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BenQ Touts New “Pantone Validated” Digital Signage Display Series

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. […]

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Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 10:17 AM

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16:9: AUO CEO Paul Peng On How His Display Giant Plays In Digital Signage

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. […]

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Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 12:14 AM

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16:9: DSCC Research Shows Asian Panel-Makers Had Tough Couple Of Quarters

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. […]

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Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 9:06 AM

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16:9: Touch Taiwan Final Impressions

Heading home, yay, after almost seven days in Taipei for the Touch Taiwan trade show. By day three I had very thoroughly walked the floor and saw what I needed and what was relevant. It is a show focused on manufacturers and that ecosystem, which makes sense for a country known for its technology manufacturing. […]

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Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 7:22 PM

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16:9: How Integrators View The LCD vs LED Video Wall Decision

I sometimes get white papers and research that a vendor hopes I report on or talk about, and then decide against it because the information is hopelessly skewed in favor of that vendor. It’s a bit like those recipe pamphlets that suggest you don’t just add a cup of this, it has to be specifically the vendor’s “this. […]

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Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 8:28 PM

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Planar Starts Marketing 55-Inch LCD Line With Hair-Width Bezels

Planar has started making noise about what the display manufacturer says are screens that have the industry’s skinniest bezels. Planar and parent company Leyard says two new 55-inch models in the VM Series have a 0.88mm tiled bezel width. […]

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Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 1:27 PM

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16:9: LCD TV Shipments From China Increased 10X In Past Year

Chris Riegel,  CEO of STRATACACHE, had a guest post on here a few weeks ago about the very rapid rise of China as a large-format LCD display manufacturer, and its implications. Here’s more evidence of that sudden rise: Business information provider IHS Markit has a new report out suggesting shipments of large format LCD TVs from China increased 10X … in the past year! […]

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Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 8:32 AM

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16:9: In A Pool Of Display Sharks, China Is The New Apex Predator

Guest Post: Chris Riegel, STRATACACHE When I first saw this picture, I knew it reminded me of something, but I just couldn’t put my finger on it. […]

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Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 8:05 PM

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Venetian Resort Cocktail Bar Opens With 40-Foot Ambient Video Wall

Add this to your must-see rotation at Digital Signage Expo, or whatever next brings you to Las Vegas – a 40-foot wide high-rez display in a new Venetian resort bar. The new cocktail bar – Electra – is on an edge of the casino floor, and runs custom content developed by Chicago agency Digital Kitchen. […]

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Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 9:30 AM

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16:9: First OLED, Then QLED, And Now ULED

First there was OLED. Then QLED, which looks like OLED but is actually LCD tech. Now there is also ULED, which is like QLED, but different. […]

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Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 8:15 AM

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16:9: The LCD Bezel Battles Rage On, But Why?

Digital signage display manufacturers have been in a pitched battle for years over whose product has the skinniest bezels, ands therefore the least discernible seams in video walls. First, we had narrow bezel. Then super narrow. […]

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Tue, May 3, 2016 at 8:15 AM

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16:9: Chart: LCD’s Future Is Big, As In Big Screens, Says IHS

The latest IHS Digital Signage & Professional Displays Market Analysis – this one tied to Q1 2016 – says the slowdown in the economies of China, Latin America, and Eastern Europe actually shrunk the digital signage and professional display market by 3%, year on year, in 2015. But the market is coming around and is expected to grow by 2.9% in 2016, at 12.2 million. […]

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Mon, May 2, 2016 at 5:02 PM

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16:9: US Lobby Group Warns Ultra HD Screens Can Be Energy Hogs

Via Display Daily The emergence of LED-lit LCD displays and the disappearance of plasma displays would probably, reasonably, make end-users think that energy consumption is no longer much on an issue in digital signage deployments. LEDs, after all, are far more energy efficient than the older technologies that were light up flat panel displays. […]

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Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 2:03 AM

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