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16:9: ISE 2019 – Final Thoughts and Impressions

Back at World HQ after a week in Amsterdam – and for the 2nd time in four ISE visits dealing with a whopper of a cold no doubt picked up when amongst 80,000 people. I have not seen formal attendance numbers, but assume foot traffic would be similar to or exceed 2018. It didn’t SEEM as busy, except for Wednesday, but the actual numbers will tell the story. […]

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Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 7:28 PM

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16:9: ISE 2019 Impressions From Day 2: Waves Of People, Drinks, Awards

This will be terse, as Wednesday was a full day at ISE 2019 – meetings, podcast interviews, booth tours, a mixer and an awards dinner. Crowd – It seemed slow-ish for a Tuesday but Wednesday was nuts … I’ve been subwaying it to the RAI but a breakfast in central made it necessary to Uber to the venue. Eventually, I got out and walked. […]

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Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 5:40 PM

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16:9: Lava Flows, Fluid Mechanics And The Deep Science Behind Video Wall Waterfalls

If you’ve been to the Salesforce headquarters in San Francisco, or certain resort casinos, you will have seen and been blown away by giant virtual waterfalls that appear on LED walls and wash down, over and around things like entryways. It’s kind of amazing, and way beyond much of what you see on big digital canvases – like big 4K stock videos or graphics. […]

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Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 2:07 AM

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16:9: Christie Launches Next-Gen MicroTiles Based On LED Display Tech

In an interesting and, I’d argue, puzzling move, Christie has re-launched its much-celebrated MicroTiles display series with technology that has very little shared DNA with the original, stackable projection cubes. The new MicroTiles are LED modules that are, in just about every respect, similar to the scores of other fine-pitch LED products out there. […]

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Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 12:09 PM

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LA Office Tower Video Walls Light Up To Support Rams’ Super Bowl Appearance

The LA-based design studio StandardVision collaborated with the LA Rams NFL team to develop content celebrating the team’s season and its appearance in Sunday’s Super Bowl game, against  the New England Patriots. […]

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Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 1:28 PM

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16:9: Irony: Coke’s Times Square LED Board Shape-Shifting Again, But Done In Creative

Here is some serious irony for you … A NYC reader who has a deep background in out of home advertising periodically sends me images and videos of that ill-fated Coca-Cola display in Times Square – the one that used incredibly-complex robotics to deliver visual effects that could have just been done in the creative. […]

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Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 10:21 AM

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New Cruise Ships To Feature Giant 57-Foot LED Walls Showing Live Video Of Surroundings

The Scandinavian cruise line Hurtigruten is building a pair of ships that will feature 57-foot tall LED in a seven-storey atrium area, running live video of the surroundings, as well as pre-planned content triggered by the ship’s location. […]

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Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 9:53 AM

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16:9: Samsung’s The Wall Back At ISE, And Ready For Its Close-Up

When I first saw Samsung’s micro LED display product – The Wall – a year ago at ISE 2018, viewers were kept at a distance of maybe 10 feet from the physical screen, with the screen set back in a room. I assumed that was to keep all the Pro AV nerds from touching the LEDs – which with most LED modules are easily damaged. […]

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Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 9:25 AM

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16:9: Giant LED Banner Starts Revolving In Famed Kuala Lumpur Mall

This is what’s touted to be the world’s largest double-sided LED display, a revolving ad banner in a six-storey shopping mall at the base of the famous Petronas twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. […]

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Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 8:49 AM

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50-Foot Fine-Pitch LED Strip Added To Downtown Calgary’s Pedway System

Calgary, Alberta’s forest of energy sector-centric office towers is interconnected above the streets by a series of enclosed and climate-controlled (usually) pedway bridges, with the mezzanine levels of many of the buildings filled with retail and services. […]

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Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:01 AM

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16:9: New Orleans Car Dealer Uses Digital Billboards To Troll NFL After Missed Call

Hat Tip to Datacall’s Tim Vance for flagging this … A New Orleans man who owns multiple car dealerships around that city has booked LED billboards around the Atlanta area to troll the National Football League ahead of the Super Bowl there, in the wake of an awful missed call that very, very likely kept the New Orleans Saints out of the big game. […]

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Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 8:20 AM

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16:9: Nike’s House Of Innovation In NYC Great On Experience, Terrible On Screens

When I was at the NRF show this week in New York, I bumped into numerous industry friends – some who encouraged me to get away from the exhibit venue and head over to the new-ish Nike “House of Innovation” flagship on 5th Avenue. It was mind-blowing, I was told. So I grabbed an Uber with a friend, Raffi Vartian from Diversified, and went over to see what all the fuss was about. […]

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Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 2:16 PM

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16:9: LG Now Actively Marketing Its Transparent #LED Film For Glass Surfaces

LG has started actively marketing the transparent LED film, for windows and architectural glass, it has been demonstrating at trade shows for the last couple of years. The film is only 1.5mm thick (about the thickness of a dime coin) and pushes more than 1,000 nits of brightness in each 668×480 mm panel. Each of those panels has 560 LED pixels set at 24mm pitch. […]

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Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 9:23 AM

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16:9: Nanolumens CEO Rick Cope Has Left Company He Founded

Nanolumens founder Rick Cope has left the company he founded and ran for several years, to pursue (as the saying goes) other interests. The colorful former US Marine built the Atlanta-area company up from the idea stage – marketing indoor LED displays that were skinny, light and flexible to a pro AV industry that had previously known mostly thick, heavy and rigid. […]

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Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 7:00 AM

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16:9: Samsung Debuts Jumbo And TV-Sized Versions Of The Wall Micro LED Display

Samsung now has jumbo and small versions of The Wall – the micro LED display it introduced year ago at CES. The Korean electronics giant’s First Look CES 2019 event today features a new 219″ display and a 75” version that’s in line with the form factor for large TVs in homes. […]

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Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 8:29 AM

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