I’m not much of a fan of those madly-spinning LED light wands that kinda sorta do 3D holographic images, because eye candy tends to have a short shelf life and things that spin eventually fail. But the UK company that is the market leader for the tech may have found a good logical home for them – retail end caps. […]
I joke with industry people that my new home city of Halifax is a bit of a black hole when it comes to digital signage activity, having moved here in 2018 from Toronto, which has long been an epicenter of the business. The only directly active company in the vicinity is ScreenScape, and those folks are three hours away on tiny, beautiful Prince Edward Island. […]
Via Display Daily and Digitimes … One of the two big barriers facing the development of microLED displays is figuring out how to mass transfer a lot of the microscopic LED lights at once, since current high-speed manufacturing methods are too slow to make larger screens feasible. […]
Like a lot of people in the digital signage industry, I tend to think about video walls in terms of the display hardware, and what’s running on those big beautiful screens. I know precious little about what’s happening behind the wall to ensure it all looks good. […]
When I first saw Christie’s second-generation MicroTiles back this past winter at ISE in Amsterdam, my first reaction was probably like many, as in: “Those are LEDs, not MicroTiles!” They looked good and had a different structural set-up, but I wasn’t getting it. MicroTiles, as I knew them, were small display cubes unrelated to LED. […]
Samsung has rolled the sales and marketing teams of Prismview – the LED company that grew up as Yesco – into its overall display sales team. Utah-based Prismview – which got the new name after it was acquired in 2015 by Samsung – had been operating as a subsidiary until this change, announced today. […]
A reader pointed out a second digital signage screen hack from this weekend, this one on a digital OOH highway billboard in suburban Detroit. The big digital board was, like one in Auckland, NZ, showing porn video material. The Detroit Free Press reports it happened late Saturday night and the racy material was up for passing motorists for 15-20 minutes. […]
NEW YORK CITY —SNA Displays has promoted the head of its North American Channel program, Rick Bortles, to lead its global sales operations, citing a desire to consolidate its sales and marketing efforts across its various sales divisions. “We’ve had such enormous growth in the last few years,” said Dennis Hickey, president of SNA Displays. […]
If the need to lock down a public-facing digital signage display wasn’t obvious already, here’s an example from New Zealand of what happens when operators either don’t, or don’t do it well enough. […]
Commercial display companies are always and understandably looking for ways to differentiate their products from other manufacturers that make, to most eyes, pretty similar-looking versions of the same thing. So it was interesting to read news that Taiwan-based BenQ has announced the launch of what it touts to be the world’s first digital signage display series to be Pantone Validated. […]
I was in Taiwan recently for a trade show called Touch Taiwan, and managed to grab 20 minutes with Paul Peng, the Chairman and CEO of display manufacturing giant AU Optronics. AUO is based in Taiwan, with its main office about an hour south of Taipei in the manufacturing city of Hsinchu. […]
Research firm DSCC’s Quarterly Display Supply Chain Financial Health Report suggests the major display panel makers in China, Korea and Taiwan are in the midst of a rough patch, with nine of the 13 panel makers tracked having year to year revenue declines. The industry tracking also suggests many of the companies recorded losses in the last couple of quarters. […]
This is a pivoting LED display that would go nicely in something like an airport or exhibition/convention hall, with a set of five blades that can link up as one large face or break out and pivot separately. The manufacturer is PJ Link, and this was/is at LED China, which I think was last week in Shanghai. […]
I’ve seen projection on sliding glass doors, but this transparent mesh LED that’s attached in some way to a pair of glass sliders that serve as an entry to a shop, or something, in China. A sensor triggers the doors to open and content to change as someone approaches and passes through. This is from a Shenzhen LED company called OColour. […]
LG has gone very big on OLED displays in recent years – making the super-thin, flexible and generally gorgeous displays the centerpiece of the company’s marketing efforts at trade shows. They bend, they curve, they hang like wallpaper and for some of them, they’re see-through. […]
