Preview: Intuit Dome Provides First Look At The 38,000 Sq. Ft. Halo Display Suspended Over Arena Floor July 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes The giant halo LED display inside the soon-to-open Intuit Dome in LA had a press reveal the other day, showing off what is the biggest halo display inside an arena. The arena, which will be home to the NBA’s LA Clippers, has a double-sided halo with more than 38,300 square feet of digital canvas, using …
Trucking Company Uses 30-Foot LED Wall In Lobby To Relate History, Milestones And Values July 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes It could be argued that there’s maybe a bit too much information to take in with the company timelines, but this is a nice example of effectively using a big LED wall in a corporate lobby – the Lexington, SC corporate office of Southeastern Freight Lines. It’s a 30′ wide and 5′ high fine pitch …
Nike Paris Flagship Uses LED Rotors In Glass Cylinders To Promo New Air Max Sneakers July 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes Athletic wear brands with their own stores, and retail chains that focus on athletic shoes and apparel, tend to go way over the top with visual bling in their flagship bricks and mortar environments, and this Nike House of Innovation store in Paris is a prime example. There are big, in-your-face visuals everywhere, but what’s …
Southwest Airlines Kept Flying Through Global IT Outage Because It Still Uses Windows 3.1, Circa 1992 July 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes Through Friday’s global IT outage, it started to become clear that the enterprise-level digital signage networks most affected by the CrowdStrike security update boo-boo seemed to be airports and airlines, but U.S. carrier Southwest Airlines screens were minimally affected because the carrier, somewhat astonishingly, is using versions of Windows coded in the 1990s. Numerous IT-focused …
Omnivex Does A Lot of Windows-based Digital Signage Networks, And CTO Says They’re On Top Of It July 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes When I first learned this morning of the CrowdStrike update that was causing Blue Screens Of Death on computers running Windows (and CrowdStrike security software), I started thinking about the implications for digital signage software vendors that have scores, hundreds or even thousands of endpoints running Microsoft’s operating system. The company that most comes to …
Newark Airport BSODs July 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes From a reader trying to get home this morning from Newark’s international airport … These DOOH screens appear to be at least sold by the media company Clear Channel Outdoor. What a mess. Here’s an earlier post showing passenger information screens blue-screened, at multiple airports. More pix …
Photos And Videos: How Windows/Crowdstrike Issues Affecting Airlines And Airports July 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes It is VERY difficult these days to discern what is real and what is the cheeky fakery of someone who knows their way around image and video editing tools. But poking around online for a while reveals some real examples of problems brought on by the Windows/CrowdStrike issues that developed overnight. Most notably, in the …
Panasonic Sells It B2B Projector Business July 19, 2024 by Florian Rotberg This post first appeared on the site of content partner invidis … According to NHK, Panasonic has finally found a buyer for its professional projector business in Orix. The Japanese financial investor Orix is said to be paying the equivalent of around 580 million euros for the ProAV business. In May it was announced that …
Ambitious Digital Signage Still Getting Deployed In Ukraine, Despite War July 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes I got a nice note overnight from a company in Ukraine, thanking me for earlier coverage of a petrol station in Kyiv that went up, with 200 sq. meters of LED display in the forecourt area, even while the war continued on and on with Ukraine’s Russian invaders. Inna Bielik from the company Fasade Master …
Big Public Art Video On London’s Highest-Profile DOOH Display Shows Fighter Jets In DISARM Formation July 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes The big Piccadilly Lights digital board in central London is running a video piece by UK artist Fiona Banner (apparently also known as the Vanity Press) meant as a reminder that there is more global conflict happening right now than at any time since the end of the Second World War. The long-form video developed …
