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16:9: Samsung Now Marketing Micro LED Technology; Jumbo 146-Inch TV Showing At CES

Samsung confirmed rumors today and announced a massive, modular MicroLED TV called The Wall. The easiest way to think of it is a fine pitch LED wall for the consumer market. The announced configuration for CES this week is 146-inches diagonal, but it is positioned as something that can be made bigger, smaller or a different shape, by adding or removing modules. […]

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Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 8:56 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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NDS, Tripleplay Add Support For Samsung’s Tizen Smart Display Platform

A pair of well-established digital signage software firms across the Atlantic have announced integrations with Samsung’s Tizen-driven Smart Signage platform. The Dutch firm NDS has announced its flagship software PADS4 is the first software in the world that has been tested and approved by Samsung engineers to optimally run on Samsung’s System on Chip (SoC) solution. […]

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Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 9:20 AM

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16:9: Samsung’s Display Roadmap Adds More LED, More UHD, Ends Small And Square Screens

Marco Nalli of Samsung invited a bunch of people in architectural/design/consulting up to the company’s Canadian head office in suburban Toronto on Wednesday for a bit of a lunch and learn, to talk about current digital signage product and the North America product roadmap. […]

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Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 5:18 PM

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Texas Longhorns Kit Out New Football Locker Room With Screens Over Stalls

Other people can engage in the argument over whether Division 1 college athletes in the United States should be paid, and based on social media posts, it’s already evident the new University of Texas Longhorns football locker room has people griping about money being spent on bells and whistles, instead of paying players or putting funds into academic programs. […]

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Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 5:29 PM

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16:9: Fine Pitch LED Now Good Enough To Use As Movie Theatre Screens

Anyone who has been to a signage trade show in the last two or three years has likely looked at fine pixel pitch LED screens and concluded they were starting to look pretty damn good, but I doubt few though they were the sorts of things that could replace big movie theater screens and projectors. […]

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Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 8:19 AM

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Samsung Appoints BetaDMS As Authorised Large Format Display UK Distributor

Samsung has appointed Beta Digital Media Solutions (BetaDMS) – part of Beta Distribution, an independently owned IT distributor in the UK – as its distributor partner for its large format displays (LFDs) range with additional services that include in-house content creation, delivery and management. […]

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Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 6:57 AM

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Projects: UK Firm Puts 1.5mm LED Wall In Office Reception Area

High-end retailers evidently aren’t the only end-users opting in on pricey hi-rez direct view LED walls, instead of narrow-bezel LCD walls, in their signature locations. Here’s a commercial property company in the UK putting in a 1.5 mm wall in the reception area of its head office, near Victoria Station in London. […]

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Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 8:59 AM

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16:9: Day I Impressions – ISE 2017

ISE is now in full roar in a wet and now chilly Amsterdam. I’ve only been in 2 or 3 of the 14 or so halls at this crazy maze of a convention space, but have already seen and heard some interesting things. LG, like last year, is kinda killing it with their OLED eye candy – with the booth so full this morning I gave up o trying to wade in. […]

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Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 6:52 PM

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Rent The Runway Opens Digitally-Savvy NYC Flagship

The upstart fashion retailer Rent The Runway – which rents designer clothes to women somewhat the way men have rented formal wear for many years – has opened a digitally-savvy flagship store in lower Manhattan. The store on W. […]

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Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:16 PM

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Samsung Buys Harman In $8B Deal

Samsung just announced it has acquired Harman International Industries for $8 billion, picking up a company that has multiple brands under its wing, including JBL, AKG and Harmon Kardon. While that may sound like the electronics Godzilla is going big on audio, there’s a lot more to Harman. […]

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Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 10:44 AM

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Samsung Launches Online Information Portal For Pro Displays

If you do product research, planning or consulting in digital signage, you will know it can be a bit of a struggle to poke around the Web to find all the information needed for things like displays. There are B2C sites and B2B sites, and sometimes neither have what you need. […]

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Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:28 AM

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Samsung Starts Shipping New P Series Of Tizen-powered Smart Displays

Samsung has launched a new P-Series line of smart signage displays that are the first shipping with the Tizen operating system – the OS the company is shifting most or all of its information devices over to. The series has seven models, including 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays with 700 nits, 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays with 500 nits and a 32-inch display with 400 nits. […]

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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 8:52 AM

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Samsung’s New Smart Signs To Start Shipping With Tizen OS; Signagelive Says Good To Go

Samsung is moving its new version of its Smart Signage platform for commercial displays over to its own operating system Tizen, with Tizen OS-powered displays commercially available to partners, resellers and end-users by the middle of this month. That means if you want to use the new version 4.0 release of SSP displays with a CMS, that CMS needs to support Tizen OS. […]

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Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:02 AM

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Projects: 95-Inch Displays Part Of Experience At Samsung Showcase Store

Photography by Brandon Barre This is the new Samsung store at Toronto’s Sherway Gardens shopping centre, which has displays sprinkled through the store, including a big 95-inch panel embedded in an entry side wall, and another at the back. The design was done by Vancouver-based design group Cutler, and there are more pix here on Retail Design Blog. […]

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Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 8:57 AM

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