Transparent LCD Adds Virtual Information Kiosk At Riyadh’s Airport November 28, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s one of those transparent LCD virtual presence set-ups being used at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s big airport, promoting Virgin Connect eSims and answering questions, using AI. It hits me as very expensive overkill, given what it does, but it does offer bling and buzz in a part of the world that especially likes its bling …
Icelandic Software Firm Launches “Hardware-Free” Digital Signage Solution November 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes An Icelandic software services company called Dacoda has wrapped up two years of development work and launched a new SaaS digital signage product that borrows on streaming TV technology – with a service that runs purely off a connected smart display’s browser. Called Signital – and I haven’t sorted our how to pronounce that … …
Video: Here’s A Volumetric Display That’s Much Closer To The Pop Culture Idea Of Holograms November 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes I natter away here when specialty display companies call their transparent LD or OLED screens, Pepper’s Ghost projections or spinning LED light thingies holograms, explaining that they’re not, because while the outputs may appear to float in a space, those visuals are two-dimensional and don’t have depth or dimension. Here, though, is a genuine 3D …
Betting Shop Chain Switches In-Store Digital Signage Set-Up To Amino’s Streaming Solution November 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes Paddy Power, the well-known retail betting shop chain in the UK and Ireland, has taken the interesting step of cutting over from a traditional servers and end-point PCs set-up for its in-store digital signage network to one using streaming media players. UK-based Amino’s H200 4K media players are now being used in more than 500 …
PPDS Gets A Deployment Of Its Lovely, Pricey E Ink Tableaux Screens … But Just Four Units November 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes Color e-paper is great tech, but prices likely have to come down by at least half – or more – before the industry is likely to see broad adoption. A good case in point is an announcement from PPDS (aka Philips) announcing a deployment of its E Ink-based Philips Tableaux displays at a historic restaurant and …
Trump Plans To Impose New Tariffs On Imported Electronics Could Chill US Pro AV Sector November 26, 2024 by Florian Rotberg Guest post: Florian Rotberg, Invidis Despite the current USMCA free trade agreement that Donald Trump signed with Canada and Mexico during his first term in office, the president-elect plans to impose new tariffs of 25 percent on all imports from Mexico and Canada, and an additional 10 percent on all imports from China. The newly-announced …
Tech That Pours Transistor-Filled Inks On MicroLEDs Touted As Way To Realize Mass Market Pricing November 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes A UK chemicals company is teaming up with one of the world’s largest display manufacturers to co-develop a new kind of transparent display that would be made, at least in theory, without much of the costs and complexity of current microLED manufacturing. Manchester-based Smartkem suggests that displays built by its partner, Taiwanese manufacturing AUO, would …
CAPEX Spending By Display Manufacturers Surpasses $7B This Year; On Both LCD And OLED November 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes One indicator of the relative health of the display tech sector would be how much manufacturers are spending on equipment, and by that measure, the sector looks quite robust. But a 47% jump in spending in 2024 comes immediately on the heels of big dips in investment the previous year. The research and consulting firm …
Digital Signage Business Climate Index For Q3 Finds Big Players Growing While Smaller Firms May Be Struggling November 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes German language content partners invidis have released the findings of its latest quarterly Business Climate Index, suggesting market sentiment is improving, even though actual sales are just poking along. The Q3 invidis Digital Signage Business Climate Index (DBCI) shows increasing optimism among industry participants. The status quo index rose from 29.29 to 42.89 in Q3, …
LG Re-Org Puts Commercial Displays In Same Business Tent As Company’s Media And Entertainment Business November 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes LG Electronics has announced a pile of organizational changes and appointments it says its built around the Korean company’s mid- to long-term strategy, restructuring the business into four companies and putting commercial displays under the umbrella of Media Entertainment Solutions. The business units are Home Appliance Solution (HS) Company, the Media Entertainment Solution (MS) Company, …
