SID Making Its Annual Display Nerd Fest More Visit-Friendly For Less Technical Attendees April 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Society For Information Display’s annual DisplayWeek conference and exhibit hall is really good event for anyone interested in seeing what’s in the works for pro display in three to five years, or longer, but it can be a bit bewildering for people who don’t have degrees in electrical engineering. The display nerd fest – …
Shenzhen’s CEOLED Display Makes Pitch For A 55-Inch Transparent OLED Kiosk April 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Shenzhen specialty firm CEOLED Display has made its main focus the hard slog of pushing pricey transparent OLED displays in a variety of configurations as commercial screen alternatives to more conventional and less costly product types like LCD. Now it has started marketing a transparent OLED-based kiosk with a 55-inch screen. The push on …
That Canadian QSR’s Menu Displays Were Compromised, Taken Over, Using Phishing April 17, 2025 by Dave Haynes I’ve not seen anything formally from the operator or its suppliers about that system-wide hack last week of digital menu displays at a Canadian QSR chain, but Sixteen:Nine’s German language content partner invidis got some in-bound clarity about what happened. About this time last week the order counter and drive-thru displays at Mary Brown’s Chicken …
How Pro AV Is Trying To Navigate All The Tariffs Uncertainty: AVIXA Experts April 17, 2025 by Dave Haynes The pro AV trade association AVIXA has a market intelligence team that steadily looks at the U.S. and global business from key angles like growth and overall health, as well as the impacts of factors like supply chain (huge during the COVID era) and most recently, tariffs. They do a video podcast called Exceptional Insights, …
SmarterSign’s Gregg Zinn On Mastering And Optimizing Digital Menu Board Layouts And Designs April 16, 2025 by Dave Haynes Digital menu boards have long been marketed and positioned as a way to deal digitally with how what’s available to order can change through a business day. I’d argue much of the critical thinking around how to do menu boards well hasn’t progressed much beyond ensuring the item descriptions and prices are large enough for …
Free Futuresource Analysis Looks At Industry Perspective, Workarounds For Current Tariffs Turmoil April 16, 2025 by Dave Haynes 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 …
Ticketing Starts (And Likely Ends) Tomorrow For XUSC Mixer At InfoComm April 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
