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Watch A Giant Polar Bear Walk Over Crowd On Chinese Attraction’s LED Canopy

This is a fairly amazing LED canopy ceiling in what I think is a theme park in Jinhua, China, a large city roughly south of Shanghai. Details are scant, as is often the case for projects only written about in local languages, but I think this is the Shanghai Bund theme park, which is a bit like Universal Studios in Los Angeles. […]

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Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 8:11 AM

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Scala Adds New Proprietary Media Players From Its Scala China Factory

Some of the reasons STRATACACHE has been building up a presence in China is growing evident outside that country, with subsidiary Scala announcing a series of proprietary digital signage media players coming out of  its Scala China factory. […]

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Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 7:40 AM

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16:9: Amazing: Chinese Firm Puts Out Sanitizer Kiosk Patent Claims; Day Later, Different Firm Clones That Claim

It’s unfair to be automatically dismissive of claims by Chinese companies that they have obtained patents on products, but entirely reasonable to be suspicious – given the history of copycat and counterfeit products that come by the container-load out of the country. […]

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Thu, May 7, 2020 at 7:38 PM

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16:9: Chinese Bricks And Mortar Back Open, But Sputtering In Recovery: Gartner Research

The research and advisory firm Gartner has an interesting piece up online about how retail is working in China, where COVID-19 started and has pretty much gone (maybe just for now). The piece suggests while stores are mostly back open, the aisles are not filled and bricks and mortar people are feeling even more pressure to add or shift to digital channels. […]

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Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 8:24 AM

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768 Square Meters Of LED Video Wall In A Chinese Control Room

Command and control centers have long been touted as a big opportunity and natural application for direct view LED, and here’s a very large example of that happening. It is 768 sq. meters of 1.2mm fine pitch Leyard modules, resulting in a vast video wall at a facility somewhere in north China. […]

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Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 8:36 AM

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16:9: LCD Manufacturing Getting Back To Normal In China; But Demand May Not Be There

Here is some mildly encouraging news – while North America and Europe are turning into big quarantine zones, China is coming out of that phase and technology manufacturing is getting back to normal. […]

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Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 7:01 PM

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16:9: Absen Says COVID-19 Crisis Not Affecting LED Product Availability Or Production

Chinese LED manufacturer Absen has taken the seemingly unusual step of pushing out an announcement designed to allay any concerns buyers may have about supplies of direct view module product in the midst of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) situation. There are many, many reports coming out of the Asian tech press about production slowdowns or shutdowns because of labor shortages and travel restrictions. […]

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Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 3:32 PM

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16:9: DSCC Analysis – How Coronavirus Is Affecting Display Panel Supplies

The digital display supply chain analyst firm DSCC has a thorough piece up on its website about the impact the Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak is having on the display industry, noting how city lockdowns and factory closings have slowed or stopped production of some panels. […]

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Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 10:55 PM

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16:9: ISE Confirms Some Chinese Exhibitors Will Be No-Shows, Amidst Coronavirus Outbreak

Integrated Systems Europe has confirmed in a statement that the numbers of China-based tech companies showing at the pro AV trade show next week has been thinned out by airline travel restrictions. […]

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Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 9:41 PM

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16:9: ISE Expects Chinese Attendee Numbers To Drop This Year, Owing To Virus Outbreak

ISE’s organizers are saying they expect visitor counts to be down from Chinese attendees when the show starts on Feb. 11 in Amsterdam – the drop owing to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. The show says 3.2% of the attendees in 2019 were from China. […]

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Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 7:44 PM

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16:9: Hisense Drops OLED To Focus On ULED As Its Premium Display Tech

More turbulence in the OLED display business – with a significant  Chinese manufacturer bailing on the tech after only a year, and switching back to LCD. Hisense, which is mainly known for TVs but has a commercial displays business unit, has indicated that the OLED TV it debuted last year was the first and last. […]

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Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 2:40 PM

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16:9: Chinese New Year Imminent, So Forget About Orders, Support For At Least A Week

If your technology comes from China or Taiwan – and it is VERY likely at least some of your digital signage components started there – the next few weeks will be interesting because of Chinese New Year, which is about to start. All major businesses in China and Taiwan pretty much shut down for at least seven days, including the factories and by extension, repair depots. […]

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Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 9:49 AM

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Government Office In West China Adds 140 Sq. Meter LED Lobby Screen

This is an utterly massive LED screen in what must be the lobby of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps’ Command Center. It is a 1.2mm Ledman chip on board display (COB is a different production method from most of the LED display you see out there) and has a resolution of 12,480 by 7290. That would be called 12K, I guess, though I am not sure there is such a thing. […]

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Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 8:29 AM

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16:9: Drone-Based Light Show Puts Giant Atop Skyscraper

Photo composite from Daily Star (UK) This is much more entertainment and spectacle than signage, but nonetheless a really interesting application of technology to form an animated display. Somewhere in China – not quite sure which big city, and there are many – a drone-based light show has a skyscraper-sized figure atop a skyscraper. […]

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Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 10:08 AM

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16:9: This LED Pivots And Shape-Shifts Using Industrial Robotics

This is a pivoting LED display that would go nicely in something like an airport or exhibition/convention hall, with a set of five blades that can link up as one large face or break out and pivot separately. The manufacturer is PJ Link, and this was/is at LED China, which I think was last week in Shanghai. […]

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Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 8:42 AM

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