Beaverton, Oregon-based Planar has started marketing a 4K pro display series that includes an embedded, networked Android media player capable of driving 4K resolutions and ready for h.265 video and HTML5. […]
This is a special edition of the 16:9 Podcast – special because the format’s a little different and because I’m turning this around too quickly to get it polished up by the guy who sound engineers these things. So no music. Maybe a bit more background noise. […]
Taiwan-based AOPEN started showing off a pair of new commercial-grade Chrome devices yesterday at the NRF show – a smaller, much cheaper solid state Chromebox and a tablet-sized Chromebase. The latter, the Chromebase Mini, is a 10.1 inch all-in-one touchscreen that would compete with commercial-grade tablets and small system on chip displays. […]
BrightSign is hoping to make a splash at ISE 2017, with the company set to debut its new Series 3 Player range at the show. For those in-the-know, the BrightSign Series 3 Player range launched back in September with a number of new features to satisfy the digital signage industry. […]
The National Retail Federation’s big annual trade show starts up on Sunday in New York, and I was very happy to learn it should be mid 40sF and sunny when I get in. I have been at that show other Januarys when the winter wind coming off the Hudson chilled anyone to the bone. […]
Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix You’ve spent untold resources – both time and money – getting your digital signage system up and running. But is it working? Do people look at your screens? […]
A few digital signage companies I know have been taking a look at the rapidly rising number of U.S. states that are now allowing the open sale of recreational and/or medical marijuana, and thinking this was a still early stage business vertical they could tap into. […]
Integrated Systems Europe is coming up at the start of next month in Amsterdam, and Mike Blackman is the guy who has built ISE up to be the largest pro AV show on the planet. It’s also the biggest digital signage show in terms of footprint and exhibitors, though signage is just one element of the event. […]
In an interesting, slightly odd twist, Dallas-based solutions provider/softwareco Reflect has appointed the guy at the center of one of the company’s higher profile projects as its new CEO. […]
Guest Post: Kenneth Brinkmann, Posterscope USA Kenneth Brinkmann The rise of connected cities provides three major opportunities for the OOH industry. First, our industry will have much greater access to more accurate real-time location data thanks to connectivity of all objects. If we look ahead into 2020, Gartner estimates that 25 billion objects will be connected to the Internet. […]
A San Francisco-based company is showing an interactive digital license plate debuts today at the North American International Auto Show, which opened this week in Detroit. The rPlate is touted as the first upgrade in 125 years on license plates – a multi-functional display that can do things like DMV registration automation, hyper-local messaging, telematics and vehicle management. […]
Chris Riegel is continuing to buy up competitors in the digital signage software space, with news bright and early this morning that his Dayton, OH-based company STRATACACHE has acquired Sarasota, FL-based Real Digital Media. Both are content management software firms with similar products – though Stratacache has a much bigger headcount and sells much more in terms of services and hardware. […]
Panasonic and IBM were showing a smart mirror/digital concierge last week during CES, at an offsite demo area run by IBM. The Panasonic Digital Concierge uses the IBM Watson artificial intelligence platform as part of a digital envisioned as being installed in the rooms of, let’s assume, higher-end hotels. […]
A little lost in the blizzard of gadget announcements coming out CES in Las Vegas this week was word from Intel of a new family of NUC computers and a new credit-card sized computer moduls that could very conceivably plug into a flat panel display to use in digital signage. […]
A couple of LA companies have put together a partnership that would see mobile social gaming integrated with a digital signage platform’s offer. […]
