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16:9: Bahrain’s F1 Track Wraps Famed Tower in 360-Degree LED Rings

Motor speedways have such an interesting business model – giant footprints and very expensive infrastructure for hosting a handful of events annually. Consider this 360-degree LED installation on a building at the Formula 1 track in Bahrain, which has that one big race a year, and presumably a fraction of people passing through there the rest of a year. […]

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Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 11:00 AM

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Huge 50 Meter-Wide LED Video Wall Used As Changeable Set By Chinese State Broadcaster

This is a huge LED video wall – 50 meters by 10 meters tall – being used for an ever-changeable broadcast set by a Chinese state broadcaster. The curved wall was put up to help run a two-hour live TV event recently, called CCTV Consumer Rights Day Gala. I will leave it to other, more suitable forums to comment on China and galas about rights. […]

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Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:42 AM

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16:9: LED Pulse Turns Suspended Light Strings Into Low-Res Three-Dimensional Motion Display

Hat Tip – Sound and Video Contractor A Hong Kong company has started showing a display system that uses suspended LED strings – with each light emitter mapped and addressable – to create motion visuals that have volume and dimension. The system from LED Pulse is called Dragon O. It can be scaled up to fill a room or stage. […]

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Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:18 AM

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16:9: Growth Expected in Bundled, All-in-One DV LED Displays, Says Report From Omdia

There is now enough activity and demand in the area of all-in-one, bundled LED displays to warrant marketplace research and analysis, with a new report from the global research firm Omdia looking specifically at this narrowly-defined product category. […]

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Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 1:15 PM

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16:9: On the Executive Summary of IDtechEx’s Deep-Dive on MicroLED

The UK-based research firm and consultancy IDtechEx has pushed out an interesting discussion paper about the state and potential marketplace applications for microLED, sorting out its value proposition versus competing technologies like OLED and Quantum Dots LCDs. […]

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Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 10:30 AM

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AUO Latest Display Giant To Add MicroLED To Product Portfolio; Showing Demos At TouchTaiwan

I wrote earlier today about Touch Taiwan going ahead as a live trade show next week, aimed at a domestic crowd and in an island country that is seeing just a handful of new COVID cases day to day. An industry friend sent along a show promo video from AUO – a Taiwan company that is one of the largest flat panel manufacturers in the world. […]

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Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 1:02 PM

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Stratacache Ceo Details Plans For First Us Microled Display Plant

The trade publication i-micronews has a Q&A post up on its site featuring STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel, providing detail and color about his plans for that big, old semiconductor plant in Oregon that he’s turning into a microLED factory. […]

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Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 9:50 AM

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16:9: Next Store in UK Fills Checkout Zone With DV LED Wall

This is a Next fashion apparel and furnishings store in Leicester, UK (go Foxes!) that uses a sweeping direct view LED s the backdrop to its checkout counter. I like this because of the scale of the screen. LCDs and OLEDs are gorgeous, but they are either going to be screens hanging on a wall like paintings, or tiled together with seams. […]

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Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 9:00 AM

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16:9: LED China Attracting as Many as 50,000 People, 1,200 Vendors, This Week in Shenzhen

I’m not entirely sure what the COVID situation is in Shenzhen, China, but there is evidently enough comfort around healthy safety for the organizers of LED China to run a live show this week. The event started today, with 1,200 exhibitors and as many as 50,000 attendees, according to the website. There is an option to attend virtually, so that may account for a portion of those numbers. […]

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Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 8:17 AM

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16:9: DV LED Market Generally Rebounding, but Mainly in Chinese Domestic Market

The market research firm Omdia has logged predictably mixed results from direct view LED display manufacturers through the COVID-19 pandemic, though there are indications that the sector is generally rebounding. Omdia’s latest quarterly LED market tracker says recovery began in the third quarter and accelerated further in the fourth quarter. […]

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Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 11:25 AM

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16:9: LED Becomes The Walls In Nike’s Dubai Mall Store

This is a great example of the whole notion of how direct view LED can be something added to a store design, or in cases like this, how it can be the primary architectural design element. It is a Nike store in the huge Dubai Mall, and is a set of LEDs put in by local solutions architect 2Point0 Concepts. […]

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Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 11:00 AM

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16:9: Get Glimpses of the Big Samsung DV LEDs in New LVCC Loop Transport Stations

Here’s a look at the big DV LED screens that have been installed in the transport stations below the new parts of the Las Vegas Convention Center. They’re Samsung displays that, I assume, will be used mainly to promote specific events and main sponsors week to week in what is theoretically a situation that has some dwell time. […]

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Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 11:30 AM

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Absen Says It Has Built Asia’s Largest 8K Ultra HD Virtual Studio (Commercial Integrator)

We’ve written several times about the massive LED walls that are replacing green screens in some of film and TV’s most popular titles. Most notable including Disney+’s The Mandalorian. The technology, called Stagecraft, was developed by visual effects studio Industrial Light & Magic, a division of production company Lucasfilm, which was founded by “Star Wars” creator George Lucas. […]

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Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 6:00 AM

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Massive Samsung LED Wall Fills Lobby Wall In LVCC’s Almost-Open West Hall

While the pandemic has meant most people in our industry put a stop to pretty regular swings though Las Vegas for trade shows and conferences, that city’s primary convention center has been expanding its footprint and is just about ready to open. When I was last in that city, the LVCC expansion was just in its very early stages. […]

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Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 12:27 PM

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Giant Ferris Wheel Embeds Transparent LED For Grand-Scale Nighttime Visuals

I’m not sure where this is, but it is one of those giant tourist attraction ferris wheels that seem to be popping up in big cities, kitted out with a huge array of transparent mesh LED. The install is promoted by the lighting and LED company Qlite Global, which is based in south Wales, near Bristol, England. […]

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Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 10:53 AM

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