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16:9: LED Board in Flames In Times Square A Mitsubishi, But Not Clear Display Was Fire Origin

That media display board that was on fire on the weekend was indeed a Mitsubishi LED display, but I’ve not yet found anything online explaining what happened. A creative friend who has generated content for that set of screens in Times Square suggested the fire may have been in the lighting columns that flank both sides of the screen. […]

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Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:52 AM

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16:9: Big DOOH LED Display Board Catches Fire In Times Square

A big LED display on the Reuters building in Times Square in New York, one of a few displays on the building, caught fire on Saturday afternoon. One side of the display burned, raining debris as it kept on playing ads. Billboard fire in Times Square this afternoon. […]

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Sun, May 19, 2019 at 6:04 PM

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74-LCD Video Wall Energizes JP Morgan’s Hong Kong HQ Lobby

This is a very nice, narrow-bezel LCD video wall in the lobby of J.P. Morgan’s Hong Kong offices. The wall had to somehow fit well in an elevator lobby area that was all of 12-feet wide. […]

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Fri, May 17, 2019 at 12:07 PM

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16:9: SNA Wins That Massive Times Square LED Video Wall Job That Includes Embedded Stage

Sansi, more widely known as SNA Displays, has won the LED job for that big new Times Square video wall that includes a built-in live performance stage. […]

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Fri, May 17, 2019 at 11:42 AM

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Sneak Peek: Big 4mm LED Wall Ready To Go In Charlotte Office Tower Lobby

This a 4mm pitch LED wall – a Nanolumens one – going in at the Charlotte head office of the real estate services firm Lincoln Harris. […]

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Fri, May 17, 2019 at 10:17 AM

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16:9: Pix And Vids From SID Display Week 2019

If you don’t use Linkedin much, here’s the many things I’ve posted over there in the last few days – embedded here as there are pix and short videos. […]

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Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:07 AM

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OLED Is A Thing, And Other Thoughts From SID Display Week

I pulled the ripcord this afternoon after 2.5+ days at Display Week. My brain hurt, and the symposium sessions in the afternoon looked terrifyingly technical. […]

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Wed, May 15, 2019 at 7:06 PM

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Dan Hagen Of 10Net, On Building Digital Signage In The Pacific Northwest

Dan Hagen is a relatively young guy, and a bit of an Energizer Bunny. I know of him as the 10net guy from Vancouver, but I was surprised to learn in a conversation that he has been involved in digital signage since before it was called digital signage. He was a funding founder of Mercury Online Solutions, which in the late 90s and early 2000s was a big player in this business. […]

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Wed, May 15, 2019 at 1:00 AM

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Day Two Impressions From SID Display Week

Random insights, so far, from SID Display Week in San Jose, CA: The display industry is slowing down, with compounded annual growth expected to sit at around 4% for next eight or nine years: Touch Display Report forecast; LCD sales will be flat-ish, over that time, but OLED sales will grow steadily: also from Touch Display Report forecast; It’s chilly here, which is a bit of a WTF? […]

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Tue, May 14, 2019 at 8:37 PM

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16:9: Trying To Nerd Out, And Mostly Failing, At Display Week

The Society for Information Display is a non-profit group run by display industry people, and it holds an annual trade show and conference that pulls in many to most of the top-level display engineers in that business. Display Week, as the event is called, is this week in San Jose, CA, and I am attending for the first time. […]

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Mon, May 13, 2019 at 6:05 PM

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16:9: Robert Heise On How GDS Sets Itself Apart In An Increasingly Crowded Outdoor Display Field

Most people think about northern Italy for wine, food, fashion and beautiful scenery, but it’s also home to some well-established technology companies like Global Display Solutions, or GDS. The company has been around for decades and built up a very solid business for rugged, industrial-grade displays for use-cases like bank ATMs. […]

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Wed, May 8, 2019 at 11:02 AM

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16:9: Walmart Opens AI-Driven Intelligent Retail Lab Outside NYC

Walmart has started testing computer vision and AI in a big way at an “Intelligent Retail Lab” lab on Long Island, outside New York City. The Walmart Neighborhood Market in Levittown, N.Y. has 1,000s of overhead cameras tracking the state and movement in the store aisles, as well as standard and interactive digital signage screens explaining the Lab and infrastructure. […]

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Mon, May 6, 2019 at 12:08 AM

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16:9: Cruise Line Uses Robotic Arms For Choreographed LED Screen Shows

Four Royal Caribbean cruise ships – the newer ones that are the size fully loaded container ships – are now using screens on robotic arms for entertainment. The cruise line’s Quantum Class ships – like the Spectrum of the Seas – have lounges with these dancing screens, using ABB robotics arms. […]

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Sat, May 4, 2019 at 7:43 AM

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16:9: From Oldest To Newest: Barclays Refreshes Massive LED Facade in NY Times Square

The UK-based investment bank Barclays has refreshed the LED displays on the facade of its New York City headquarters on Seventh Avenue, putting on 7,046 square feet of new direct LED. “The enhanced signage system is a powerful example of how we infuse digital innovation into everything we do here at Barclays,” says Richard Haworth, CEO of the Americas for Barclays. […]

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Fri, May 3, 2019 at 11:39 AM

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16:9: Company That Rents Physical Artworks To Businesses Adds Digital Signage Capabilities

A company that provides physical works of art as a service to property owners and companies has added digital capability, providing a presumably less costly alternative to custom creative for things like large format video walls. […]

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Fri, May 3, 2019 at 8:39 AM

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