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16:9: Chinese LED Maker Attaches Transparent LED To Sliding Glass Shop Doors

I’ve seen projection on sliding glass doors, but this transparent mesh LED that’s attached in some way to a pair of glass sliders that serve as an entry to a shop, or something, in China. A sensor triggers the doors to open and content to change as someone approaches and passes through. This is from a Shenzhen LED company called OColour. […]

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Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 8:12 AM

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16:9: Shanghai Spinoff Touting $30 AI-based Camera And Processor With Built-In Analytics Capabilities

A Shanghai spin-off company called HuskyLens is running a successful Kickstarter campaign for what is described as an easy-to-use AI-driven $30 USD camera that has built-in tech like face pattern and objection detection. […]

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Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 1:50 PM

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16:9: Display Market Analysts Expect 10% Cost Bump If Trump’s China Tariffs Kick In Sept. 1

The analyst firm DSCC, which focuses on the supply chain for the display industry, is suggesting the trade tariffs US President Trump will be imposing Sept. 1 on China could raise end-user costs by 10% across the range of electronics products coming out of that country. But it also suggests over-supply in the industry might actually push prices down in the short-term. […]

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Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 6:14 PM

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16:9: Real-Time AR-Driven Video Wall Engages Shanghai Subway Riders

This is a 10-metre (30-ish feet) wide interactive LCD video wall in a Shanghai subway station that is using augmented reality to get passengers excited about a lemon iced tea product. When people stand in front of it, their faces appear on the screen in real time, adorned by lemon filters and a Vita Lemon Tea box at their mouths. […]

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Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 7:40 AM

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16:9: Broadsign Gets Toehold In China With New Media Network Deal

Montreal’s Broadsign has secured its first toehold into the Chinese digital out of home media market, winning a deal to be the CMS software platform for Oriental Sunrise Media Group. The deal is just a few licenses, for now, but one of the active screens run by the company is also one of Asia’s largest digital displays – measuring 3,788 square metres. […]

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Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 1:40 PM

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This Crazy LED Chandelier Was Installed In A Chinese Lux Hotel

This is in a hotel – repeat, a hotel – in Foshan, China, about 90 minutes up a freeway from Shenzhen. It is an LED chandelier thingie (technical term) made up of five 4mm pixel pitch flexible LEDs, There are also 12 suspended LED columns. The thing can travel up and down more than 30 feet. […]

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Wed, May 22, 2019 at 6:14 AM

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16:9: LCD TV Shipments From China Increased 10X In Past Year

Chris Riegel,  CEO of STRATACACHE, had a guest post on here a few weeks ago about the very rapid rise of China as a large-format LCD display manufacturer, and its implications. Here’s more evidence of that sudden rise: Business information provider IHS Markit has a new report out suggesting shipments of large format LCD TVs from China increased 10X … in the past year! […]

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Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 8:32 AM

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Electronics Hardware Vendor Prepping Customers For Tariff-Based Price Hikes

Interesting to get a note just now from an American hardware manufacturer active in digital signage, indicating that its finished goods prices will be going up if US government-imposed tariffs on China take effect, as planned, on March 2nd. The tariffs, the company says, include a “number of hardware sub-components we use in our computer systems. […]

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Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 12:40 PM

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16:9: Research Suggests Biggest Panel-Maker On Planet Is China’s BOE

The conventional thinking would be that Samsung or perhaps LG would be the world’s biggest supplier of LCD TVs and flat panel displays, but new market research suggests it is Beijing-based panel maker BOE. Sigmaintell Consulting says that in 2018, BOE shipped 54.3 million TV panels, putting it well ahead of the shipping unit volume of second-ranked LG Display. […]

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Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 6:07 PM

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16:9: Chinese Beauty Brand Nu Skin Fills Shenzhen Flagship With Digital Screens

This is a very ambitious, digitally-rich flagship store for Chinese health and beauty brand Nu Skin, opened recently in Shenzhen. Toronto-based Shikatani Lacroix Design (SLD) worked with consulting firm MetaThink to build a store intended as an experience center that reflected the company’s story and brand culture, and showcased products. […]

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Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 8:44 AM

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16:9: Chinese LED Firm Marketing A Version Of That Failed Times Square Shape-Shifting Screen

One might have thought the shape-shifting LED display that Coca-Cola put in Times Square was such a disaster, as innovations go, that the market for such a product was created and killed in a matter of weeks. […]

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Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 5:45 AM

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Moving LED Ball Cloud Fills Canopy At Guangzhou Airport DOOH Media Installation

The new terminal 2 at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport in China (Guanzhou is in the same mega-city region as Shenzhen) has a set of very impressive digital OOH and ambient media pieces in called Cultural Sky Plaza, located in the center of the pre-security check-in area. […]

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Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 7:47 AM

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16:9: Shenzhen Ops Center Gets 121-Foot Wide Fine Pitch Monitoring Wall

  It hasn’t really happened in North America or, likely, EMEA, but in China, fine pitch LED is increasingly supplanting projection tiles, edge-blended projection and narrow bezels LCDs as the tech of choice for big control room environments. If the room is big enough and operators are set back enough, the clarity is there for MASSIVE walls of dashboard information and video feeds. […]

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Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 2:57 PM

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When We Said The LED Display Business Was On Fire In China, This Is Not …

Meanwhile, somewhere in China… Building isn’t burning so it appears there’s a bit of an issue with heating on this LED display that fronts a building. […]

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Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 3:25 PM

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