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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: A Huge 260-Screen OLED Waterfall Scene Greets LG’s CES 2019 Stand Visitors

Last year, CES visitors to LG’s stand walked along an OLED screen canyon. This year, there’s an OLED waterfall … kinda sorta. LG’s sprawling CES booth, by the main entrance to the Las Vegas Convention Center, has 260 OLEDs in a dramatic, wavy waterfalls-like set-up. […]

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Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 9:19 AM

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16:9: External Media Players are Better Than Smart Displays, Right? Not So Fast

Guest Post: Curtis Campbell, Hughes Virtually everywhere we look, we see divisions. Be it politics, how to raise children, dogs versus cats, there never seems to be a winner-take-all argument. And digital signage technology is no different. For a few years now, signage buyers have been presented with an alternative to external digital signage players – namely SoC (System On Chip) and digital signage running on SmartTV displays. […]

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Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 5:02 PM

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16:9: New Bangkok Skycraper’s Main Elevator Has OLED-Lined Walls And Ceiling

As someone who got started in digital signage 20 years ago by putting screens in skyscraper elevators – single 12-inch screens that cost $2,500 each – it’s a little freaky to read about an elevator that has its walls and ceilings all lined with 55-inch OLEDs. This is a 360 video – you have to watch on your smartphone to get the 360 effect. Online, it looks very weird. […]

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Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 9:04 AM

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LG Holding Nov. 1 Tech Tour Digital Signage Event In NYC

It looks LG has a big cross-section of companies co-exhibiting with it at its Tech Tour event in New York on Nov. 1.  LG’s commercial display partners at the event in Hell’s Kitchen include BrightSign, Chief, Peerless Av and numerous CMS companies like Gauddi (from the Netherlands), Hughes, Omnivex, Ping HD, Skykit, Tripleplay and 22 Miles. […]

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Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 7:11 AM

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Interactive Wall, Touted As World’s Largest, Switches On At Riyadh Rail Hub

This is what’s being billed as the largest interactive video wall on the planet – set in a rail hub in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The project was put together for the Saudi Arabia Railway (SAR) by the huge Spanish integrator Trison. The job required a curved interactive screen that would be 37 meters wide and 1.2 meters high. […]

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Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 9:39 AM

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16:9: RMG Latest Digital Signage CMS Software Shop To Add LG webOS Support Via Korbyt

RMG Networks is the last CMS software and solutions company to develop support for LG’s webOS smart display platform. The company’s Korbyt platform is now compatible with the display giant’s Linux-derived system on chip platform. Korbyt is RMG’s relatively new cloud-based CMS. Dallas-based RMG suggests combining webOS Signage and Korbyt offers many benefits. […]

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Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 7:21 AM

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16:9: UK Sushi Chain Changes Up Menu Board Approach With Super-Stretched Displays

Here’s a nice implementation of digital menuboards in a fast food environment – changing things up with super-stretched displays and a bold, reasonably minimal content presentation – instead of many items wedged into limited visual space. The project involves the London, UK-based sushi and bento restaurant chain, Wasabi, at seven stores around that city. […]

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Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 6:59 AM

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16:9: LG Expands Its Range Of OLED Options

Just going back through my notes and pix from last week at InfoComm, and remembered how the focal point of LG’s big, impressive booth was OLED displays. The tech has been around for a while now, and LG continues to be the only major display company to drive organic displays as a commercial option. […]

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Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 11:23 AM

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16:9: LG To Show Its Full Color Transparent LED Film This Week At Infocomm

North American pros will get a first look this week at Infocomm at the transparent color LED film that LG first showed a few months ago at ISE in Amsterdam. The film is touted as a way to turn any window or glass surface into a customizable digital canvas. If you were at Infocomm a year ago in Orlando, and wandered into LG Land, you would have seen gray-scale transparent LED films. […]

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Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 2:41 PM

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LG’s webOS Now Open-Sourced And Raspberry Pi-Ready

LG is expanding the digital signage possibilities for its webOS platform beyond smart displays to devices like the wildly-popular Raspberry Pi 3, via a new webOS Open Source Edition. […]

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Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 8:09 AM

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16:9: Navori Adds Support For Samsung Tizen SOC Displays; MVIV Now Runs On LG Web OS

Many software companies are broadening their use of System On Chip displays, both with Android and on the proprietary versions of Linux run by the big Korean displaycos. […]

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Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:05 AM

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16:9: Take A Video Stroll Through LG’s Amazing OLED Canyon At CES

Here’s a video and some good pix showing the LG OLED canyon that leads into the company’s mega-booth at CES this week. The OLED Canyon has 90 concave and 156 convex open frame screens. Visitors walk through a 28m long twisting canyon trail and experience images produced by a total of two billion self-emissive OLED pixels. […]

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Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 7:35 AM

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16:9: You Walk Through An OLED Slot Canyon To Get To LG’s CES Booth

Via Korea Times and AV Interactive The entrance to LG’s monster booth at CES in Las Vegas this week is a 28 metre-long winding walkway of flexible OLED displays, set up to mimic one of the slot canyons hikers might find in nearby Utah or Arizona. The LG OLED Canyon has 90 concave and 156 convex open frame 55-inch OLEDs, and the content features nature scenes enhanced by immersive audio. […]

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Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 10:09 AM

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16:9: LG To Show 8K OLED At CES; Samsung Rumored To Show Micro LED TV

Numerous tech blogs are reporting that LG will be showing an 8K OLED display this year at CES. The 88-inch display has a resolution of 7680×4320, which is 33 million+ pixels. “The successful development of the world’s first 8K OLED display is a milestone for the 8K era and underscores the exciting potential of OLED,” says In-Byung Kang, Executive VP and CTO at LG Display. […]

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Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 1:45 PM

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