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16:9: Atletico Madrid’s New Stadium Has 300+ Digital Signage Screens

The Spanish football (soccer) team Atletico Madrid will have a new stadium when the new season starts in a few weeks, and it will open with more than 300 digital signage screens and another 500 IPTV screens. The Wanda Metropolitano, located in East Madrid, is running the signage and IPTV on UK-based Tripleplay’s software platform and using LG WebOS SoC display panels. […]

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Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 8:48 AM

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16:9 Projects Podcast: Terrell Place, by ESI Design

Downtown Washington, D.C.’s Terrell Place is an office and retail complex named after civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell, a founding member of the NAACP, who led the protest against segregation at Hecht’s lunch counter in the 1950s. […]

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Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 3:11 PM

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How To Use Meeting Room Analytics For The Future Of Your Business

Guest Post: Neil Rieger, Signet Your workforce’s meetings are at the heart of your organization. They are where employees get together to collaborate and ultimately drive your company forward, possibly making them one of the most important aspects of your office environment. […]

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Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 7:53 AM

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Projects: 3-Storey Floating LED Wall Greets USC J-School Students

This is the student atrium in the newly-built Annenberg Hall at the University of Southern California in LA, which has a showpiece 3-storey-tall display intended to draw the attention of students, possibly even getting them to look up from their smartphones. The hall is part of the ?Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. […]

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Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 11:28 AM

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Projects: Selfridge’s Takes Its Staff Communications Digital

This is a look inside how digital signage is being used for internal communications by iconic UK retailer Selfridges. AV integrator AVMI has put a high-impact LED wall at the London offices’ “Team Tunnel” and a network of over 30 Samsung Smart Signage screens at Selfridges office and retail locations in Manchester, Birmingham, Leicester and London. […]

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Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 9:21 AM

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Aug. 8th Webinar Looks At Protecting Digital Signage Against Hackers

An awful lot of the webinars that get organized by vendors or trade associations tend to re-visit familiar territory, but a session coming up in early August is, I think, the first to get into the touchy subject of preventing digital signage displays from being hacked. […]

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Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 8:59 AM

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16:9: STRATACACHE Launches Turnkey Service Available To Clients Not On Its Digital Signage Platforms

STRATACACHE has launched a turnkey field support service that, intriguingly, will work on jobs regardless of whether the network is running on a STRATACACHE product. The Smart Service Team, says a press release, is multi-functional. […]

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Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 5:11 PM

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Projects: Sunset Countdown Focal Point Of UK Grocer’s Summer Digital OOH Campaign

This is a simple but effective use of data to drive home an emotion in a Digital OOH ad campaign- a countdown clock for UK sunsets. The campaign, for the grocer Sainsbury’s, uses live sunset data for local areas associated with major commuter rail stations that have large ad screens. […]

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Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 7:37 AM

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Michael Higgins, Harris School Solutions

Public schools would seem like a natural fit for digital signage because of all the communications that circulate, all the time, in K-12 schools. A software company that’s focused on the education market – Harris School Solutions – recently announced a product that’s an interesting blend of digital signage and smartphone apps. […]

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Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:21 AM

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16:9: Kiwi C-Store Chain’s Digital Signage Screens Drive Triple-Digit Sales

Sales lift stories tend to be hard to come by from retailers and brands using digital signage, often because they’re not overly motivated to tell competitors what’s working. But here’s a short case study out of New Zealand about screens in the forecourts and inside New Zealand BP gas stations and c-stores. […]

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Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 6:25 PM

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LG Starts Loyalty Program Aimed At Architects, Designers

The Business Solutions of LG’s US operations has started a loyalty program aimed at architects and design consultants, built around providing access to resources, support and training related to commercial display products. […]

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Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 9:30 AM

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Startup Kitcast Launches Apple TV-focused Digital Signage Platform

Silicon Valley-based Kitcast! is the latest company to develop a digital signage application that runs off AppleTV set top boxes. The company, started three years ago, says its platform comes with smart, custom templates to reduce content creation costs, and the system is touted as simple enough for non-technical users to launch and manage. […]

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Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 9:08 AM

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VIA Launches 4K H.265-Ready Commercial Android Digital Signage Player

Taiwan-based VIA Technologies recently launched a 4K-ready version of its commercial-grade Android digital signage player – a unit that supports HTML5 and H.265 video compression. The nerdy H.265 thing is important, as 4K video files can be huge, but the relatively new compression standard nicely shrinks the sizes down so they can move around networks in the way standard HD files do now. […]

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Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 10:08 AM

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16:9: Nanolumens Puts One Patent Infringement Lawsuit On Hold

NanoLumens has filed a dismissal, without prejudice, on one of the patent infringement lawsuits it launched about a month ago against four U.S. competitors. The  suit against Gable Signs & Graphics, Inc. […]

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Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 9:38 AM

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AOpen, Sharp Announce New Snap-In Windows Media Players For Digital Signage

The options for all-in-one displays continues to broaden, with Sharp announcing a partnership with AOPEN that allows a small Windows 10-based media player to be slot-loaded in a 4K screen. The new arrangement uses the mini version of the Open Pluggable Specification (OPS) launched a few years back by Intel. […]

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Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 8:36 AM

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