Leyard Wins Deal For Fine Pitch LED Backdrops For NBC’s Winter Olympics Broadcast Set November 14, 2017 by Super User Chinese KED manufacturer Leyard says it has won the deal with NBC’s Olympics broadcast team to provide multiple narrow pitch LED video walls for the broadcast sets of the upcoming Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Leyard’s LED tech was used as the production backdrop at the summer games in Rio in 2016, so …
Peerless-AV Adds Horsepower To Outdoor Soundbar November 14, 2017 by Super User I did not know there was such a thing as a commercial-grade soundbar, but now I do – with word that Peerless-AV has upgraded its Xtreme Outdoor Soundbar with enough system power to make digital signage audio effective in public environments like amusement park line-ups. The units are IP65-rated and can pair directly with a display enclosure using a …
A Kiosk Screen Stand Shaped Like A Longneck Beer Bottle November 14, 2017 by Super User There is no end of options for floor-standing digital signage displays being put together and shipped out of Guangdong, and they all pretty much look the same. Except this one. It’s an upside-down bottle shape, which is kinda clever. You could imagine a beer brand having some fun with the creative on this. Can’t speak …
Watch: 2017 Rockettes’ Show Features Massive Projection Mapping And 8K LED Wall November 14, 2017 by Super User I’m not sure this qualifies as digital signage, but this multimedia effort for the annual Rockettes’ Christmas shows in New York is impressive and shows what’s possible with projection tech, fine pitch LED and great creative. The Madison Square Garden Company’s 2017 production of the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes has been overthauled and enhanced …
New Data Platform Tracks, Logs Total Population Movement Of U.S. November 13, 2017 by Super User Sacramento-based Citilabs has launched what it calls a first-of-its-kind population movement analytics solution that provides an hour-by-hour picture of how Americans move around their country. The company’s Streetlytics platform uses billions of data points to measure and report origin-destination movements, directional road volumes, and traveler demographics. The toolset is aimed at industries like digital OOH …
Watch How That Giant LED Selfie Head In Columbus, OH Came Together November 13, 2017 by Super User Here’s a really good explainer video about the giant selfie head that switched on as an interactive art piece a few weeks ago at the newly-renovated Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio. Design Communications Ltd., a fabricator of architectural specialties and custom experiential design elements, worked with artist Matthew Mohr to develop, engineer and fabricate …
Back At HQ After Week In LED Land November 13, 2017 by Super User Back at World HQ after a week in the heartlands of narrow pitch LED. As noted, the report will be out in January ahead of ISE. I’ll get back on regular news, though I don’t the impression all that much happened last week. I don’t know if it was a function of my not looking …
Acer Expanding Digital Signage Activity Via Majority Owner Position In Old Subsidiary Aopen November 11, 2017 by Super User Acer is taking on 51% ownership in another Taiwan tech company, Aopen, in what is described as a core strategy to expand its digital signage business. Acer will participate in a private placement of 36.5 million new common shares of AOpen at a price of $0.38 per share USD. This is a bit of a …
Esprit’s Giant Low-Rez Digital Facade In Kowloon November 10, 2017 by Super User This is the Esprit flagship store on Hong Kong’s Peking Road, which I stumbled across last night walking around the city. It’s a really, really different take on big digital facades, and like nothing I’ve seen before. What’s also a bit surprising is that it dates back more than eight years. Three sides of the …
Outcome Health Sued By Investors, Alleging Fraud; DoJ Getting Involved November 10, 2017 by Super User Chicago-based digital OOH media network operators Outcome Health is being sued for fraud by some of its high profile backers, including Google and Goldman Sachs, and the US Justice Department is now getting involved. The Chicago Tribune reports the Justice Department is subpoenaing investors in the wake of a lawsuit accusing the startup of committing fraud to …
