Adam Schmidt, executive VP of sales, marketing and service at Planar, recently answered 3 Questions about the Planar EverCare Lifetime Limited Warranty program and how it benefits integrators and advances the cause of LED displays in general and the Planar TVF Series specifically. […]
The U.S. government’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has put together a partnership with the big OOH/DOOH media company Lamar Advertising Company to show emergency alerts on its many digital billboards. The emergency alerts, provided through FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS), will be displayed on select Lamar digital billboards throughout the country. […]
SNA Displays recently opened an expanded Atlanta-area office that will serve as a training hub for the company’s North American operations. Employees from SNA Displays’ channel partner program will permanently operate out of the new facility. “The location is the perfect spot for SNA Displays’ new training hub,” said Rick Bortles, VP of global sales at SNA Displays. […]
The legendary German pro football club FC Bayern Munich opened a new flagship store in central Munich, with a signature interactive feature an AR-driven display that allows fans to take virtual selfies with their favorite players. […]
Larger-sized e-paper displays have been around the marketplace for a while now, but a combination of price and applicability for projects have seemed to limited their adoption I think one of the big challenges is working with what you have, and making the most of that, and few people seem to do that better than the folks at the e-paper-focused Slovenian firm Visionect, which has started marketing a 32-inch monochrome e-paper display for workplaces. […]
Various tech blogs are reporting that Samsung is planning to launch a 110-inch microLED TV for the consumer market early in the new year. It’s not clear from reports whether the display will be a fixed-size version of The Wall, the company’s flagship product series for microLED, or something marketed as a different brand. […]
Three small Israeli tech companies have teamed up on a solution aimed at enlivening the logo walls that seem to be showing up at every pre and post-game media discussion in professional and even high-level amateur sport. […]
LG is working with a Swedish access control company to commercialize automated entry doors that have transparent OLED displays embedded in the sliding glass doors. The new product uses LG’s 55-inch transparent OLED signage display and runs LG’s own CMS SuperSign software, paired with the technologies that drive manufacturer ASSA ABLOY’s Entrance Systems. […]
A Chicago company that specializes in thin, flexible lighting arrays has completed a fundraising initiative that will help get it into the business of small, reflective displays for applications like retail digital signage. FLEx Lighting announced $9 million in funding, led by venture capital firm Anzu Partners, to grow and commercialize its new, tablet-sized reflective displays. […]
This is what is billed as a 4K resolution transparent LED media facade that was lit up recently at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, NY., home to an NBA team and venue for concerts and other events. The venue used ClearLED‘s WALL product series. It can do 8,000 nits of brightness, which presumably means daylight glare is not an issue. […]
Working with an automatic door manufacturer, LG is developing automatic doors that double as a transparent OLED display, giving customers the ability to kill two birds with one stone. In a press release, LG said the display-doors will be unveiled this week. […]
You’ve probably noticed quite a difference in the holiday shopping experience this year, because of ongoing fears and protocols related to the continued spread of the coronavirus across the U.S. and around the world. […]
The lowest priced product may actually result in higher project costs. It’s important that commercial integrators take the time to consider all aspects of a potential video wall installation when making a purchase decision. When purchasing video wall products, the selection of the product is just the beginning of the cost-benefit analysis. […]
There have been lots of examples of transparent and regular LCDs acting as cooler doors in grocery and other food and booze retail settings, but I think this is the first time I have seen using LED to surround cooler doors. It’s great. This is a special “Good Mood Food” section set up in select BP gas and convenience store operations in New Zealand. […]
A pair of tech research firms have produced an interesting report on the energy demands of consumer video devices, and produced some insights I am guessing are not widely known – notably that 8K displays are energy hogs. The joint study – called The Sustainable Future of Video Entertainment – was released by InterDigital and Futuresource. […]
