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SNA Displays Launches Free DIY Tool That Helps Visualize LED Projects At Ideation Stage

The direct view LED firm SNA Displays has launched a visualization tool that allows anyone from an integrator to architect to virtually design display projects in a variety of standard and custom environments. The new online, interactive tool was, understandably, built for SNA Displays’ prospective clients and its partner network, but is also available for anyone to use. […]

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Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:06 AM

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16:9: Sports Venues, Casinos Are Using Shutdowns To Do Display Upgrades

The sports and entertainment venues publication VenuesNow has an interesting piece up about how some stadiums, arenas and casinos are using shutdowns brought on by the pandemic to upgrade their visual display systems. The piece focused on Daktronics, which is among the biggest suppliers of direct view LED displays for those kids of spaces. […]

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Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 6:50 PM

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Planar Debuts All-In, Lease-based Bundle Program For Its Display Solutions

Portland, OR-based digital display company Planar has started marketing a bundled program that puts pretty much everything associated with a visual systems project into one fixed monthly cost. […]

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Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 8:07 AM

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768 Square Meters Of LED Video Wall In A Chinese Control Room

Command and control centers have long been touted as a big opportunity and natural application for direct view LED, and here’s a very large example of that happening. It is 768 sq. meters of 1.2mm fine pitch Leyard modules, resulting in a vast video wall at a facility somewhere in north China. […]

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Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 8:36 AM

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16:9: Direct View LED Display Market Grew 34.7% In 2019

Here’s some good news to take on-board during this dark business period, and a reminder that business will come back soon enough. Revenue in the worldwide LED video display market went up by 34.7 percent in 2019, driven by surging demand for fine pixel pitch (FPP) products. […]

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Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:22 PM

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16:9: Global Shipments Of Narrow-Bezel LCDs Growing Despite Rise Of LED Video Wall Alternatives

UK-based research firm Informa is suggesting narrow-bezel LCD video wall displays are still relevant and attractive despite many to most display manufacturers starting to heavily promote direct view LED as a new alternative. […]

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Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 7:00 PM

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16:9: NanoLumens Names Former Barco Exec Ney Corsino As New CEO

Ney Corsino Atlanta-based direct view LED manufacturer NanoLumens has named longtime Barco exec  Ney Corsino as its new CEO.  The announcement has just come out, but Corsino has been getting settled into the gig since January. […]

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Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 12:08 AM

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16:9: North America’s Busiest Mall Plans Big Digital Upgrade; Seeking Sales Proposals

Eaton Centre is a very large urban shopping mall in the heart of Toronto, just on the edges of the central business district.  The mall has been around for decades and steadily evolved. It is not quite as ritzy as Yorkdale, which is well away from downtown, but Eaton Centre’s high profile location and huge foot traffic attract a lot of premium retailers. […]

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Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 7:22 AM

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16:9: A V-Shaped LED Door Sign Meant For Streetfronts

The miniaturization of components is allowing LED to steadily be used in interesting new ways – from the base material like transparent films and super-thin foils to things like shape. This is a V-shaped LED display intended to be used as a hybrid architectural and branding device, that would be fixed above the entry to a shop or office on a high street. […]

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Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 8:42 AM

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Downtown LA Expands Digital Signage Footprint (DSConnection)

Digital Signage Stories, the official podcast of Digital Signage Expo and its editorial partner site DigitalSignageConnection.com, highlights successful digital signage projects and installations deployed around the world in a variety of different vertical markets. […]

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Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 8:33 AM

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16:9: Shanghai’s Pudong Airport Adds Massive LED Board In Departures Hall

This is a massive 178 sq. meter ad board at Shanghai Pudong International Airport, installed last year but just being touted now by LED manufacturer AOTO. The board is sold and presumably run by DOOH media giant JCDecaux . […]

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Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 9:47 AM

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A Different Take On The LED Waterfall Visual Trick, For Stand At UK Trade Show

The falling water thing on LED video walls has been done, a lot, but here’s a take on that visual that’s a bit different, and nicely integrated with a brand and strategy. It was the main feature of a stand for a bathroom fixtures (I think) company at a trade show earlier this week in Birmingham, in the UK. […]

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Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 2:24 PM

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16:9: SiliconCore’s Jim Wickenhiser Tries To Clear Some Fog Around LED Terminology And Tech

Trying to develop and maintain an understanding of the direct view LED industry is a challenge even for industry veterans. There’s a lot of different tech, a lot of jargon, and a lot of liberal interpretations of what something really is. One company’s miniLED may be the next company’s microLED. […]

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Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 5:14 PM

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16:9: Nordic Retailer Makes LG’s Transparent LED Film Part Of Flagship Store’s Design

Many people, myself included, have expressed a lot of interest and enthusiasm for LG’s transparent LED film, which has been shown at numerous trade shows but has not really shown up away from exhibit halls. […]

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Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 9:41 AM

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16:9: Daktronics Invests In MicroLED Start-Up X Display

Direct view LED manufacturer Daktronics evidently sees microLED as part of its indoor display future, having announced it was part of a Series A investment round in X Display Company (XDC), a Raleigh-Durham, NC start-up that “creates and owns leading intellectual property (IP) and capabilities in microLED mass transfer technology. […]

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Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 3:34 PM

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