Electronic display signs have become more common throughout the country, used in various situations by several companies as a means to not only attract more attention to whatever message may be on display by the design, but as a cost effective and time efficient means of improving facilities and equipment over the out-of-date relics that served similar purpose in the past. When looking at some instances of the new electronic signs in our culture, many wouldn’t even consider what it had replaced or how things may have improved with the use of the newer technology pieces. An LED display sign has been the most common form used in this era of electronic display signs. Here is a look at some of the more under-appreciated and perhaps most useful situations that an electronic sign has been introduced.

1. Sports Scoreboards
Scoreboards have long moved from the days of using cards and number sheets to show score and statistics, and even past the era of light bulb powered displays. New electronic scoreboards show brightly in day and night, scores, statistics and even advertisement through video displays. Not only has the means in communication improved, but also the total capabilities of the devices expanded beyond the original design, and any improvement upon an already solid idea is indeed a great idea.

2. Gas Station
Gas stations attract a rather interesting customer clientele. There isn’t much to sell to them, but due to the necessity of the products they carry, stations end up being one of the more profitable areas where electronic display signs have been most frequently popping up. Newer stations hoist their signs high into the air, brightly displaying gas prices to persuade a driver from venturing to their pump rather than the one across the street. An electronic sign also benefits from being able to be updated by remote, instead of having to walk up to the sign and manually change the numbers as gas prices change.

3. TV Programming
If one’s watched the Daily Show or any of the more mainstream news outlets, you can easily see how electronic display signs have been implemented into sets, mainly for aesthetic value, but it serves its purpose well to give some character and background to these otherwise bland shows.

4. Movie Theater Marquee
A movie theater may be the last place one expects to hear of a LED display sign, but they have become essentially the only medium by which movie theaters will list movie showtimes at the actual theater, with the benefit of being able to remove showtimes that have sold out as well as removing any issue laminated number cards create during daylight hours.

5. Airport
Airports have used televisions for display of times throughout the terminals for a long time, but as with many older TV’s, the bulbs wear out, the screens discolor and sometimes they are difficult to discern what is actually on the screen. Electronic sign implementation has given airports a longer lasting and more energy efficient means at providing travel information for those in need.

6. Traffic Signs
On the interstate, electronic display signs have shown to be a useful addition for giving drivers an idea of the traffic situation ahead as well as broadcasting news of car theft and crashes.

7. Billboards
New LED display sign billboards have used high definition video to broadcast multiple messages with greater clarity and aesthetics than the previous form of rotating panels. Sometimes simple improvements such as this make a huge difference.

8. Stock tickers
Wall Street may be hurting right now, but those who made their fortunes with cutthroat brokers during the years of prosperity would never have made it without the quick updates brought on by the electronic display signs at various stock indexes world wide.

9. Business Displays
A very cost effective form of advertising for a business is having an electronic sign attached to the company logo outside, displaying information on sales, rooms available at a motel, even time and temperature.

10. Window signs
Like business displays, only smaller in investment and located within the property, these signs provide the same benefits as a business display sign looming large out front, only without the big business expense in construction.