Gene Hamm Relates How Digichief Aggregates, Curates And Creates Consistent Content For Digital Signage Networks May 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes Digichief has been helping digital signage and DOOH network operators feed the so-called content beast for a bunch of years. While the Kentucky-based company started up in 2007, its roots go back another decade to a tech start-up that did similar graphics-driven content work for broadcast TV. I’ve known co-founder Gene Hamm forever, but this …
MicroLED Tech Start-up Brings On Ex-Daktronics CEO Kurtenbach As Interim CEO May 20, 2025 by Dave Haynes Longtime Daktronics CEO Reece Kurtenbach has resurfaced as the interim CEO of a small US-Irish company that is focused on the technology for mass transferring microLEDs and then driving visuals with micro integrated circuits and what X Display calls a Pixel Engine. Kurtenbach was President, CEO, and Chair of Daktronics from 2013 to 2025, but …
Scala Gets Beyond Just Populating Menu Displays With New Quintet QSR Automation Solution May 20, 2025 by Dave Haynes It seems obvious, but I remain surprised how many CMS software companies continue down the path of developing and marketing general solutions, when in most cases they should really be trying to zero in on solution and sector, and go deep with it. If your solution meets every or most needs, it’s probably broad but …
Smallish LED Tunnel Creates Big Visuals At New Thai Experiential Space May 19, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is an experiential space that recently opened in Bangkok, Thailand – especially interesting because it uses a relatively small amount of LED display to create a set of huge visual experiences. It’s a an LED tunnel lined floor to curved ceiling with display, and while kinda sorta small physically when compared to big LED …
German Pump Systems Company Invests Big In LED Displays Around Corporate Campus May 16, 2025 by Dave Haynes If the planets align, I will have stumbled off an overnight flight to Munich this morning (no upgrade, dammit!) as this scheduled post goes up about a very impressive and extensive use of LED display for a corporate campus about six hours drive away in Dortmund. The pump and pump systems company Wilo Group put …
TCL Demos Both Godzilla and SIM Card-sized MicroLEDs At Display Week May 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology, aka TCL, has a big stand at this week’s Display Week in Silicon Valley, and among the demos is 219-inch microLED video wall display. It is tiled, so it is not one single slab of screen. It has a 36:9 aspect ratio and a resolution of 5,760 by 1,440, so …
Display Week: LG Display Demos 4th-Gen OLED That Can Push 4,000 Nits May 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes One of the primary knocks, for the longest time, with large format OLED displays has been brightness, but LG is at the screen-nerd Display Week event this week in Silicon Valley talking up what it describes as 4th-generation OLED panels that can push as much as 4,000 nits. That is very bright – the sort …
Display Week: Smartkem’s CEO Explains The Challenge With Making MicroLED, And How His UK Firm Deals With That May 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes Display Week is on right now in San Jose – a conference and small trade show that attracts display nerds from all over the planet. I’ve been – though not this year – and it is the sort of event that’s best suited to people with more than a casual interest in what’s new with …
Premier League’s Brighton Switches On UK’s First Transparent LED Glass Balustrade System May 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes There is a lot of building-grade glass out there, and as LED technology has improved and matured, it makes sense that glass surfaces will start doubling up as screens. There are not all that many reference cases outside of China, but here’s a high profile one in the UK – at the home grounds of …
Amsterdam’s Giant Schiphol Airport Switches On Programmatic For Its Internally-Run DOOH Media Network May 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes Advertising is present in pretty much every airport a traveler might come across, but the ad faces – static or digital – tend to be put in, managed and sold by third-party out of home media companies. But the company that runs Amsterdam’s sprawling airport, as well as two other Dutch airfields, does things differently. …
