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with all the
"Niagara Falls" bombardment of signs, signs and more
signs, the advertising messages that will get noticed have to
be better, brighter and bolder than anything else around it.
The big challenge: how do you present advertising media that
people will pay attention to?
It's not only about building a new sign system as a better
mousetrap, but making sure the advertising community
understands it as an effective differentiator to generating
product awareness and sales uplift, the two constants of what
effective signage is all about. Although LFI's DLS sign
products can be deployed in just about any advertising
environment, the company is aggressively developing its market
niche in the Bar/Beverage and Gaming/Casino communities.
"Our DLS system is envisioned to be designed for specific
sign applications where a media planner or a corporation with
a highly visible brand sees laser projections as a unique
differentiation in grabbing their customer’s attention.
Because a laser beam's unique presence is so different than
print, video or other forms of electronic displays, we found
in exit surveys where our signs had been installed that
customers within those establishments had been noted with a 77
% awareness factor where passersby specifically remembered our
DLS system. Even better, we were able to note a product sales
lift which could be traced back to our DLS system and their
influence on customer purchasing of those advertised products.
At the end of the day, it's another sign tool for advertisers
to reach their audiences. As a sign system, it's unlimited in
what its potential is as a medium of indoor and outdoor
advertising signage."
Screen technology ITrans display
The other forthcoming display technology is being introduced
by Screen Technology, (Cambridge, UK) who has created a high
resolution and scalable LCD display system comparable to video
walls. This new display process offers a series of stackable
modular sign cabinets that allows its final screen face to
appear as a single "seamless" large format display.
Currently very large scale seamless screens are represented
through front or rear video projection that works best under
controlled (indoor) ambient light conditions. An alternative
to video projections is LED video screens which are very
bright and also present a high definition image. However, when
viewed closed up, LED screen images become distorted with a
very pixilated look. Another determent of LED screens is over
time some LEDs dim quicker than others causing uneven screen
brightness which differentiates the various LED tiles making
up the full sign face. The separations between the LED screen
tiles are known as mullions, which in an ideal screen set-up
would be invisible. These LED artifacts are the challenges
that Screen Technology has designed against.
Screen Technology's display system known as ITrans fills in
the viewing/advertising gaps that exist between the close-up
viewing of LCD/plasma and the far distance viewing of LED
video screens. Often, electronic displays are placed in malls,
transit terminals, and hotel environments where pedestrians
can see the screens at varying distances as they pass by them.
The strategy is to create a high resolution electronic display
that works both close up in a viewing mode (at two meters),
and in a far away mode (from at least at 52 meters).
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