New KC Airport Includes Digitally-Driven Simulation For First-Time And Anxious Fliers March 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes The brand-new terminal at Kansas City International Airport has, like most new and reno’d airports, a lot of digital display deployed around its sprawling footprint, including some 300 feet of fine pitch Nanolumens LED used to designate and locate airline check-in. But there’s also a super-interesting component that uses digital displays as part of an …
New EU Energy Savings Regulations Restrict Use Of 8K Displays, MicroLED March 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes Sixteen:Nine’s German language content partners invidis have an interesting post up this morning that notes how energy efficiency requirements that come into effect today in the European Union restrict the use of 8K by display manufacturers. The primary concern with 8K is that energy consumption for an 8K display is double that of a 4K-rated …
Fine Pitch LED Walls Create Virtual Aquarium At IT Giant’s NYC Offices March 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes Aquariums have been used as office lobby decor for decades, but LED video wall technology has now matured and lowered in cost to a point that big virtual fish tanks can maybe go in instead – likely saving on a lot of maintenance and food for the fishies. The IT firm World Wide Technology has …
Live Performers Pair With Movement Tracking On Video Wall On The Absolutally Walkway March 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes I’ve seen companies like Zuzor at digital signage and AV trade shows demonstrating movement tracking experiential software for video walls, and thought it was interesting, but couldn’t come up with many real-world use-cases other than eye candy for little kids and extroverts. But here’s one that uses that sort of tech to to pair brand …
Mark Ossel Explains The Whys And Hows Of The Global Signage Alliance, And Its Ties To Samsung March 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes When I was doing my initial recon walk through the many halls of ISE a few weeks back, I went by a stand that was highlighting something called the Global Signage Alliance, which was unfamiliar to me and made me curious. The stand’s occupants weren’t there, and I was on the go, so I never …
17-Year-Old NEC Screens Still Happily Working Away At Vienna’s Airport February 28, 2023 by Dave Haynes Photo: Oliver Bauer, Sharp/NEC When it comes to flat panel displays, the general rule of thumb seems to be that they’ll last roughly five years before the screens will be due for replacement. So it is interesting to read about some displays that have been hard at work for 17 years … and counting. Our …
IT Giant Insight Uses LG’s Big Stretch LCDs For Business Communications At New Phoenix HQ February 28, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting and mostly different approach to messaging for staff and guests on a corporate campus – a set of 88-inch stretch LCDs set in portrait mode along three different hallways in the Phoenix-area headquarters of the IT company Insight Enterprises. Officially named Insight Way, the company’s new Gensler-designed headquarters is a 200,000-square-foot facility …
Skinny Bar-Type LCDs Help Guests Navigate New Downtown LA Destination February 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes Wayfinding and directory digital totems are pretty common in outdoor retail, leisure and transport destinations, and almost all of them look kinda sorta the same – except for these new ones deployed around a new dining destination in LA. Instead of high-bright 55-inch displays in portrait mode, these ones are skinny 37-inch stretch displays, with …
Pro Flat Panel Demand In US Softened Q3-4 2022: PMA Research February 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes LA-area research firm PMA Research says demand for commercial flat panel displays softened in the second half of last year as supply chain issues cleared up and order backlogs were all fulfilled. PMA, which describes itself as the worldwide market information experts on large displays, released that summary out of its latest half-yearly All-Displays sell-through …
NoviSign, Partners Create Spin-Out JV Company – ReaLo – Focused on Turnkey Digital Retail Solutions February 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes Three Israeli companies that all come at retail from differing angles have partnered on a new firm, called ReaLo, that makes end-to-end retail marketing/merchandising services available to customers. ReaLo, says PR, will support its customers end to end from the planning stage, through implementation and installation and up to ongoing full support, using its unique …
