NanoLumens Weekly Insights on Digital Signage and the AV Industry
Read weekly updates on all things related to NanoLumens, video walls, digital signage trends, and the AV Industry.
See You at ISE!
With Integrated Systems Europe fewer than a dozen days away, NanoLumens would like to voice our excitement for this year’s show. We’ll be sending several of our smartest minds to Amsterdam this year and we’d love to schedule some time to meet!
Making Meaning with Media Architecture
We’ve written in this space before about the degrees of freedom in design NanoLumens grants each of our clients but its worth briefly touching on the media architecture successes of a few installations because each represents a remarkable achievement in thinking outside the box.
Three Video Wall and LED Display Trends to Monitor in 2020
The new year is here and the digital signage landscape looks a lot different than it did this time last year. We expect it will evolve even further over the course of 2020 and we’ve highlighted a few areas we think might experience some noteworthy changes.
Highlighting Our Favorite Installs of 2019
As 2019 comes to a close, we thought we’d take the opportunity to look back at a handful of our favorite NanoLumens installations from the past year.
LED in CLT: Giving Charlotte, North Carolina a Modern Art Makeover
One of the sharpest cities in the American Southeast has received a dramatic digital makeover in recent years and the new look is delivering welcome buzz to a community striving to assert itself as a hub of commerce and innovation. Welcome to Charlotte, North Carolina.
Have a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving
The leaves have turned here outside the NanoLumens headquarters in [...]
Darker Darks are the Key to LED Contrast Ratios
In attempting to digitally recreate real life on a screen, one of the most important metrics to consider is contrast ratio, which the National American Standards Institute lays out as “the absolute difference in luminance between the peak white and black levels” of a display.
We Wish Everyone a Happy and Safe Veterans Day
November 11th is celebrated every year in the United States [...]
Defining Distance: Pixel Pitch vs. Fill Ratio
There are two ways to measure the space between pixels and each tell their own story. The first is pixel pitch, a common specification listed early in the description of any digital display product. The second is fill ratio, the less common of the two metrics and one that only you’ll find listed much lower on any given spec sheet.
OLED (and Other Things): A Series of Questions Asked and Answered Concerning LED and OLED
LED, LCD, ULED, OLED, HDR, DLP, AV. This alphabet soup can get confusing if you aren’t immersed in the terminology on a day to day basis and one of the most common mix ups occurs with the phrases LED and OLED. Let’s clear up some of this confusion by asking and answering some questions about these evolving display types.
Dive into the Designers Guide to Degrees of Freedom
Taking place next Thursday at 1 PM, what this webinar ultimately promises is that participants will depart with the knowledge they need to design the direct view LED vision that’s always lived in their head.
Count the Rainbow: How Does Bit Depth Work?
We would like to once again explore another slightly technical subject that readers would do well to understand: bit depth. While most people involved in the digital display industry have at least a cursory understanding of the effects of bit depth, many may not fully grasp how it works.