CES: Hisense Debuts 116-Inch TV Using New Kind Of MiniLED; And 136-Inch “MicroLED” TV January 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes The display highlight from Chinese manufacturer Hisense at CES today was arguably news of a 116-inch TV that uses independent red, green, and blue light chips in packages that have optical lenses, really amping what’s called local dimming on the screen. Hisense is pitching that the RGB Local Dimming Technology featured on its new 116-inch …
CGI’d London Pre-Opening Storefront Suggests What Could Really Be Done On Windows January 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is just a CGI job, but what’s interesting about this retail storefront concept is that could be pretty easily done – unlike some earlier clickbait-ish social media posts that looked cool but were either impractical or almost impossible to pull off in real life. It was promoting a store opening for a new London …
Samsung, LG Reveal Newest Display Tech Ahead Of This Week’s CES Show January 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas starts tomorrow but some of the larger player in the sector – notably Samsung and rival LG – have as is custom already held their big press conferences and provided sneak peeks and showcases for trade press and VIPs. Companies like Sony, Hisense and TCL have big …
Raptors Not Reindeer Wandered Dallas Zoo Grounds Over Holidays In Projection Mapping Show January 2, 2025 by Dave Haynes If you have kids, or there’s still quite a bit of kid in you – and you happen to live in the Dallas area – that city’s zoo is winding down a projection-driven show that ran ran through the holiday season but featured raptors instead of reindeer. Semi-transparent scrim screens positioned around the oldest zoo …
The Top 10 Sixteen:Nine Posts For 2024 December 31, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s a look at the top posts from 2024 – in terms of views from readers – on Sixteen:Nine. If there is any clarity from this top 10 list, it is that reader interests are all over the place 😉 Clever Campaign Turns Blackened Ballpark LED Display Into Marketing Gold Changi Re-Opens Terminal 2 With …
Nordic Hotel Operator Evaluating Transparent LCD-Driven AI Avatars To Handle Check-ins And Guest Questions December 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes A hotel operator in Scandinavia is evaluating one of those life-sized transparent LCD display systems and an AI-driven avatar to check in guests when no front desk staff is around to process registration and hand over room access cards. The AI greeter was first launched last month at the Aiden by Best Western Lolland hotel …
US Cable And Media Giant Comcast Expands Digital Signage Capabilities By Adding New Tech Partnerships December 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes The US media and telecoms giant Comcast has added a pair of what it calls “new collaborations” with tech firms that are intended to expand its capabilities as a digital signage solutions for targeted enterprise customers in vertical markets like healthcare, hospitality, QSR and sports and entertainment venues. Comcast Smart Solutions, which specializes in smart …
UK Touch Tech Manufacturer Needs To Sell Or Wind Down As Sales Have Stalled December 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes Unfortunate news out of the UK, with the northern England touch technology manufacturer Zytronic making it known that is looking at selling the company or even shutting down because of sluggish sales. The listed company has issued a trading update outlining how sales in the last year fell from £8.6m to £7.2m, and that there …
Experiential In Airports Is Not Just About Big Dollar Creative: Exhibit B December 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s the second post about very different approaches to experiential digital signage at a big airport that don’t have six-figure creative attached to the jobs – in this case, a big preview screen that lets people know their friends and family are about to squirt out of arrivals and join them. Todd Alan Green, who …
Experiential In Airports Is Not Just About Big Dollar Creative: Exhibit A December 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s the first of two very different stories about experiential digital signage at a big airport – neither of them having anything to do with big-dollar creative or complicated technologies. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is, as anyone who has used it will confirm, crazy-busy – with some 286,000 passengers and roughly 2,100 arrivals and departures …
