I was in the Washington, DC area last week for what turned out to be the rebranding of Infocomm as AVIXA – a loose acronym for the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association. The trade association had invited me, and a pile of other trade journalists, for a press conference and follow-ups about … something. […]
Here’s video from that monster wraparound 8mm LED board that sparked up in Times Square this summer. Located at 701 7th Avenue (aka 20 Times Square), the wrap-around main screen is 91’4″ high and 186’4″ wide. Manufacturer/integrator SNA Displays says that makes it the largest 8mm outside LED board on the planet. […]
The guys at Screenscape in beautiful little Charlottetown, PEI got some good marketing news this week – being named among the fastest-growing companies in Canada by Canadian Business magazine. […]
The European wing of NEC – NEC Display Solutions Europe – has done a partnership that sees certain NEC pro-grade digital signage displays ship with embedded Raspberry Pi modules, running Ubuntu Core Linux and pre-loaded with the Screenly’s CMS player software. […]
interior of an empty modern courtroom Legal actions appear to be having at least some of the desired effect with NanoLumens efforts to counteract competitors it says are infringing the Atlanta-based LED display-makers patents. […]
Airport rental car centers tend to be big, bland concrete blocks that are anything but visual treats, but the new one at San Diego International Airport is a decided departure – with the exterior animated by some 2,100 E Ink Prism tiles. The public artwork, just launched, turns the 1,500-foot long front of the parking garage into a landmark mural. […]
Montreal-based CMS software shop BroadSign has announced its cloud-based platform has been run through and certified for a tough set of security and privacy standards – noting it is the first in the digital signage DOOH industry to do so. The company, in a press release, says it has successfully completed the Service Organization Control (SOC) II and ISAE3402 audits. […]
The French audience analytics software firm Quividi has added one of Shuttle’s small form factor PCs to the list of digital signage players compatible with its platform. Shuttle’s DH110 media player has been certified to run Quividi’s VidiReports software in a single screen/single camera mode, as well as in a dual screen/dual camera mode. […]
Montreal-based Ayuda Media Systems has re-branded and somewhat spun off its programmatic advertising module as it own company, and under a new brand – Hivestack. […]
A lot of companies run by creatives and software developers have found their way into the digital signage business on the backs of projects they delivered, but I wouldn’t really see that happening with a company that’s all about online payments. […]
Pretty much every convenience store I’ve been in, for almost 20 years doing this stuff, has left me shrugging about their digital signage effort – but the program put in by a travel stop chain called Love’s is an exception. It looks really good. And smart. […]
Verge writer Brian Bishop recently gave readers a peek inside HBO’s immersive Westworld: The Experience when he reported back from this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International. As with most immersive event experiences, Westworld: The Experience drew fans in and didn’t let go. […]
So when I saw video of the University of Texas Longhorns’ football locker room, with LCD screens over every locker, it occurred to me that this was going to be something that would get emulated by other schools. Turns out that U of T borrowed on something another big football program, Texas A&M’s Aggies, did three years ago. […]
Guest Post: Richard Murton, Display Technology These days, the importance of engaging with customers is widely recognized – as is the ever-increasing difficulty of doing so. The simple fact of the matter is that customers are becoming highly expert at deploying their own, internal “anti-spam” filters, to deal with all the calls on their attention coming at them from all directions. […]
A spin-off from HP Labs is working with RED – the high-def digital camera guys – to release a smartphone that features a holographic display – a glimpse at tech that also has digital signage touted as a use-case. Red Digital Cinema is working with Leia Inc on what’s being billed as the world’s first lightfield “holographic” smartphone – the HYDROGEN ONE. […]
