The Pro AV trade organization AVIXA has pushed out the latest version of its weekly industry impact survey, launched a month ago to track the tangible and less tangible impacts of the pandemic on integrators, service providers, consultants, vendors and techs. […]
If you go to InfoComm each year, looking at displays and related technology for digital signage work, you have likely wandered off course and into parts of the trade show hall that seemed a little foreign. Like the audio people, and particularly the companies that do things like rigging, lighting and effects for live shows. […]
Munich-based digital signage consultancy invidis shared some presentation material it developed recently that looks at the business impacts of the pandemic, breaking it down to six scenarios. The charts look at different scenarios, recommended actions and verticals they apply to. […]
It will surprise no one that the pro AV industry is taking a big hit because of the near shutdown of business in the midst of the panic, and the trade association AVIXA has been taking the pulse of the ecosystem to understand what’s happening and prevailing sentiments. […]
Spartanburg, SC’s Hypersign has read its market and put together a business bundle it calls DSaas, which is short for Digital Signage as a service. The bundled program, which seems to be coming up more and more in digital signage (see Planar from Wednesday for another variation on this), allows end-users to put everything they need into a budget-friendly OpEx monthly payment. […]
These are some of the oddest, craziest, scariest moments many of us have ever experienced. If you’re sick, you’ll hopefully recover quickly. But the global economy is now very much under the weather, so to speak, and it is not at all clear when it will get better. […]
Here’s another story about companies pitching in … BrightSign CEO has written a blog post (somewhere, it was passed along) about adding AV to the temporary hospital facilities established in hard hit NYC. He writes: Despite how bleak the outlook may appear today, I’m inspired by how the AV industry is responding to this crisis. […]
I asked yesterday for positive stories to relate about companies in our industry pitching in to help deal with this pandemic in a variety of ways. Here’s a good one involving the big AV distribution company Almo. […]
STRATACACHE has bought an old computer chip facility south of Portland, OR with plans to revive it as a fab for its increasingly verticalized digital signage solutions business. CEO Chris Riegel bought the old Hynix plant last week for $6.3 million, in an auction. Hynix spent $1.5 billion to build and equip the 1.2-million-square-foot factory, which opened in 1998, reports Oregon Live. […]
Portland, OR-based digital display company Planar has started marketing a bundled program that puts pretty much everything associated with a visual systems project into one fixed monthly cost. […]
Samsung Display is ending direct production of LCD panels in South Korea and China by the end of this year, according to a report by the global news agency Reuters. […]
The feedback is in from a survey done in the last few days, asking people in North America and globally about their business sentiments in the midst of a pandemic. The business survey was organized by Munich-based invidis and relayed on this side of the Atlantic by the giant team at 16:9. […]
Here’s the word from Todd Bouman, President and CEO, of NEC Display, in the wake of overnight news that his company and Sharp are becoming one this summer, with Sharp as majority owner. Todd Bouman/NEC We are pleased to share the news with you that NEC Corporation and Sharp Corporation have agreed to create a joint venture by combining NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. […]
A kinda sorta digital signage tech startup focused on smart retailing has opened an autonomous micro c-store in Orange County, California that uses a combination of LED ribbon “smart” shelves, payments systems and AI-based computer vision. […]
NEC and Sharp have agreed to create a joint venture that combines its subsidiary NEC Display Solutions with Sharp. The press release on this just-announced JV is not all that enlightening, saying: “The Sharp-NEC joint venture will allow both companies to build upon their strengths and address the visualization needs of their global customers. […]
