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16:9: This New Mexico Spin-out Making MicroLED Displays On Paper-Thin Metal Foil

I am virtually attending the Society for Information Display’s annual display-nerd festival – DisplayWeek. The live show was done in by COVID-19, but lives on as a virtual show. It is NO replacement for the real deal – having seen that last year in Silicon Valley – but a reasonable alternative, given our collectively crappy circumstances. […]

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Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 1:56 PM

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16:9: LG Starts Marketing Its NFC-driven, Cable-Free LED Display Series in the US

LG has started making some noise on this side of the Pacific about a new kind of direct-view LED video wall that connects, shares the signal and syncs between LED cabinets without using physical connectors. I wrote about the tech five weeks ago, when it was touted in South Korea. […]

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Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 9:00 AM

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16:9: Orlando’s New Airport Terminal Schemes In Big LED Display Plans

The new terminal rising at Orlando’s main airport – remember air travel? – is about 60% ready, and an update piece in the local newspaper indicates big direct view LED is central to the design and experience. […]

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Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 8:34 AM

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16:9: NBA Latest Pro Sports To Add Virtual Fans To Games Via LED

HT, Shea Darlison at Rise Vision for noting this … Professional sports teams have been and are trying to figure out how to get back to live competitions when packing people into their venues is not allowed. There are a few places around the globe where live sports is on and fans are allowed in the venues – like rugby in COVID-free New Zealand and baseball in South Korea and Taiwan. […]

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Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 7:43 AM

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16:9: Biggest Indoor LED Mesh Ceiling In N.A. Switches On … In Maine Furniture Store

The biggest indoor mesh LED ceiling in North America – unless you want to describe the Fremont Experience in Vegas that way – has been switched on in an unlikely location – a new furniture store at a mall in Portland, Maine. […]

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Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 12:08 AM

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MicroLED Display Tech Focus Of That Oregon Chipmaker Factory Bought In March By STRATACACHE

Chris Riegel has started talking about his plans for the big abandoned factory he bought in Oregon back in March. […]

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Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 2:33 PM

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10 Soaring LED Sculptures Greet Passengers Arriving At Dubai’s Int’l Airport

This is a very impressive temporary LED installation in the International Arrivals Hall of Dubai’s vast airport – the busiest on the planet. There are 10 vertical LED sculptures  wrapped around support columns that line a main walkway. Instead of those flexible, rounded LED modules, or thin strips, the install uses a set of 10m-tall individual columns, which reduced the cost. […]

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Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 7:23 AM

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16:9: NEXNOVO Launches Transparent LED On Glass Displays

Shenzhen-based LED manufacturer NEXNOVO has focused for several years on semi-transparent displays fixed on mesh, but it has now added a new product that puts the LEDs on glass and offers a lot more transparency. Called NexEsign, the product uses “NEXNOVO’s patented integrated-IC technology and nano film circuits. […]

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Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 8:01 AM

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29 Billion Pixels Of Virtual Water Falls In This Aquarium’s Lobby

The folks at the creative shop Fusion CI are particularly known for computer-generated visual effects that feature water, and this is a great example of their technical chops. The St. Louis Aquarium in that Missouri city has a big LED feature in its Grand Lobby that arcs down to a giant clock face. […]

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Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 7:17 AM

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16:9: New Vegas Casino Resort Previews Giant 100,000 Sq. Ft. LED Facade

Hat Tip – AV Interactive A new casino resort going up on the Las Vegas strip, and set to open in summer 2021, previewed this past weekend the massive LED screen that is effectively one whole facade of the hotel complex. Resorts World Las Vegas switched on its 100,000-square-foot direct view LED screen on its west tower on the 4th of July, running a digital fireworks show. […]

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Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 12:44 AM

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Digital Screens Onscreen: How Digital Displays and Projectors Can Help Save Entertainment (DSConnection)

The Entertainment & Recreation industries, like most modern arenas of business, have been uniquely impacted by the COVID-19 shutdowns and confusion. Many film and serialized television projects have been postponed or canceled due to the pandemic, and those that have soldiered through have had to reduce locations shoots to accommodate tightening budgets and travel restrictions. […]

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Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 9:14 AM

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Vast LED Halo Video Board Lights Up At LA’s New NFL Venue

It’s not at all clear when fans or even players will be inside big U.S. pro and college sports venues again, but one of the NFL’s new stadiums has upped the same on center-hung LED video boards. This is the new SoFi Stadium that will be home to the LA Rams. […]

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Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 9:25 AM

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16:9: LG Launching New LED Wall Product That Uses Contactless Connectors

The Korean business publication Pulse has a post up about a new kind of LED video wall from LG Electronics that connects, shares the signal and syncs between LED cabinets without using physical connectors. The display modules look pretty normal, but the innovation is how they inter-connect when stacked and tiled to make a video wall. […]

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Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 7:45 AM

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ViewSonic Branches Into Workplace-Focused All In One LED Video Walls

Taiwan-based display manufacturer ViewSonic has been focused lately on LCD-driven collaboration displays for workplaces, so it’s logical to see it branch into large but packaged-up direct view LED displays – launching a pair of all-in-one video walls intended for office lobbies and boardrooms. […]

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Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 7:36 AM

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16:9: Giant Robotic “3D” LED Board Lights Up In Kuala Lumpur

There are still media companies and property owners enchanted by the sight of robotic 3D LED displays – even if a version use by one of the world’s biggest brands in the epicenter of the world’s biggest media market was something of a technical disaster. […]

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Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 7:50 AM

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