It is remarkable how many companies seem to be in the outdoor LCD display business – there has to be at least 20 companies at ISE all showing various iterations of a super-bright display in a metal box, for advertising street furniture, wayfinding kiosks and drive thru promo and menu screens. […]
I love the notion of transparent LED displays – the idea of taking a big surface and making it active, without also creating a big, solid wall that blocks the view in and out. There are “transparent” LED display products – tech that has matured to a level that they look great from the front, but still tends to look terrible from the back side that’s not illuminated. […]
The digital display supply chain analyst firm DSCC has a thorough piece up on its website about the impact the Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak is having on the display industry, noting how city lockdowns and factory closings have slowed or stopped production of some panels. […]
Start-ups have been trying to make toilets in restaurants and bars a digital OOH advertising environment for 15 years or more, and as the saying goes, everything old is new again. […]
Meeting room digital displays has been an interesting entry-level opportunity for companies in the digital signage ecosystem to start selling into workplaces that maybe don’t have their heads around a full solution. Screens at conference room doorways is a start, and I have had it confirmed many times that a simple solution like that often expands into a large digital signage solution. […]
The Slovenian tech company Visionect has announced something of a pivot in its business, shifting the focus from being hardware-led to offering an end-to-end solution based around its deep expertise in e-paper digital displays. […]
I always have mixed feelings around visual tricks designed to scare the living sh*t out of some unwitting visitors. It’s one thing if you are in a theme park or one of those Halloween pop-up places that are billed as scary. But introducing an abrupt scare into something that is, by nature, intimidating is one of those ‘Not sure about that …’ things. […]
David Nussbaum has years invested in the whole idea of creating what are called holograms – but aren’t – for high profile concerts and other events. If you remember seeing video of the Coachella festival a few years ago, and rapper Tupac “coming back to life” to perform, that was Nussbaum behind the scenes making that happen, through another company. […]
McDonald’s is without question a market leader and influencer in the QSR market, so news in the last two-three years that the chain restaurant giant was rolling out digital displays in its drive-thrus would certainly have been encouraging to any company developing and trying to market outdoor display technology. […]
More turbulence in the OLED display business – with a significant Chinese manufacturer bailing on the tech after only a year, and switching back to LCD. Hisense, which is mainly known for TVs but has a commercial displays business unit, has indicated that the OLED TV it debuted last year was the first and last. […]
A new grocery store that opened last month in Naples, FL is interesting in a couple of ways – its food offer and its use of digital. The Seed To Table Market store is owned and was built by a local grower, and the majority of the fresh food is grown, raised and harvested within a short drive of the store. […]
Integrated Systems Europe starts three weeks today in Amsterdam, and the PR is starting to roll in from display and software vendors, trumpeting what will be shown at stands at the big AV/IT trade show. A main thing I will be looking for that week is the expected advances in LED display tech, coming mainly out of China and Taiwan (but also Korea). […]
The argument can be made compellingly that a digital signage network operator can’t be expected to anticipate every crazy thing that might happen out at the displays, and I will therefore cut some slack for the IT people at Portland, Oregon’s airport – where a traveler turned a wayfinding sign at the terminal into a gaming monitor. […]
A report from the Taiwan-based tech publication Digitimes suggests the microLED displays that are mostly seen these days at trade show stands will start seeing broad adoption as early as 2024, for a few reasons. […]
One of the advantages of smaller, more intimate shopping malls and other public spaces is that when digital OOH screens go in, those screens don’t need to be overly big (and expensive) to stand out from the visual noise and be noticed. […]
