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DSE Lookahead: Globalshop On Same Week, Wrong City, But Bar Show On Next Door

A friend pointed out that Globalshop this year is again on the same week as Digital Signage Expo, but unlike last year, the cab ride over to that show for DSE is a bit more involved. Last year, the big retail merchandising show was at the south end of the strip at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. This year, it’s in Chicago. […]

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Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 7:52 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: ISE Director Mike Blackman Previews The 2018 Show

Integrated Systems Europe is now just a matter of weeks away, with the doors to the massive pro AV trade show in Amsterdam set to open on February 6th. The show has broken attendance records in recent years, and it looks very much like the 2018 number will exceed last year’s count of 73,000-plus. […]

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Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:13 AM

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16:9: You Walk Through An OLED Slot Canyon To Get To LG’s CES Booth

Via Korea Times and AV Interactive The entrance to LG’s monster booth at CES in Las Vegas this week is a 28 metre-long winding walkway of flexible OLED displays, set up to mimic one of the slot canyons hikers might find in nearby Utah or Arizona. The LG OLED Canyon has 90 concave and 156 convex open frame 55-inch OLEDs, and the content features nature scenes enhanced by immersive audio. […]

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Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 10:09 AM

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16:9: Intel’s Newest NUC Can Drive Six Digital Signage Displays At Once

Photo source: Liliputing Intel is showing off a new, very powerful version of its NUC mini-PCs, which have been widely used by some digital signage network operators, software vendors and systems integrators. […]

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Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 1:44 PM

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18:9: Digital Signage Awards Entries Now Shortlisted, Winners to Be Announced Feb. 7 at ISE

The judges for the Digital Signage Awards have put in their assessments and short lists have been developed across the various categories. The winners will be announced and awards handed out on February 7 at Integrated Systems Europe, as part of the trade show’s Digital Signage Summit. […]

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Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 9:13 AM

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16:9: Samsung Now Marketing Micro LED Technology; Jumbo 146-Inch TV Showing At CES

Samsung confirmed rumors today and announced a massive, modular MicroLED TV called The Wall. The easiest way to think of it is a fine pitch LED wall for the consumer market. The announced configuration for CES this week is 146-inches diagonal, but it is positioned as something that can be made bigger, smaller or a different shape, by adding or removing modules. […]

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Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 8:56 AM

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Retail Services Provider SageNet Hires Director Of Digital Signage

Tulsa, OK-based managed services and cybersecurity solutions provider SageNet appears to be getting seriously interested in the digital signage business, having just hired industry vet IV Dickson as the company’s new Director of Digital Signage. […]

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Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 4:21 PM

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Twin Experiential LED Video Walls Light Up Lobby Of Chicago’s Aon Center

The Aon Center, one of Chicago’s tallest and most recognizable buildings, has followed the lead of some other major commercial office properties in turning a feature in the lobby to a giant LED digital wall. Part of a recent renovation of its lobby and atrium included a pair of 42-foot-wide by 10-foot-tall direct view LED walls running custom-designed motion graphics and video content. […]

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Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 4:10 PM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Dan Garner On How Xibo Makes Money From Free, Open Source Software

By far the busiest post on the Sixteen:Nine blog is one that lists the many options out there for free, kinda sorta free, or free to start with digital signage CMS software. One of the oldest – and among the few that are legitimately free – is Xibo, an open source digital signage solution that started as a student project in the UK many years ago. […]

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Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 12:16 AM

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16:9: Women Of Digital Signage Formed As Industry Networking Group

  One quick look around an industry event is all you need to conclude the digital signage industry is like almost all tech-based industries – lopsidedly male in overall headcounts, and particularly at executive levels. I don’t think the gender seesaw will get balanced in my working lifetime, but it is s  l  o  o  o  o  o  w  l  y changing. […]

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Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 12:46 PM

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16:9: North America’s Largest Transparent LED Wall Goes Live at Canada’s National Arts Centre

Last night, on a very frigid New Year’s Eve, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada officially switched on a three-storey signature LED display called the Kipnes Lantern. It is the largest transparent LED screen in North America and fills the windows of the newly rejuvenated building in the capital city. […]

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Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 9:57 AM

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16:9: Pro AV 2017 – A Year In Review

GUEST POST: ALAN BRAWN, BRAWN CONSULTING When most of us think about evolution, we think in terms of slow change over decades or even centuries. Alan Brawn When we see change in front of our very eyes, that’s something else. Some might even call it disruption. […]

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Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 7:11 PM

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The 5 Most Searched Digital Signage Blogs of 2017

As 2017 comes to a close, we like to review all of our educational content from the past year to determine what kinds of information that digital signage users are seeking out. By analyzing the most popular searches on our blogs, we can determine what material is most useful and relevant to our readers. […]

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Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 3:40 PM

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16:9: Shanghai Mall Marketed With Multi-Sensory Digital Campaign In City’s Subway System

This a multi-sensory pop-up media campaign in the Shanghai subway system, marketing a shopping mall called The MIXC. Put together by JCDecaux, the set-up is a house-like display that blends back-lit graphics with windows that look into flat panel displays, and scent marketing tech. […]

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Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 9:16 AM

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16:9: A Totally Unfiltered, Public Digital Messaging System – What Could Go Wrong???

Photo – realities:united There is much hand-wringing underway in Toronto after a new subway station opened with a $500,000 art installation that let anyone walk up to a kiosk and put up a brief eight-character message on a set of suspended lights. […]

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Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 9:14 AM

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