Bluefin Expands Well Beyond Its Countertop Screen Roots; Now Markets Displays As Large As 86 Inches November 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes The commodity side of selling commercial flat panels has to be tough these days given the rise of lower-cost Chinese products and an industry shifting to LED, but there is evidently still room and opportunity in the market for specialty displays in smaller sizes and suppliers that can cover just about any display size need …
Parking Lot Management Platform Adds Real-Time Displays To Solution Stack November 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of digital signage that’s put in place for no other reason than improving a process for the user and operator – networked displays in parking garage that are end-points in a cloud-based parking management system. I call it boring signage and that is a term of endearment, just like boring signage at …
360-Degree LED Column, 10M-High Dynamic Windows At New Public Media Project In Taipei November 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes Taipei now has an LED-driven public video installation that has some similarities to Outernet London, though not nearly at the same scale. Taipei Lumitree is a public-accessible media installation at the base of one of the many modern buildings in the same district as the Taipei 101 skyscraper. It has 254 square meters of LED …
PRN Opens Retail Media Networks Bridgehead In Europe With 5,000+ Screen Deal Involving Fitness Club Chain November 14, 2024 by Dave Haynes Stratacache subsidiary PRN has made its first big move into the European retail media market, doing a partnership deal to sell and manage ads on screens in Basic Fit, Europe’s largest fitness chain. The deal is PRN’s first retail media contract across the Atlantic, involving more than 5,000 digital signage displays in more than 850 …
Loop’s Rough Year Gets Worse; Asks For Restraining Order To Block Sale Of Its Assets By Main Lender November 14, 2024 by Dave Haynes A year that one might describe as, umm, turbulent just keeps dishing it out for digital out of home media company Loop Media, which makes a streaming news and entertainment channels , as well as basic digital signage capabilities, available to businesses. There were layoffs in the spring, most of the leadership team was walked …
Have A Look At This Crazily-Big Control Room LED Wall In China November 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes It has been my experience that when something is touted as the largest, there’s almost always something else, somewhere, that is even larger. Whatever the case, this newly switched-on control room screen in China would certainly be, at minimum, among the largest indoor LED video walls deployed to date. It is roughly 1,200 square meters …
LG Demos Stretchable Display Prototype That Could Lead To Hi-Rez Dynamic Fabric And Clothing November 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes When the idea of wearables with high resolution displays comes up, it is almost always about things like smart watches. But LG Display recently showed in Korea a stretchable display that could be used as a fabric substitute for things like first responder jackets. Using 40 micrometer (and therefore “true”) microLEDs, a rectangular 12-inch display …
LED Die Maker Cree Launches Product It Says Bridges Gap Between Old-School And New Display Tech November 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes The American LED die manufacturer Cree has launched a new product for outdoor displays that it says bridges a gap between old-school through-hole LED and much newer surface-mounted device (SMD) display technologies. Cree LED says its new CV28D LEDs with what it calls “FusionBeam Technology provides a big boost in resolution and image quality and …
Belfast’s Main Live Events Venue Does Digital Signage Refresh Across Venue November 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes The SSE Arena in Belfast has had digital signage as part of its communication mix since 2015, and the 11,000-seat venue – Northern Ireland’s biggest live events destination – has now completed a big upgrade that includes a lot of LED display. The arena, which is home to everything from concerts to Belfast Giants ice …
Transparent Display Emulates Red Light District Window To Try Solving Amsterdam Cold Case November 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes If you have been to Amsterdam and found yourself walking at night through the central area’s famed “Red Light District” you have likely seen sex workers in street windows, making passersby aware of their services and availability. The Dutch firm HereWeHolo has one of its life-sized transparent LCD enclosures installed in that area, at the …
