Projects: 700-Plus Wide Band Of LCDs At Orlando’s Airport June 22, 2017 by Dave Haynes One of the InfoComm Big Canvas sessions I put together last week in Orlando took an in-depth look at the massive video wall steadily being put in place at Orlando’s primary airport. We had Seattle’s Synect, which did the content, RP Visuals, which did the mount structure, and LG, which won the deal for 700 …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: James Fine, Telecine June 21, 2017 by Dave Haynes James Fine has been around the digital signage ecosystem since the earliest days. He founded Telecine in the mid-80s to do high-end video production for the corporate sector. By the mid-90s, he was getting into signage, putting networked screens in Quebec casinos. We talk about the early days of the business – like spending $25,000 …
Subway Steps Up Digital Game; Adds Self-Ordering Kiosks, Menuboards June 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes Subway is stepping up its digital game, adding self-ordering kiosks and digital menuboards in a bid to reverse three years of declining sales. Bloomberg reports that Subway is testing about 50 self-ordering kiosks that allow people to walk in and tailor their order, instead of doing the back and forth ordering with the worker actually adding …
InfoComm 2017 – Pix From The Floor June 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’ve posted photos in earlier reports from last week at InfoComm, but here are some more that didn’t find their way into earlier coverage, with comments added: Transparent LED – those mesh screens you can see through – are getting quite good. The content running on this one was vivid. Fine pitch LEDs are being …
Projects: 100 Square Metres OF LED In Lithuanian Cinema Lobby June 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is the Forum cinema in Kaunas, Lithuania, which has invested in a big way in 3.9mm pitch LED screens and ambient content around the theatre’s lobby. The set-up was designed and installed by the Italian firm MacroPix. The total resolution is 4K plus and there is about 100 square metres of digital on the walls. …
InfoComm 2017 – Sixteen:Nine v. DailyDOOH Video June 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes Here’s my chat with Adrian from DailyDOOH, at the NEC stand last week in Orlando. There is a full archive of his chats with various people here …
Data-Driven NYC Taxi Top Displays Tout EWR Being Faster Ride Than JFK June 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes United Airlines has a data-driven digital OOH campaign going on New York taxicab toppers that’s designed to dispel the myth that taking a cab from the city to JFK, to fly out of there, is faster than traveling to Newark Airport (which has the airport code EWR). While JFK lays claim to being New York’s …
Some 100 Projectors Used For Immersive Art Experience In Provence June 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a pretty fantastic example of projection mapping done indoors – about 100 video projectors generating images over an area of more than 7,000 sq.m., including the floor, at the Carrières de Lumières, an immersive art gallery in Provence, France. The exhibition runs until January 2018, celebrating the art of Bosch, Brueghel and Arcimboldo. The exhibit …
InfoComm 2017: Day One Impressions June 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes It was readily apparent to just about anyone that the big InfoComm pro AV trade show down in Orlando this week would include a lot of exhibit hall real estate filled up by LED display manufacturers. But I’ve never seen as many of them as I saw here – not even at the version of …
LG Launches Low-Rez See-Through LED Film at InfoComm June 14, 2017 by Dave Haynes LG is formally launching a transparent LED film that’s meant to stick on things like windows and dividers and offer low-rez graphics. The tech is being launched for the North American market this week at InfoComm in Orlando, but was shown several months ago at ISE in Amsterdam. Says a press release: The LG Transparent …
