Ross Video Boosts Real-Time Graphics Capabilities Via Bannister Lake Acquisition April 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes The live video production technology company Ross Video has an agreement to acquire another Canadian company, Bannister Lake Software (BL Soft). Ottawa-based Ross Video is a major player in solutions and services for live broadcasts and events, and Bannister Lake’s data-driven graphics capabilities fit nicely within broad list of products. The flagship BL Soft product Chameleon …
Digital Creative Collective Universal Everything Ding Months-Long Exhibit In Melbourne April 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes Another creative studio well known for generating visuals for big screens has got into the exhibition game – with the UK-based art and design collective Universal Everything putting on a special months-long event at the ACMI (formerly Australian Centre for the Moving Image) in Melbourne. The ticketed show is called Beings and will run from …
Future Tech: Researchers Makes LED Displays Inherently Interactive, And Solar Collectors April 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes As spotted in Display Daily, which is paywalled. One of the minor knocks against using LED display for video walls was how they did not support touchscreen interactivity, because the displays with micro-soldered light emitters were fragile and really not meant to be touched. It didn’t matter much because LED video walls didn’t tend to …
What If A Big Building’s Construction Wrap Or Hoarding Was A Display? April 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes The German company LightnTec has been steadily refining its unique LED display technology, which I’d inelegantly describe as a rugged tarpaulin that can double as a dynamic display. The Karlsruhe company has been at it for a few years now, and as happens with display tech, their products over time have become lighter, brighter, thinner …
Scala Staging Retail Media Networks Conference Ahead Of Next Week’s Retail Tech Show In London April 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes STRATACACHE had a packed room back in January when it tried out running a retail media network-focused one-day conference ahead of the NRF retail tech show in New York, so now the company is doing the same thing next week in London. Scala, which is owned by STRATACACHE and has higher brand recognition across the …
Boring But Good: Denver’s Busy Airport Uses LED Header Banner At New TSA Checkpoint April 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Denver International Airport recently opened a new 17-lane TSA security checkpoint on the terminal’s northwest end of Level 6, part of a $2.1B upgrade project at what is the third busiest airport in the US. The engineering and design firm Stantec is doing a big list of work at the airport, and one component is …
Partners Start Marketing Mesh-Based Screen For Projected Visual Illusions April 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Projections on near-transparent surfaces that create the visual illusion of 3D and holograms have been around for a bunch of years, but a Dutch start-up and its US sales and marketing partner are touting a new product that is based on a lightweight fabric-like mesh instead of a film. Austin, TC-based Screen Innovations, which markets everything …
Peerless-AV Adds One Display, One Mount Capability To Its “Seamless” LED Mounting System April 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes The specialty display and display infrastructure manufacturer Peerless-AV has debuted a new twist on its “SEAMLESS” universal LED mounting System – what the Chicago-area company says is an industry-first “one display, one mount” solution. This is not an area I know all that well, so let’s go with this helpful, chest-beating free description found on …
With Everyone Having Fine Pixel Pitch LED, Marketing Shifting To Other Specs April 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes One of the interesting things that struck me as I wandered the endless corridors of the LED display part of ISE a couple of months back was how pixel pitch was not necessarily highlighted as the big selling point of manufacturers. I walked around one top 10 manufacturer’s stand and realized, they’re not even noting …
British Signage Language Displays Added To Digital Signage Mix At Scotland’s Busiest Rail Stations April 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes Mass transport environments have long used digital signage technology to relay important travel information to people rushing to catch planes, trains and buses, but the focus has mainly been on re-packaging real time data like gate and platform assignments as visual text presentations on screens. Now a UK rail system has started installing customer information …
