MSG Sphere Firms Up Vegas Opening; First U2 Show On Sept. 29 April 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes The backers of that big LED-clad orb just off the Las Vegas Strip have firmed up late September for its opening, with a 9/29 concert date set for the Irish rock band U2 … and another one the next night. MSG Sphere had been saying fall 2023 and more recently September, particularly once the string …
Is Visualizing Tweets To Screens Worth $42K A Month To Digital Signage Companies? April 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes A reader passed along a link to discussions on Reddit focused on the seemingly endless changes to Twitter since it was acquired by Elon Musk – with the chatter focused on revisions to how third-party companies can use the Twitter feed … such as visualizing curated tweets on digital signage and DOOH screens. Poke around …
Great Hall In China’s National Film Museum All LED On Walls, And Floor April 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes The sheer scale of this vast set of LED displays inside the renovated China National Film Museum is kinda mind-blowing. I couldn’t find a lot about the technical details about the museum, located northeast of Beijing, other than descriptions of a 2019 renovation that incorporated an 1,800-square-meter high-brightness LED display – described as the largest …
LA’s New Intuit Dome Will Feature 38,375 Sq. Ft., Two-Sided LED Halo Over Playing Surface April 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes Big halo LED displays have received a lot of attention when then were lit up at pro football stadiums in Atlanta and LAS, but now there’s a version being manufactured and readied for installation at a pro basketball area – the new Intuit Dome in LA that will be home to the NBA’s Clippers. The …
Big Corner LED With Premium Creative Greets Ticketholders At Upgraded Baltimore Arena April 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes Baltimore’s primary indoor sports and entertainment venue recently finished a series of renovations and upgrades that included a large multimedia component on an outside corner of the downtown property. The newly renovated CFG Bank Arena opened earlier this month and now sports a big 90-degree corner LED supported by lighting, and running custom created by …
Moment Factory, Nanolumens To Partner On Interactive Experience For InfoComm Show Floor April 21, 2023 by Dave Haynes The organizers of June’s InfoComm trade show and conference in Orlando are putting together an interactive experience area that will fuse technology and art, with the creative team from Montreal’s Moment Factory developing reactive content that will play out on a pair of Nanolumens fine pitch LED video wall on the show floor. The Interactive Experience …
New Pro AV Event – Commercial Integrator Expo – Set For September In Denver April 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes Not sure how I missed this – apart from being old and stupid – but there’s a new pro AV-focused event on the trade show and conference calendar, focused on integrators. Commercial Integrator Expo will run September 6-9 in Denver, co-located with CEDIA Expo 2023. The show is run by the business events firm Emerald, …
Oakland As Buy Las Vegas Land; New-Build Ballpark (Presumably With Many, Many Screens) Targeted For 2027 April 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes Health care, airports and sports and entertainment venues tend to all present long and bureaucracy-filled sales processes, but the projects can offer a lot of scale in terms of hardware and software deals for companies selling digital signage solutions. So word that the Oakland As are getting closer and closer to moving to Las Vegas …
Sixteen:Nine InfoComm Mixer Update: Call For Sponsors & How To Register April 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes A whole bunch of emails and Linkedin messages have come in since the announcement last week that there will be a Sixteen:Nine digital signage networking mixer at InfoComm in Orlando, on June 13th. The event will have the usual feel and spirit of past mixers at various events, but this one is notably different in …
NYC’s Subway Screen Network Steadily Battered By Vandalism April 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes Photo credit: Fractenberg/The City Digital displays running everything from public information to advertising are having a rough ride on New York’s sprawling subway system – with 100s of LCD screens vandalized in just the past two and a half years. There is so much vandalism – from graffiti to shattered glass and damaged vending machines …
