Chicago Mall Gets Stunning Makeover With Huge LED Canopy November 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is great – a stunning use of fine pitch LED in the ceiling of a seven-level shopping and lifestyle center on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. The centerpiece of a makeover at 900 North Michigan Shops is a massive, 190-foot-long digital art installation spanning the ceiling of the nearly 30-year-old complex. Visible from all floors, and built in …
NDS, Tripleplay Add Support For Samsung’s Tizen Smart Display Platform November 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes A pair of well-established digital signage software firms across the Atlantic have announced integrations with Samsung’s Tizen-driven Smart Signage platform. The Dutch firm NDS has announced its flagship software PADS4 is the first software in the world that has been tested and approved by Samsung engineers to optimally run on Samsung’s System on Chip (SoC) …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Mike Kilian, Mvix November 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes Mvix is another one of those companies in the digital signage ecosystem that ticks along, doing its thing, without making a lot of marketplace noise. I assumed the software and solutions provider, based in the high tech corridor west of Washington, DC, had maybe 20-25 people. But I found out Mvix has about 70, mostly …
Leyard Wins Deal For Fine Pitch LED Backdrops For NBC’s Winter Olympics Broadcast Set November 14, 2017 by Dave Haynes Chinese KED manufacturer Leyard says it has won the deal with NBC’s Olympics broadcast team to provide multiple narrow pitch LED video walls for the broadcast sets of the upcoming Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Leyard’s LED tech was used as the production backdrop at the summer games in Rio in 2016, so …
Peerless-AV Adds Horsepower To Outdoor Soundbar November 14, 2017 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
