LG Marketing Big Outdoor LED Displays For Cruise Ships March 16, 2023 by Super User LG has started marketing a new outdoor direct-view LED display series expressly designed for the cruise ship market, with units that are built to survive whatever weather and operating conditions the crew might encounter. The GNEB series has marine-grade powder and conformal (circuitry) coatings, and the front and rear of the displays are IP67-certified. The …
First Waterfalls, Then Aquariums, And Now There Are Digital Campfires March 15, 2023 by Super User Display technology has been set up to emulate all kinds of things – from waterfalls to virtual ceilings and digital chandeliers – but I think this is the first time I have seen screens clustered together to emulate a campfire. It is in the Frankfurt flagship of the outdoor’s-focused retailer Jack Wolfskin, a German brand …
Mvix Extends Software To Better Reach Hybrid Workforces March 15, 2023 by Super User Mvix is the latest digital signage software firm to adapt and extend its platform to service the needs of hybrid workplaces – launching a new feature that allows clients to stream real-time digital signage content to a distributed audience. The service from the DC-area company, dubbed Virtual Player, “enables digital signage content to be distributed …
Endangered Kelp Forests Get Replicated On Big SFO LED Display March 15, 2023 by Super User Virtual aquariums have been used before for large-scale LED video walls, as have virtual waterfalls, but a new digital piece running in one of Salesforce’s office towers in San Francisco relates to a cause. The CRM giant is running a public art video piece on the big, 90-degree corner SNA Displays LED in the Salesforce …
Futuresource’s ISE Wrap-Up: Price Erosion Continuing In LED; LCD Use Range Narrowing March 15, 2023 by Super User The UK-based research and consulting firm Futuresource sent a pile of people – 22 market analysts – to Integrated Systems Europe in Barcelona, to walk the halls, talk to vendors and sit in on presentations. That investment and effort builds up knowledge and helps shape future reports, but the company very helpfully puts out a …
How Gavin Smith’s Backyard Tinkering Led To The World’s Most Advanced 3D Volumetric Display March 15, 2023 by Super User When I was at the big ISE pro AV trade show a few weeks ago, I yet again saw several products that were billed as holograms, even though they didn’t even loosely fit the technical definition. I am always paying attention to news and social media posts that use that terminology, and once in a …
I Tried A Bot-Generated Blog Post, And It’s Not Bad March 14, 2023 by Super User My son Scott is HEAVILY into AI-generated art and has been regularly sending me samples of work created, as well as raising my limited level of understanding of what this all is and how it works – including pointing me at Dall E and Midjourney and some ChatGPT set-ups. My understanding and experience are still …
Do Media Owners Need To Go All-In On Programmatic DOOH? March 14, 2023 by Ben Abbatiello Guest Post: Ben Abbatiello, Hivestack As the global economic outlook continues to become more uncertain, there is one thing that the advertising industry can agree on: even when budgets are tight, advertising should not be paused — in fact this could be the most important time to reach audiences with precision. Both the 2008 recession …
Harvard Research Confirms E-Paper Displays Easier On Eyes March 14, 2023 by Super User I doubt eye strain is much of a factor when end-users and their solutions providers make choices about screens to use for digital signage jobs, but it is still interesting to see peer-reviewed research that confirms e-paper displays are much easier on the eyes than LCD and LED displays. A study on the effects of …
LED Display Maker Watchfire Bulks Up Sports Capabilities Via Spectrum Scoreboards Acquisition March 13, 2023 by Super User LED display manufacturer Watchfire has bulked up its capabilities in the live sports market via the acquisition of Spectrum Scoreboards, giving Watchfire what it describes as “a complete line of fixed-digital sports scoreboards and timing displays.” Funded by private equity owners H.I.G. Capital, the purchase of Spectrum assets gets Watchfire one of the largest privately-owned …
