ClearChannel Cuts Deal To Clad Las Vegas Westin With Giant LED Walls Ahead Of F1, Super Bowl October 2, 2023 by Dave Haynes The F1 race coming up in a few weeks in Las Vegas has triggered an investment by the media company ClearChannel in a set of giant displays on a big hotel just off the strip. Clear Channel Outdoor has partnered with the Westin Las Vegas Hotel & Spa to have three jumbo displays running in …
The Sheer Scale Of The LED Screen In That Now-Opened Sphere Concert Venue Is Mind-Blowing October 2, 2023 by Dave Haynes There have been many, many posts and observations about the unmissable visual impact of the LED-clad Sphere lighting up behind the Venetian in Las Vegas, but now the venue is live inside – with launch concerts featuring Irish rock giants U2. The concert and events theater at what’s called Sphere at the Venetian is 580,000 …
Fine Pitch LED Sales Miss Forecasts In Q2: OMDIA October 2, 2023 by Dave Haynes Global sales of fine pitch LED video wall displays didn’t hit forecasts in Q2 of this year, according to new data slipped out by the research firm Omdia. But sales of what you’d maybe call “almost fine pitch” are hopping. Analyst Tay Taehoon Kim periodically posts briefs on Linkedin that reference larger, paywalled research pieces. …
Raspberry Pi Launches Fifth Generation; Touted As 2X+ Faster Than Pi 4 October 2, 2023 by Dave Haynes The organization behind the long-running series of Raspberry Pi series of micro PCs announced the launch late last week of the fifth generation of the units – with upgrades on just about everything. It is the first major release since the Pi 4 came out four years ago. The headlines are that it is more …
London’s Outernet Immersive (And Free) Visuals Experience Continues To Impress And Draw Crowds October 2, 2023 by Dave Haynes One of the sites I really wanted to see a second time while in London was the Outernet development in the center of the city, on the fringes of Soho and beside the Tottenham Court Road Station on the new-ish Elizabeth Line subway. It’s pretty amazing. The Now Building, the primary venue that has some …
I’m Back October 2, 2023 by Dave Haynes I’m back. Anything happen? For a big change, I actually took off an extended amount of time and through September didn’t do anything more than glance at emails and clear off most of them, so I wouldn’t come back to 3,000+ messages this morning. My wife Joy was very impressed I didn’t even bring a …
FEMA Asking Digital Signage Networks To Join Oct. 4th National Test Of Alert Systems September 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes The US Federal Emergency Management Agency is doing a national test of its Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) in early October, and asking digital signage network operators to help out with the testing. IPAWS provides authenticated, life-saving emergency messages through mobile phones, radio and TV and digital signage through the IPAWS All-Hazards Information …
Korbyt CTO George Clopp On Going Big On AI-Driven Digital Signage Long Before ChatGPT September 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes What if you could use AI to make digital signage screen content relentlessly relevant? That’s the premise and promise of what Korbyt calls Machine Learning Broadcast, new capabilities in the Dallas-based software firm’s CMS platform. Using computer vision and machine learning, the idea is that if the platform can get a sense of what’s making …
Reminder: Get Your Entries In For The Global Digital Signage Awards; Sept. 30 Submission Deadline September 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes Submissions for the global Digital Signage Awards need to be in by the end of this month, and as a main media sponsor and the person behind the awards categories, I wanted to remind companies about the deadline and reinforce the rationale for entering. There are some big changes in place for the awards categories …
Custom-Fit Version Of Samsung’s The Wall Sells Merits Of Syracuse University To Students, Parents September 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a nice piece of integration work done to blend a big micro LED video wall into the interior features of an architectural landmark – a circa 1964 university building designed by I.M. Pei. The video wall is in place in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University to sell prospective …
