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Philips & Showcase Cinemas: A Blockbuster Duo Transforming the Movie-Going Experience

PPDS, the global provider of Philips Professional Displays and AV solutions, has installed 568 remotely managed 4K Philips digital signage and videowall units in all Showcase Cinemas across North America. Per the company, the installation has thus transformed the moviegoing experience and created lucrative new sales opportunities. […]

commercialintegrator.com
Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 2:07 PM

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Five Ways Digital Signage Can Help Revive Movie Theaters

The return of audiences to movie theaters after the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t played out ideally for the cinema industry. COVID-19 wiped out about 90% of revenue in the first 12 months of the pandemic, and industry experts predict that box-office numbers will hit $29 billion in 2023 but remain well below pre-pandemic levels. […]

commercialintegrator.com
Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 3:37 PM

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Historic Moviehouse Marquee Gets LED Upgrade

This is a nice little retrofit of a historic moviehouse marquee in a small town south of Buffalo, NY, replacing the old letterboard for ... […]

sixteen-nine.net
Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 7:38 AM

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Netflix Adds Crystal LED Video Wall For Special Screening Room At LA HQ

Netflix was one of the first companies to make direct view LED the key visual feature of a headquarters lobby, and now the streaming media giant is using microLED as its primary display in a special screening room. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 8:19 AM

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Elite Multimedia Goes to the Drive-in at the Pinewood Social Carpool Cinema

Nashville-based production provider works with Strategic Hospitality to create a safe outdoor movie experience meeting the local social distancing guidelines   Nashville, TN (7/28/2020) – Located in Nashville, Tennessee, Pinewood Social is a gathering and meeting space that can accommodate the needs of its guest’s morning, noon or night. […]

digitalsignageconnection.com
Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 12:44 PM

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Digital Screens Onscreen: How Digital Displays and Projectors Can Help Save Entertainment (DSConnection)

The Entertainment & Recreation industries, like most modern arenas of business, have been uniquely impacted by the COVID-19 shutdowns and confusion. Many film and serialized television projects have been postponed or canceled due to the pandemic, and those that have soldiered through have had to reduce locations shoots to accommodate tightening budgets and travel restrictions. […]

digitalsignageconnection.com
Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 9:14 AM

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16:9: LG Starts Touting Direct View LED As Cinema Screens

LG has joined Korean rival Samsung in actively marketing a direct view LED solution for cinema operators, as an alternative to projection systems. The big pitch behind the new 3.3mm pitch LED product is image quality – like deep blacks and color uniformity – and the ability for cinema operators to win back space and add new rows of seating because the projection room is eliminated. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 8:20 AM

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16:9: Premium Moviehouse In Oslo Kitted With 100 Displays

A premium cinema in Oslo, Norway has built a lot of the movie-going experience around digital displays, with about 100 Philips screens around the entrance lobby, hallways and concessions. The Odeon Kino AS worked with Philips and the IT firm Atea to build out a digital experience. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 9:52 AM

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16:9: Christie Goes Into The Back-Story Of Its LED MicroTiles

When I first saw Christie’s second-generation MicroTiles back this past winter at ISE in Amsterdam, my first reaction was probably like many, as in: “Those are LEDs, not MicroTiles!” They looked good and had a different structural set-up, but I wasn’t getting it. MicroTiles, as I knew them, were small display cubes unrelated to LED. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 10:54 AM

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16:9: North America’s Cinema Giants Team Up On Digital Signage Management

Toronto-based Cineplex Digital Media, whose parent company is the dominant cinema chain in Canada, has done a deal to manage the digital signage network for AMC Theatres, which is the biggest cinema operator in the US and, I think, the world. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 12:34 AM

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16:9: Barco Takes 5% Position In Chinese LED Giant Unilumin Via Partnership Deal

Belgium’s Barco has taken a 5% position in Chinese direct view LED giant Unilumin, as part of a new “strategic collaboration. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 9:08 AM

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Enhance your cinema marketing strategy with digital signage

Despite shaky attendance numbers and challenges from at-home and online media, revenues for the cinema space are trending upwards. […]

Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 3:49 PM

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London Flagship Cinema Adds Blended Mirror-Screen Heritage Wall

This is a blended mirror wall – video wall in the heart of the recently renovated Odeon cinema, just off London’s busy Leicester Square. The UK solutions provider Beaver Group provided all the hardware, software, installation, content creation and support for the flagship cinema. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 8:37 AM

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LED Screens Starting To See Adoption By Cinema

It would not have been unreasonable to look at Samsung’s push into digital cinema – marketing fine pitch, direct view LEDs as an alternative to screens and projectors – as an interesting concept, but not one that would see much adoption because of cost. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 11:36 AM

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Cinemex Using Creative Video Walls To Elevate Moviehouse Experiences

Here’s a of glimpses at the ambitious and interesting digital signage implementations happening with the Cinemex moviehouse chain in Mexico. Across the 300 site chain, Mexican integrator Multimedia Corp. has put in 8,000 screens driven by some 1,300 players. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 8:15 AM

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