Raw Feed & Search

Twin Experiential LED Video Walls Light Up Lobby Of Chicago’s Aon Center

The Aon Center, one of Chicago’s tallest and most recognizable buildings, has followed the lead of some other major commercial office properties in turning a feature in the lobby to a giant LED digital wall. Part of a recent renovation of its lobby and atrium included a pair of 42-foot-wide by 10-foot-tall direct view LED walls running custom-designed motion graphics and video content. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 4:10 PM

Permalink

16:9: LG To Show 8K OLED At CES; Samsung Rumored To Show Micro LED TV

Numerous tech blogs are reporting that LG will be showing an 8K OLED display this year at CES. The 88-inch display has a resolution of 7680×4320, which is 33 million+ pixels. “The successful development of the world’s first 8K OLED display is a milestone for the 8K era and underscores the exciting potential of OLED,” says In-Byung Kang, Executive VP and CTO at LG Display. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 1:45 PM

Permalink

16:9: North America’s Largest Transparent LED Wall Goes Live at Canada’s National Arts Centre

Last night, on a very frigid New Year’s Eve, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada officially switched on a three-storey signature LED display called the Kipnes Lantern. It is the largest transparent LED screen in North America and fills the windows of the newly rejuvenated building in the capital city. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 9:57 AM

Permalink

16:9: Pro AV 2017 – A Year In Review

GUEST POST: ALAN BRAWN, BRAWN CONSULTING When most of us think about evolution, we think in terms of slow change over decades or even centuries. Alan Brawn When we see change in front of our very eyes, that’s something else. Some might even call it disruption. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 7:11 PM

Permalink

Sixteen:Nine’s Best Of 2017

I’m working with a UK company on formal awards – and at some point I might actually have time to review the entries (there are numerous judges) – but I have my own thoughts on what impressed me in the past year. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 2:53 PM

Permalink

See How A Lexus Gets Lit Up And Reactive With 42,000 LEDs

Hat Tip Tom McGowan … This is about a year old but the first I’ve seen of an interesting car launch promo – tied in with a music video – that uses almost 42,000 hand-applied programmable LEDs to light up a Lexus luxury sedan. Three distinct modes, says a press release, allow the LIT IS to interact with sounds and people in its vicinity. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 1:29 AM

Permalink

16:9: Digital Signage Installation Nightmares, And ‘The Chosen Ones’

GUEST POST: Luis Villafane, MALER I have been running digital signage hardware since 2001, and over all that time I’ve only found a handful of devices I’d call “The Chosen Ones” – gear I was comfortable putting in production environments. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 3:34 PM

Permalink

LCBO Pop-Up Booze Store Uses Digital Touchpoints To Market Wine, Whiskey

When I think of pop-up stores, I think apparel start-ups. But in Toronto, Ontario’s giant booze monopoly is running a pop-up store for the holiday season that includes several digital components. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:08 AM

Permalink

16:9 Projects Podcast: 127 Feet Of Amazing Experiential LED At Chicago’s 150 N. Riverside

Chicago’s 150 Media Stream is a 127-foot long and 19-foot high permanent installation in the lobby of the new 150 North Riverside office building. It is comprised of 89 individual vertical LED displays or ‘blades’ creating a canvas of over 3,000 square feet. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 12:11 AM

Permalink

Denmark’s Realfiction To Launch Large-Format Hologram-like DeepFrame At CES

The Danish company that has shown small pyramid-shaped hologram-like displays at recent Digital Signage Expos will be showing a much larger take on  mixed reality at the upcoming CES show in Las Vegas. Realfiction will he unveiling DeepFrame, a large glass window that uses the reflection of an OLED display’s image to create an overlay on what people are looking at. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 8:32 AM

Permalink

Free Xibo Digital Signage CMS Adds Commercial LG webOS Player

The open source digital signage CMS Xibo now has a software player that will work happily with LG’s webOS smart displays, but it’s not free like the mothership CMS. The new webOS player has a one-time fee of 120 GBP, or about $160 USD. If you equated that to a SaaS fee over three years, that would be  less than $5/month. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:13 AM

Permalink

Delta Displays Touts Series Of Standardized 16:9 LED Set-Ups

Fine pitch LED displays tend to be fitted to the necessary display area – like a lobby or feature wall area that is some sort of rectangle. They’re sold by modules and all those modules tile together to create the necessary shape. So it’s interesting to see a company marketing a solution that is based on a set of fixed sizes and standardized cabinets and mounting systems. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:40 AM

Permalink

Hospital Deep In Hot, Bone-Dry Mojave Desert Gets Waterfall Feature, Via LEDs

A U.S. Army Medical Command facility built a waterfall in the Mojave Desert to create a soothing feature in the building’s lobby – but used LED displays instead of real water. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 1:00 PM

Permalink

Media Studies College Makes Giant Trapezoidal LED Display Lobby Centerpiece

This is the lobby of the new home for the Creative Media Industries Institute (CMII) on the campus of Georgia State University, with the focal point a 34-foot wide trapezoidal curved LED display. The downtown Atlanta building is home to the university’s digital media and film industries studies. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 9:09 AM

Permalink

Why All Room Management Signboards Are Not Created Equal

Guest Post: John Wang, IAdea The modern workplace is undergoing a digital transformation, reinvented with the latest technologies to strengthen employee productivity, improve returns of investments on the facilities and enhance corporate image for visitors. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 8:34 AM

Permalink