes has been overthauled and enhanced …
Watch How That Giant LED Selfie Head In Columbus, OH Came Together November 13, 2017 by Super User Here’s a really good explainer video about the giant selfie head that switched on as an interactive art piece a few weeks ago at the newly-renovated Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio. Design Communications Ltd., a fabricator of architectural specialties and custom experiential design elements, worked with artist Matthew Mohr to develop, engineer and fabricate …
Back At HQ After Week In LED Land November 13, 2017 by Super User Back at World HQ after a week in the heartlands of narrow pitch LED. As noted, the report will be out in January ahead of ISE. I’ll get back on regular news, though I don’t the impression all that much happened last week. I don’t know if it was a function of my not looking …
Esprit’s Giant Low-Rez Digital Facade In Kowloon November 10, 2017 by Super User This is the Esprit flagship store on Hong Kong’s Peking Road, which I stumbled across last night walking around the city. It’s a really, really different take on big digital facades, and like nothing I’ve seen before. What’s also a bit surprising is that it dates back more than eight years. Three sides of the …
Impressions From LED Land November 10, 2017 by Super User A ferry will take me this morning from Shenzhen, China to Hong Kong, which I am assuming is a far nicer way to get between the two cities than the subway rides I took to get here. Yeah, you can take the subway to China. It’s cheap and kinda sorta fast, but hard work if …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Sean Levy, MediaSignage November 8, 2017 by Super User There’s no question that consumers like the word free, and it’s a term that has certainly worked for LA-based MediaSignage, which sees about 100 new accounts opened up everyday for its mostly free digital signage platform. There are lots of software offers in this business that are free for the first account, but you pay …
Report From LED Land November 7, 2017 by Super User Doing the drinking from a fire-hose thing in my LED learning trip to Taiwan and Asia. This a stack of reels of teeny LED packages – microscopic diodes mounted and sealed in cubes with lenses. The reels, with something like 3,000 diodes on them – are loaded into a robotic machine the size of a …
Taipei 101 Has An LED Display Cone Between Retail Floors November 6, 2017 by Super User The base levels of the tallest building in Taiwan – Taipei 101 – are a lot of retail and restaurants, and a lot of escalators. One of them had this multimedia set-up I can’t recalls seeing anywhere else – a fine-pitch LED display that runs up the span between the escalators. About halfway up the …
