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16:9: Duty Free At Istanbul’s New Airport Features Some 1,000 Sq. Meters Of LED Display

Istanbul’s new airport – which when fully built out is expected to be the world’s busiest – already has the biggest duty free store, fronted by a giant LED media facade. The Unifree Duty Free zone in the airport is the size of nine soccer fields, with 53,000 square meters of perfumes, watches, scarves, chocolates and booze. […]

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Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 6:21 AM

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Comcast Refreshes Tech And Content For Its Amazing Philly HQ Lobby Wall

Direct view LED is now shaping design decisions for commercial property owners and architects who want to deliver something special in the main lobby of a building. You’re seeing more and more stories about buildings that have made an entire feature wall digital and dynamic, as a way to create visual excitement and both attract and retain tenants. […]

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Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 7:59 AM

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Giant LED Flame Display Highlights Iconic Welcome Sign At New Hard Rock Resort

This is the signature display outside the new Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sacramento at Fire Mountain, kinda east and a bit north of San Francisco. The resort is a partnership between the Enterprise Rancheria Tribe and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and sits on 900 acres. The hotel and casino was entirely built in just 15 months. […]

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Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 10:35 AM

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Experience Center Uses Transparent Film LED As Room Divider Panels

Here’s a case where transparent LED doesn’t look so bad from the rear – the big differences being the tech used and the way these glass room dividers are set in place and used. This is a project the workplace design firm Gensler did for the Enterprise wing of HP, at its headquarters customer experience center in Palo Alto. […]

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Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 8:33 AM

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16:9: The Problem With “Transparent” LED, In Two Images

Transparent LED mesh displays have come a long, long way in terms of resolution and scale, and the tech’s ability to deliver tight and bright visuals. In the right setting, it can look really good, particularly at a distance. For glass curtain walls that aren’t really windows, that people don’t really look out, they’re a great option. […]

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Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 8:47 PM

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16:9: Updated 1,500-Foot Fremont Street LED Canopy Now Live In Las Vegas

Danville, Ill.-based LED manufacturer Watchfire Signs says work is now complete on what is touted as the world’s largest single video screen, a renovated Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas. Watchfire won the $30 million deal last year and says the project was delivered on budget and ahead of a schedule that had schemed in a “grand reveal” on New Year’s Eve. […]

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Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 8:31 PM

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Charlotte Office Block Lights Up Vast 4K, Data-Driven LED Lobby Wall

This is a 64 foot wide by 36 foot tall LED wall that fills the feature wall of the lobby of the Legacy Union building in Charlotte, NC – which runs algorithmic, experiential digital artwork, bolstered by custom sound. The building is part of a mixed use commercial development downtown, near the NFL stadium. The NanoLumens screen is touted as the largest native 4K LED display ever installed. […]

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Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 7:20 AM

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16:9: 175-Foot Wide Curved LED Marquee Lights Up At North End Of Vegas Strip

If you know Las Vegas, you probably know the intersection on the Strip down by the Venetian, Fashion Show Mall and Treasure Island resort. Like much of the Strip, this area seems to steadily evolve, and the corner that is part of TI has just lit up a huge, curved LED board touted as the 2nd biggest on that LED-riddled roadway. The beast sits atop a 24-hour CVS drug store. […]

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Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 12:18 PM

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16:9: Start-up Firefly Starts Using 2mm LED For Rideshare And Taxi-Top Ad Screens

The Silicon Valley media start-up Firefly, which puts car-top media screens on taxis and ride-share cars, has started using 2mm pitch LED displays that it says delivers 4X the visual crispness of competing display systems. The new product – called Sunrise – supplants previous car-toppers that used 4mm pitch LED. […]

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Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 3:01 PM

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16:9: Low Rez LEDs Make Big Visual Impact At Revitalized Montreal Office Block

I think there is pretty widespread affection for the idea of energizing a building lobby with an LED-filled feature wall, but equally widespread horror at the cost of doing that. Some of the projects that have been done to date – like the work in the lobbies of Salesforce and Netflix – are amazing visually, but would have cost some serious, serious coin. […]

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Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 6:28 AM

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16:9: LED Fills Entire Wall At Regional Bank’s Newest Branch

This is a screen grab (video in embedded tweet below) of a direct view LED video wall being tested at a branch of Amerant, a regional, Florida-based community bank. The fine-pitch LED fills the rear wall behind the customer service counters and wraps around a doorway. It is reminiscent of what has been happening in the lobbies of office towers, but in this case, it is a bank branch. […]

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Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 8:25 AM

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16:9: Intel Opens Screen-Filled Smart Building Near Tel Aviv

Intel recently opened an awfully nice, screen-filled development center in Petach Tikva, Israel – which is an eastern suburb of Tel Aviv. The 800,000-square-foot, 11-story building brings together 2,000 employees who had been scattered in eight buildings across five campuses. […]

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Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 9:26 AM

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16:9: Now That Coca-Cola Times Square LED Appears To Be Under Repair

Maybe this routine maintenance. Maybe they’re cleaning off city grime. But whatever the case, that ill-fated kinetic Coca-Cola LED display in Times Square had workers and window-cleaner style scaffolding up on Friday. […]

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Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 8:55 AM

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16:9: Harvard Biz School Adds Massive 62-Foot Fine-Pitch LED Screen To Main Auditorium

The adoption rate for direct view LED seems to to be steadily increasing, at the same time as the variety of potential applications keep broadening. I’d not really considered giant fine-pitch LED displays as workable options for lecture hall backdrops, but when you’re the Harvard Business School and have many very rich graduates, all things are possible. […]

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Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 12:46 PM

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16:9: Live Data Sculpture On Warsaw Mall Facade Reacts To Nearby Pedestrians, Traffic

This is a live data sculpture on a large street-facing LED display on a mall in Warsaw, Poland. […]

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Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 8:47 AM

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