Free Futuresource Analysis Looks At Industry Perspective, Workarounds For Current Tariffs Turmoil April 16, 2025 by Super User The research firm Futuresource Consulting has pro AV as a main focus and has, predictably, started to weigh in on the pinballing global tariffs situation – publishing a complementary bulletin called “Tariff Reflections on the Road” that reflects what analysts are hearing from makers and buyers at industry events like NAB. Among the interesting notes …
Canada: Serious Digital Signage Hack April 16, 2025April 15, 2025 by Florian Rotberg One of Canada’s largest digital signage providers was hacked last week. Instead of displaying menus and promotions, some screens showed messages supporting “Liberate Palestine.” This serious security incident showed once again that IT security is only as good as its weakest link.
Ticketing Starts (And Likely Ends) Tomorrow For XUSC Mixer At InfoComm April 15, 2025 by Super User Several emails have been coming in asking about plans for a Sixteen:Nine Mixer at InfoComm, including sponsorship requests, but I am both sorry and happy to report that there are no plans for a mixer in Orlando. Sorry because people enjoy them. Happy because planning and executing mixers is a pile of work. But there …
AUO Showcasing New Kind Of Energy-Sipping LCD, And Two-Sided Transparent MicroLED, At Touch Taiwan April 15, 2025 by Super User Probably the biggest vendor at Touch Taiwan this week in Guess Where is AUO, the giant white-label display manufacturer that has its main office about an hour south of Taipei. The company has pushed out an advancer piece talking about stand highlights, and the two that seem most interesting involve a new kind of energy-sipping …
Realfiction, PlayNitride Unveiling New Kind Of Glasses-Free 3D Display Based Around MicroLED April 15, 2025 by Super User Touch Taiwan starts tomorrow in Taipei and among the announcements advancing manufacturers’ showcases is one involving a tie-up between a domestic company, PlayNitride, and Danish specialty display company Realfiction, for a new kind of glasses-free 3D display that uses MicroLED. What is touted as the world’s first MicroLED-based 3D display is a 9-inch unit that …
Chinese TVs Not Part Of Relaxed Electronics Tariffs, But Flat Panels Appear To Be Exempted: Counterpoint April 14, 2025 by Super User Just to muddy the supply chain outlook a bit more, a new post by display supply chain experts Counterpoint Research notes that the tariffs on electronics that were relaxed this weekend exclude TVs – so if you were planning to by a big ole Hisense for watching, I dunno, the NHL playoffs, they’ll soon cost …
E-Paper in 75 Inch: Largest Spectra 6 Display to Date April 22, 2025April 14, 2025 by Balthasar Mayer The first 75-inch e-paper displays, launched at ISE 2025, did not yet offer a full-color range. Now, panel manufacturer E Ink has introduced an alternative by unveiling the first 75-inch Spectra 6 display.
The Digital Signage Ecosystem Has At Least 1,200 Companies, New Directory Suggests April 14, 2025 by Super User I have gone down the path two or three times of trying to build up a database of all of the companies in the digital signage ecosystem, starting with grand plans but then getting distracted and leaving the things dormant. So I was pleased and impressed to read of a directory with some 1,200 validated …
Big Interactive POS In Grocery Aisle Takes Place Of Merchandised Items, Because Goods Are Locked Up Elsewhere April 14, 2025 by Super User I was surprised, when stumbling across a retail trade publication story about in-store screens, that a touchscreen-embedded point of sale print piece was taking up such a big chunk of prime merchandising space on a grocery shelf … until I read on and learned it was all about reducing theft on high-value goods. The British …
Punitive US Tariffs On China-Origin Electronics Off For 90 Days … Or Are They??? April 14, 2025 by Super User It LOOKS like – ALL CAPS on LOOKS because as we’ve seen this is a moving target and the guy behind all this is fond of ALL CAPS – the digital signage and pro AV industries have been given a huge break as word broke that crippling US tariffs on Chinese imports to that market …
