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16:9: DOOH EV Charging Network Volta Does Special Purpose Merger; Hopes To Raise $600M

Volta Industries, which has a Digital OOH ad network built around electric vehicle charging stations, has announced plans for a merger with a special purpose acquisition company with hopes of generating $600 million for its network buildout. The overall value of the deal is estimated to be $1.4 billion. The deal comes just three weeks since Volta announced a $125M raise. […]

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Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 9:49 AM

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16:9: Shenzhen’s LP Display Marketing DV-LED Posters Hardened Against Damage, Abuse

Email pitches come in day and night from lesser known Chinese DV-LED display manufacturers, showing me their versions of displays and infrastructure. I look at them, but it’s rare when there’s anything new to write about. And really, most of the people e-mailing seem to want me to batch-order product. […]

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Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 8:23 AM

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16:9: Austrian Shoe Outlet Gets Beyond The Rectangle With Interesting Video Wall

This is a really nice outlet shoe store in Feldkirchen, Austria that has an interesting mosaic video wall at the checkout and service area, and works other displays into the store fixtures. Designed by umdasch Store Makers, the legero united “shoemakers outlet” puts four brands – legero, superfit, VIOS and Think! – under one new roof in the circle-shaped store. […]

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Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 8:15 AM

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16:9: Cowboys Kit Out Home Stadium With More Than 1,000 New LG Displays

The fit-out is pretty standard concession and concourse stuff, but it’s hard to ignore a digital signage project that involves more than 1,000 screens in one venue. The NFL’s Dallas Cowboys play their games at AT&T Stadium, which upgraded its fan areas with a few truckloads of LG commercial displays. […]

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Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 6:27 AM

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Ping HD Digital Menu Boards, Daktronics Video Boards Highlight Super Bowl LV Tech

Super Bowl LV at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., will undoubtedly look a little different this year, but it’s not stopping the hosts from serving up their typical gameday menu, even the crowd will be significantly smaller than a typical gathering for the annual NFL championship game. […]

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Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 12:42 PM

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16:9: MicroTouch Interactive Display Brand Back; TES America Revives After Buying From 3M

If you were somebody who bought or specified 3M interactive touch products, the familiar MicroTouch line of touch monitors sold for many years by that Minnesota tech giant has been re-launched via a separate company, TES America. […]

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Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 1:28 PM

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16:9: Jakarta Integrator Gets Beyond Rectangles With Curvy, Ribbon-Stripped Lobby Video Wall

This is a nice example of using flexible direct view LED modules to work with curves and make a relatively small video wall visually interesting. It is in the lobby of the Jakarta-based AV systems integrator V2 Indonesia, and is using the flexible product from Hong Kong-based Lighthouse. […]

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Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 8:52 AM

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16:9: LCD Display Prices Continue To Rise. Here’s Why …

Graphic: LCD TV Panel Prices January 2020 – June 2021 – Source: DSCC I’m hearing from some industry friends that LCD display panel prices are rising – which on the surface likely seems incongruous, given the economic slowdown and widespread indications that a lot of 2020 and 2021 display projects went on hold because of COVID-19.  On the other hand, people are watching a lot more TV, and I saw a guy at Costco the other day with two big-ass LCD TVs on his trolley. […]

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Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 7:32 PM

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16:9: Horse Auction Firm Uses Data-Driven LED Displays For Running Sales Events

This is not the most exciting use case I’ve seen for digital signage, but as noted endless times, useful and efficient is often more meaningful than Wow Factor jobs. In this case, it’s a horse auction company that uses DV LED screens, BrightSign boxes, and live data feeds to show the state of affairs on auction days. The set-up is at Tattersalls auction houses in the UK and Ireland. […]

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Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 7:31 AM

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16:9: inLighten’s Orbit Puts Multiple Promos On Screen At Once; Then Makes It Interactive

Stumbled across this interesting retail application by the upstate New York digital signage CMS and solutions firm inLighten. It’s very reminiscent of the wave of social media visualizations from a few years ago that scraped Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest feeds to put various posts on to a digital canvas, and give them a little movement. […]

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Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 11:54 AM

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16:9: Iceland’s National Theatre Upgrades With Digital Promo Posters On Art Deco Facade

Here’s an effective use of outdoor digital displays used as replacements for print posters – in this case at the National Theatre of Iceland, in Reykjavík. Last summer, according to a case study from screen supplier Peerless AV, the theatre’s technical team were tasked with finding an alternative to the old traditional static signage at the front ofthe 1950s-era art deco building. […]

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Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 8:36 AM

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16:9: Video: Dancing Bodies Latest Public 3D Art On That Seoul LED Display

This is the very latest public art piece developed for that big wrap-around Samsung LED display in a Seoul shopping district. The video, like previous ones, was created by the Seoul digital shop D’strict. Like the others, it’s amazing. […]

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Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 8:14 AM

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16:9: Firefly Wants To Generate Buzz By Putting Its Taxi-Top Screens On Tesla 3s In NYC

The VC-funded DOOH media start-up Firefly is looking to generate some buzz by putting its taxi-top ad displays on a new fleet of Tesla 3 electric vehicles that have been approved for use in New York City. The EVs are run by a taxi concession licensee called Drive Sally. The company says it is the only taxi operator using EVs. […]

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Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 12:00 PM

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16:9: DV LED Special Report – January 2021

The Jan. 2021 Direct View LED Special Report by Sixteen:Nine is now available for free download. There are no strings attached. […]

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Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:35 PM

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16:9: STRATACACHE Hopes To Be Producing MicroLED Display Chips In US By Q4 2021

More details are starting to emerge about STRATACACHE’s intentions for that microLED production facility the company is spinning up in Eugene, Oregon. The new factory, reports microled-info, will be a complete microLED production line, from epiwafer (on 300 mm silicon wafers), through transfer process and to final module assembly. […]

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Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 7:57 PM

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