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16:9: New 4th Gen Raspberry Pi Has 4X RAM And Does Dual 4K

The UK-based Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the 4th generation of its micro PC board – a Raspberry Pi 4 that for a $35 barebones price has 4X the RAM of earlier versions, as well as a faster CPU and graphics, faster Ethernet, dual-band Wi-Fi, twice the amount of HDMI outputs, and two USB 3 ports. The $35 unit comes with 1 GB of RAM and 2 costs $45, while 4 is $55. […]

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Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 8:40 AM

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16:9: DPAA Study: Awareness, Understanding And Use Of DOOH All On Rise

The DPAA has released results of a new survey about the attitudes about digital out-of-home media and how it is used. “As with our past planner surveys, these latest results will prove invaluable in helping our industry deliver more value to the ad community, sell more effectively and increase budget shares,” says Barry Frey, the president and CEO of the DPAA. […]

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Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 3:03 PM

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16:9: ComQi, AUO Team Up On Swappable, Upgradeable Smart Digital Signage Displays

The NYC-based digital signage CMS firm ComQi is starting to show some tangible technical evidence of its ties to parent company AUO, the Taiwanese display manufacturer that acquired them last year. […]

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Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 2:26 PM

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16:9: Family Fare Grocery Chain Uses Digital Merchandising Displays And End-Caps

Here are a couple of different digital merchandising displays put together for the Family Fare supermarket chain by another Grand Rapids’ MI-based company, Freshwater Digital. […]

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Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 8:20 AM

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16:9: Digital Signage And Smart Content

Guest Post: Mike Kilian, Mvix Mike Kilian Some things just go together and once they’re paired up, and it’s nearly impossible to imagine them on their own – like digital signage and content. Those two go together like s’mores and campfires. Peanut butter and jelly. […]

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Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 7:44 AM

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Podcast Production Being Reworked – Short Hiatus

If you listen regularly to the 16:9 Podcasts, you may have noticed some hiccups with the production and release timing of some recent episodes. Some have been late and others have had minor boo-boos or levels that weren’t uniform. […]

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Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:59 AM

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16:9: InfoComm 2019 Draws 44K+ Attendees, 950+ Exhibitors

AVIXA – the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association – says last week’s InfoComm show in Orlando logged 44,129 registered attendees, up modestly from the last Florida show and about 1,300 over last year in Las Vegas. The show gets roughly half the attendees who go to Integrated Systems Europe (ISE had 81,000), which runs in February and is co-owned by AVIXA. […]

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Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 9:16 AM

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16:9 from InfoComm Day 2: No Great Leaps Forward, But Many Subtle Advances

Tons of great conversations and product demos on Thursday at InfoComm 2019. While it is very, very accurate to say there was/is not a whole pile that is strikingly new at this trade show, as you might expect,  when you dig in, there’s lots going on and lots of subtle but meaningful improvements or innovations. […]

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Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 6:02 PM

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16:9 from InfoComm 2019 Day One: Even The Projector Companies Are Going LED

You know direct view LED is catching on in a big way with the pro AV crowd when companies known for projectors have big LED displays as focal points of booths. That was the case at InfoComm with Optoma and with Digital Projection, which has, umm, projection in its name. The latter has had LED in its product line for a while, but I don’t recall this prominence. […]

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Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 7:22 PM

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16: How Lamar Advertising is growing its digital assets

In the out of home space, Lamar Advertising is huge. The Baton Rouge-based media company is in 160 metro areas in the US, and has more than 3,300 roadside digital billboards. The company is steadily adding more digital, notably in environments like airports. […]

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Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 2:57 AM

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16:9: LG Formally Launches Transparent OLED For US Market

It appears LG’s next big thing to be showcased at InfoComm this week will be quite familiar to much of that show’s pro AV crowd. Transparent OLED has been around for several years, and definitely demo’d at trade show booths, but LG Business Solutions says it is officially launching its commercial, 55-inch digital signage display for the US market this week. […]

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Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 10:51 AM

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16:9: SiliconCore Joins Ranks Of LED Displaycos With Ruggedized Surfaces

The high-end fine-pitch LED manufacturer SiliconCore is the latest firm to announce a product that adds a coating to protect fragile LED chips. The company’s InfoComm presence will include displays that use its LISA technology – “a proprietary surface protection layer that guard the LEDs from contact (or impact) damage, without compromising the brightness or image fidelity. […]

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Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 6:38 AM

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Orlando-Bound: InfoComm 2019’s Halls Opens Wednesday, And 16:9 Is There

It is InfoComm week, and this year the show is in Orlando once again, as it is every second year. The weather forecast says high 80s, high humidity and thunderstorms – so if you venture outdoors you are going to be soaked either by perspiration or passing storms. Always fun! […]

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Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 10:19 AM

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16:9: Two Examples Of Low Rez LED Displays That Are More Mood Than Message

Here’s a couple of examples of low-resolution LED display applications that use blend with fabric or film to create soft, diffused visuals that are meant as motion backdrops or accents. The first is a fixture by the NYC printing company Duggal, which has a digital wing and created an interesting spin-out product called . […]

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Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 8:54 AM

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16:9: DSF Toronto’s Breakfast Event Pulls Some 60 Attendees For Digital In Dining

The Toronto chapter of the Digital Signage Federation had its second breakfast event this morning, focused on Digital In Dining. […]

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Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 2:47 PM

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