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16:9: London’s Cheese Grater Gets 2mm DV-LED Upgrade For Lobby

This is the updated reception lobby of The Leadenhall Building in the financial district of London – known by the nickname of The Cheese Grater, because of its tall wedge shape. The lobby originally had a 24-screen videowall, but the operators switched that out for direct view LED, putting in 32 sq. meters of 2mm Samsung on the wall in front of the elevator lobbies. […]

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Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:32 AM

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How the pandemic has affected Absen’s digital signage business (Installation-International)

By Rob Lane. Working for a Chinese manufacturer during these challenging times was eye-opening for me personally and, despite the difficulties we are all continuing to face, some optimism can be found from seeing the strong desire from our industry to recover through hard work and perseverance. […]

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Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 12:08 AM

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16:9: Leyard Turns On “World’s Largest” MicroLED Video Wall In Chinese EnergyCo Control Room

The giant Chinese LED display manufacturer Leyard has started manufacturing, shipping and installing large format microLED displays – with what it calls the world’s largest just lit up in a control room. The vast display was activated on Dec. 31, 2020 for CHN ENERGY. […]

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Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 2:41 AM

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16:9: Samsung Debuts 110-Inch MicroLED TV, With 4Vue, For CES 2021

CES 2021 is on, but it is virtual, so there’s no jammed trade show in Las Vegas and we will all likely see far fewer broadcast news stories about the buzzworthy, crazy or purpose-deficient gadgets being launched annually at this circus. The show is indeed on, though, and the big tech companies are still using the event as the launch platform for consumer electronics goods. […]

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Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 10:59 AM

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16:9: TCL Unveils Next-Gen Super-Thin, High-Contrast Displays Using MiniLED For CES

The Chinese electronics firm TCL is very much a consumer-driven company, but what happens with TVs often finds its way to commercial display design. It is CES this week and the firm announced a range of new products, including new miniLED-based TVs that show where that technology best fits on the commercial side of displays. […]

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Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 10:58 AM

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16:9: Ground-Level LED Billboard Bisected By Staircase Leading Into NJ Mega-Mall

This is an interesting use of outdoor direct view LED – a billboard-sized display at ground level that bisects a wide entry staircase. It just went in at the American Dream mega-mall in the New Jersey Meadowlands area, near New York City. […]

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Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 9:15 AM

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16:9: Sony Launches Two Next-Gen Crystal LED Video Wall Products

Sony Electronics has announced the next generation of its Crystal LED video wall display series – the technology that gained all the attention when Sony first launched Crystal LED. […]

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Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 6:25 PM

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16:9: 10 Times Square Adds 4-Board LED Array At High-Traffic NYC Corner

Here’s another example of real estate owners who live the “Location Location Location” mantra turning primo addresses into media sites: this one in NYC Times Square. There is now a four-screen outdoor LED array cladding the new Yard House restaurant at the corner of 41st St. and 7th Ave.  10 Times Square is owned and managed by L.H. […]

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Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 12:08 AM

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16:9: NYC’s New Moynihan Train Hall Features 1,700 SF Of 4mm LED

The Moynihan Train Hall opened for passengers last week in midtown New York City – an expanded, much more open and welcoming section of NYC Penn Station. Among the big visual features in open atrium passenger hall is a giant, old school analog clock and some 1,700 sq. feet of 4mm direct view LED. […]

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Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 8:17 AM

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16:9: Etisalat’s Dubai Mall Store Is Floor To Ceiling LED

And we’re back, kinda sorta gradually … Happy 2021! The wireless carrier Etisalat is based in the United Arab Emirates, and is the case with many or most high visibility efforts in Dubai, the company’s new flagship store in the Dubai Mall is seriously over the top with digital displays. […]

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Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 8:27 AM

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16:9: LG To Market New Line Of Premium LCDs As QNEDs

Technology marketers have a habit of playing a bit fast and loose with terminology, in an effort to gain a mindshare edge with buyers, I suppose. But their efforts also contribute to confusion. In the context of the display and signage industry, we’ve seen LCD displays called LED TVs, when they were LCDs with LED backlighting arrays that no one sees. […]

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Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 6:20 AM

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Happy Holidays! 16:9 (Probably) Off For A Few Days

It was around the middle of last week when the Happy Holidays emails from companies started coming in at pace, and conversely the daily torrent of news and PR pitch emails I get started to slow. It is Monday morning, with Christmas on Friday, and there is not a lot shaking, so don’t expect many posts for the next two weeks. […]

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Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 11:20 AM

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3 Questions About Planar EverCare with Executive VP Adam Schmidt

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. […]

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Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 12:21 PM

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16:9: LED Is The Primary Architectural Design Feature In This Shanghai Coach Store

This is a new immersive retailing store in Shanghai, run by the handbag and accessories brand Coach. Details are limited, but what I found on Linkedin says this is Coach’s first immersive digital store,  in Shanghai IAPM, which is an upscale mall. […]

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Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 12:08 AM

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16:9: New Bahrain Mall Features 8K Experiential LED Canopy Ceiling

This is a roughly 30 foot wide by 200 foot long LED canopy ceiling, doing 8K visuals, in the Mall of Dilmunia in Bahrain. It is an element of a digital out-of-home network in the mall, designed and integrated by Four Square Media, and using Navori’s CMS software. […]

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Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 7:36 AM

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