This is great – a stunning use of fine pitch LED in the ceiling of a seven-level shopping and lifestyle center on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. The centerpiece of a makeover at 900 North Michigan Shops is a massive, 190-foot-long digital art installation spanning the ceiling of the nearly 30-year-old complex. […]
A pair of well-established digital signage software firms across the Atlantic have announced integrations with Samsung’s Tizen-driven Smart Signage platform. The Dutch firm NDS has announced its flagship software PADS4 is the first software in the world that has been tested and approved by Samsung engineers to optimally run on Samsung’s System on Chip (SoC) solution. […]
After a positive stretch, the first in years for the blended entities, Creative Realities is back well into the red ink zone, based on new SEC filings. We have incurred net losses and negative cash flows from operating activities for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015. […]
I did not know there was such a thing as a commercial-grade soundbar, but now I do – with word that Peerless-AV has upgraded its Xtreme Outdoor Soundbar with enough system power to make digital signage audio effective in public environments like amusement park line-ups. […]
There is no end of options for floor-standing digital signage displays being put together and shipped out of Guangdong, and they all pretty much look the same. Except this one. It’s an upside-down bottle shape, which is kinda clever. […]
Here’s a really good explainer video about the giant selfie head that switched on as an interactive art piece a few weeks ago at the newly-renovated Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio. […]
Back at World HQ after a week in the heartlands of narrow pitch LED. As noted, the report will be out in January ahead of ISE. I’ll get back on regular news, though I don’t the impression all that much happened last week. […]
Sacramento-based Citilabs has launched what it calls a first-of-its-kind population movement analytics solution that provides an hour-by-hour picture of how Americans move around their country. The company’s Streetlytics platform uses billions of data points to measure and report origin-destination movements, directional road volumes, and traveler demographics. […]
Acer is taking on 51% ownership in another Taiwan tech company, Aopen, in what is described as a core strategy to expand its digital signage business. Acer will participate in a private placement of 36.5 million new common shares of AOpen at a price of $0.38 per share USD. This is a bit of a back to the future thing since Aopen was originally a subsidiary of Acer, going back to the ’90s. […]
Chicago-based digital OOH media network operators Outcome Health is being sued for fraud by some of its high profile backers, including Google and Goldman Sachs, and the US Justice Department is now getting involved. […]
A ferry will take me this morning from Shenzhen, China to Hong Kong, which I am assuming is a far nicer way to get between the two cities than the subway rides I took to get here. Yeah, you can take the subway to China. It’s cheap and kinda sorta fast, but hard work if you have luggage. […]
There’s no question that consumers like the word free, and it’s a term that has certainly worked for LA-based MediaSignage, which sees about 100 new accounts opened up everyday for its mostly free digital signage platform. There are lots of software offers in this business that are free for the first account, but you pay after the second and third, and so on. […]
Via Display Daily OLED displays have tended to generate a couple of uniform reactions from onlookers:1) they look amazing and 2) they’re amazingly expensive. The latter is changing, according to research firm IHS Markit, which says the manufacturing cost gap between OLED displays and LCD displays is closing. […]
The base levels of the tallest building in Taiwan – Taipei 101 – are a lot of retail and restaurants, and a lot of escalators. One of them had this multimedia set-up I can’t recalls seeing anywhere else – a fine-pitch LED display that runs up the span between the escalators. […]
My butt gets sore just thinking about the long plane ride ahead this weekend – eventually taking me to Shenzhen, where most of the world’s consumer and business electronics are made. I’m going there for a few days to take a deep look at direct view LEDs – how they’re made, who makes them and how buyers are supposed to separate the great from the not-so. […]
