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16:9: Crap Research: You Probably Didn’t Know NEC, Advantech Are Market Leaders In Digital Signage Software (Spoiler: They’re Not)

I have seen tweets, Linkedin posts and even news coverage from people who need to invest a little more time thinking (than they do copying and pasting) about a report out in the last few days about top-rated digital signage software platforms. Some rated companies are even congratulating themselves on being selected, etc etc. […]

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Sun, May 27, 2018 at 6:41 PM

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16:9: New Sphere Touted For Vegas Would Have 170,000 Sq. Ft. High-Rez LED Display

Las Vegas is up there with Dubai and China for over-the-top buildings and attractions, but a new entertainment complex touted to be open in 2-3 years may top them all. The MSG Sphere is giant see-through ball that will house an 18,000 seat concert and events venue. The Sphere would be 360-feet-tall and 500-feet-wide, and have what I think might be the largest high-rez LED screen on the planet. […]

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Fri, May 25, 2018 at 3:44 PM

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16:9: New Boston QSR Mashes Up Robot Cooks, Touchscreens And Digital Order Signs

A new quick restaurant has opened up in Boston that mashes up touchscreen order tablets and digital order status displays with a largely robotic food prep line. Cooked up by a set of MIT grads, Spyce opened at the start of the month in one location – using robotic dispensers and wok-like heating pans on robotic rotary systems. Watch the video – it explains it better than I can. […]

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Fri, May 25, 2018 at 2:24 PM

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Put The World Cup On Your Digital Signage Screens With These Feeds

The world’s biggest sporting event gets started in a matter of a couple of weeks, and the World Cup squads for many of the footballing countries who qualified are already gathering for training, and generating news. […]

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Thu, May 24, 2018 at 4:16 PM

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16:9 Podcasts: Sheldon Silverman On The Opportunity GDPR Presents For Digital OOH Operators

If you deal with companies over in Europe, you’ve probably been carpet-bombed lately by email requests to update your subscription settings for things like product announcements. That all owes to something called GPDR, the General Data Protection Regulation that goes into effect in the European Union at the end of this week. […]

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Wed, May 23, 2018 at 12:11 AM

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16:9: Prysm Back In Digital Signage Game With Huge 6K Display

The display company Prysm was in the digital signage display market 8-10 years ago with a laser phosphor display cube that had a lot of similarities to Christie’s MicroTiles. But in the last few years, the company has been more focused on displays used for corporate environments, particularly for collaboration. […]

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Tue, May 22, 2018 at 7:58 AM

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16:9: FCC Cracks Down On Non-Compliant LED Display Vendors

When LED companies like Watchfire and Daktronics started making noises in the past year about the perils of buying offshore product that was not FCC licensed, it was reasonable to think a little bit of that was about sowing some FUD – Fear Uncertainty & Doubt. Nothing like the risk of fines or being shut down to chill someone who may be thinking of buying far less costly Chinese product. […]

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Sun, May 20, 2018 at 3:55 PM

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Big LCD Video Wall Greets Visitors To New LA Stadium District

This is what I assume is a feature video wall in the sales and information center for the Los Angeles Stadium and Entertainment District, a massive 300-acre urban redevelopment site that has the focal point of a 70,000-seat stadium for the Los Angeles Chargers and Los Angeles Rams – pro football teams, if you don’t know the NFL. […]

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Fri, May 18, 2018 at 8:15 AM

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16:9: Research: Nearly 11 Million Meeting Rooms Out There – Digital Door Signs, Anyone?

UK-based Futuresource Consulting has pushed out new research focused on the corporate market and looking at the rise of technology such as digital meeting room signs. […]

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Wed, May 16, 2018 at 8:52 AM

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16:9 Podcasts: UPshow’s Matt Gibbs On Successfully Bringing Social TV To Life In Restaurants

A whole bunch of startups have through the years, tried to crack the restaurant and bar business with a digital out of home advertising model that saw them put in screens and media players, hoping to claw back the costs, and more, through advertising. And a whole bunch of them – most of them, in fact, have failed. Advertising is hard. […]

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Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:11 AM

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Projects: An LED Veil And LED Floor Energize Kuwait City Mall Expansion

This is a series of gorgeous curved displays in The Avenues mall, a mega mall in Kuwait City. The project, called Electra, was put together by the solutions provider StandardVision in a new part of the shopping center. There is a 360 degree, 600 square meter immersive LED video veil and an interactive LED floor. […]

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Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:43 PM

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16:9: Chatbot Platform Finds Its Way Into Retail Digital Signage

Chatbots are growing increasingly common online, but a pair of companies have teamed up to take that experience to digital displays at retail shelves. A Lyon, France start-up called Botescope has worked with the Raspberry Pi-centric CMS firm Screenly to develop a solution that pairs and controls screens with mobile devices through conversational “smart agents. […]

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Tue, May 15, 2018 at 9:04 AM

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Sony Shipping Six New Signage-Ready 4K Displays Running Android TV

Sony continues to seemingly nibble around the edges of the digital signage business – kinda sorta in it, but not in any big or consistent way. The company has had system on chip smart displays since at least 2013, but has not really gone after a smart signage play in the way rivals like Samsung, LG, Phillips and others have. […]

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Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:35 AM

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16:9: 2018 InfoComm Lookahead: 336 Exhibitors Say They’re In Digital Signage, But …

I am starting to wrap my head around InfoComm, which is coming up in early June in Las Vegas. It’s not a show I attend to see new stuff. I go to spend the poking around time that I never get during Digital Signage Expo. […]

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Sun, May 13, 2018 at 4:58 PM

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How To Use Digital Signs To Boost Your Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies

Guest Post: Jill Perardi, Visix With millennials now the dominate group in the workforce, organizations are looking at what makes them tick – what they expect, what gets them engaged, and what encourages them to stick around at a job for longer than a year. One of the things this group says is very important to them is to work for companies that show corporate social responsibility (CSR). […]

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Fri, May 11, 2018 at 9:45 AM

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