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Display Week: Need A Bigger Desktop Monitor? How About A 89-Inch Curved MicroLED?

I am looking at a big, curved monitor as I type this, and while it seemed crazily large when I first got it, I’ve had it long enough now to vaguely think, “I’d maybe get something bigger if I could.” I would not, for example, say no to getting a real-world version of this prototype being touted at SID Display Week by the Taiwan microLED supplier PlayNitride. […]

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Tue, May 18, 2021 at 9:27 AM

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Smoothie King Moves Into 21st Century With Samsung Digital Displays (Commercial Integrator)

Thanks to Samsung’s digital display technology, several Smoothie King locations in the Southern and Midwestern U.S. were able to optimize visual presentation and help support a drive-thru business that served the vast majority of customers during the pandemic. […]

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Tue, May 18, 2021 at 8:00 AM

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Display Week: Japan Display Shows Transparent LCD As Variation On COVID Shields

Japan Display or JDI – a specialty LCD display manufacturer owned by Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi – had some of the more impressive tech at Display Week that last time it was an in-person show. This week, the company has a virtual stand at the event and I was intrigued by a link to a transparent display. […]

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Mon, May 17, 2021 at 2:19 PM

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Display Week: E Ink Shows Its Advances In Color, Motion E-Paper Displays

E Ink has a stand at the virtual SID Display Week, and this video (below) walks through where the company is at with things like showing color and animations. Every year, the product gets a little closer to something that competes favorably with more established technology, most notably LCD. […]

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Mon, May 17, 2021 at 1:38 PM

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Display Week: BenQ Touts Back To Back Transparent OLEDs; Use-Case Kinda Fuzzy

The Society For Information Display’s Display Week is now live – virtual like most things, still. It is a display nerd fest that is aimed much more at engineers than end-users, and it is a serious challenge for people like me who never even mused about a career in advanced polymers or electrical engineering. […]

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Mon, May 17, 2021 at 1:17 PM

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16:9: Coca-Cola Using LED Ribbon Strips to Drive In-Store Marketing in Moscow Grocery

This is an in-aisle merchandising set-up used by Coca-Cola in a supermarket chain in Russia. It is installed in Perekrestok (Crossroad, in English), in a mall in Moscow’s central business district. I don’t know whose LED ribbons are being used, but the CMS and play-out engine is the Swiss firm SpinetiX. […]

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Mon, May 17, 2021 at 9:00 AM

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LG Releases Pro:Centric Catena For Display Management (Commercial Integrator)

LG Business Solutions is releasing Pro:Centric Catena, a new display management system for businesses that allows for direct audio streaming to customers’ devices and gives integrators and end users more options to remotely manage displays. […]

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Mon, May 17, 2021 at 7:00 AM

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16:9: An Ikea Store You Can’t Get Lost In Relies on Digital Displays

If you stay away from Ikea because you’re sick of getting lost in the labyrinth design, you’ll like this new Ikea in the Causeway Bay area of Hong Kong. The store is a pop-up that is testing an ultra-small format until the end of October. You can’t buy flat-pack furniture or shelving units, but you can pick up everyday living items like kitchen items, small decor pieces and Swedish foods. […]

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Thu, May 13, 2021 at 10:30 AM

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Upcoming Webinar: “Achieving the Wow Factor With Limitless dvLED Solutions,” June 16 (Commercial Integrator)

In order to provide a memorable, engaging experience for their guests, companies are looking to upgrade their legacy video walls and projectors to a seamless dvLED experience. Many of those companies – possibly yours — also need to convert their meeting and/or public spaces to collaborative work environments. […]

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Thu, May 13, 2021 at 6:45 AM

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LG Touts New Tech That Allows Sports Bar Patrons To Hear Their Game Commentary

LG has started marketing tech that allows people in busy, noisy places like sports bars to whip out their smartphones and ear buds and listen to things like the live game commentary from a specific display screen, without that audio blasting over the in-house sound system. The concept is not new, but when I have seen this in the past, it was being marketed by little start-ups. […]

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Wed, May 12, 2021 at 9:22 AM

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Ford Patents Method To Scan DOOH Billboards, Push Versions Of Ads To Dashboard Screens

Auto manufacturer Ford has patented a method and apparatus for using AI-driven pattern detection to read digital billboards on highways, using the on-board sensors in new vehicles that are there for safety purposes. […]

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Wed, May 12, 2021 at 8:27 AM

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Destiny Worship Center Drives LED Video Walls on Multiple Campuses

Destiny Worship Center has installed Analog Way Pulse 4K systems with the Dante option on its Fort Walton Beach and Destin campuses. The powerful 4K60 multi-layer video mixers and presentation switchers drive custom-resolution LED video walls at both locations. […]

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Tue, May 11, 2021 at 5:09 PM

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16:9: New Research Suggests Touchscreens Leading Public Display Sector Recovery

As digital signage and retail tech sellers continue to tout touchless solutions – using voice, gesture, hover and QR-to-smartphone set-ups – the main buyers out there appear to be opting for screens that get touched. New research from OMDIA says the Interactive Touch (IFP/Touch) segment actually leads the recovery being seen in the total Public Information Display market. […]

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Sun, May 9, 2021 at 11:57 AM

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16:9: VSBLTY, Onyx Glass Partner On Idea Of Cooler As A Service For Digital Chiller Door Screens

The screens as grocery and c-store chiller doors thing has been around perhaps as long as a decade, and while marketplace adoption seems pretty limited to date, there are still companies getting into the concept and adding their own ideas on a special sauce, like AI. […]

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Fri, May 7, 2021 at 9:44 AM

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16:9: Starbucks Takes Digital End-Cap Concept Into the Aisles at ASDA Supermarket in UK

My Linkedin feed had a post up from the UK about a digital merchandising display for Starbucks in the aisles of an ASDA supermarket. The display is like a digital end-cap, except it was in-aisle and uses tactics like fins and angled displays to try to grab shopper attention. […]

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Thu, May 6, 2021 at 12:00 PM

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