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16:9: UK’s Allsee Is Marketing Battery-Powered Digital Sandwich Boards

Birmingham, UK-based Allsee Technologies has started marketing a digital sandwich board display that’s portable and runs 12-plus hours on a rechargeable battery. The pitch is that these things are easily positioned wherever they need to be, and don’t need to be against a wall to get power, or require a power cord that becomes a tripping risk. […]

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Thu, May 2, 2019 at 10:15 AM

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16:9: It’s 2019 And We’re Still Doing Carved-Up Screens???

My calendar confirms it is indeed 2019, and not 2009 – which makes it somewhat mind-wobbling that there are still start-up media companies touting an ad model for out of home environments based on the totally different dynamics of web advertising. […]

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Thu, May 2, 2019 at 9:37 AM

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16:9: Another, Very Different Digital Signage Fail At Timmies

This is a Tim Horton’s in downtown Toronto this morning, as spotted by a digital signage vet. I’ve seen lots of Timmies where one or several screens are out – notably at Montreal’s airport – but this is a new one. Things are working – but the screens all have on-screen messaging for SICOM, weirdly backwards – and information on the operating system. […]

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Thu, May 2, 2019 at 9:11 AM

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San Francisco Venue Using Projection Mapping To Create Immersive Dining Experience

Projection-mapping seems to be finding its way, more and more, to full-time or extended run indoor projects that are about entertainment and experience. This is F.E.A.S.T – an immersive and interactive dining experience at a San Francisco entertainment, arts and events venue called Onedome. […]

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Thu, May 2, 2019 at 8:50 AM

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Vancouver Office Tower Uses OLED Video Wall To Replace Directory, Renew Lobby

This is a tiled LG 2 by 6 OLED video wall built into the lobby wall of an office tower in downtown Vancouver, BC. The displays are set into a bamboo wood wall set against a granite wall. They replaced a physical building directory. […]

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Thu, May 2, 2019 at 8:07 AM

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16:9: NYC Bans Booze Ads On Street-Level OOH Media

This is a development I’m sure out of home media companies hope doesn’t become a trend – banning booze ads on things like transit shelters. The City of New York has followed the lead of its Metropolitan Transportation Authority by banning alcohol-related advertising on most city-owned properties. […]

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Wed, May 1, 2019 at 7:17 PM

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3 Creative Tips for Organizations Using Donor Walls

Donor walls are a must-have for any organization that wants to recognize and acknowledge the generous donations of their contributors. Most big organizations that solicit donations already have some type of donor wall set up, but in most cases, these are old-fashioned plaques and displays that are hard to install and update. […]

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Wed, May 1, 2019 at 11:26 AM

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16:9: Diversified Expands To Australia Via Integrator Acquisition

The largest digital signage-focused integrator out there – New Jersey-based Diversified – just added what will undoubtedly be its most far-flung office, in Australia. […]

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Wed, May 1, 2019 at 8:38 AM

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LG Announces Dates For Display Tech Road Shows Across US

LG has announced the schedule for its annual TechTour, with the first roving road show date set for two weeks in Washington, DC. The electronics giant has events planned for: May 14 – Washington, DC July 24 – Dallas Aug. 22 – Orange County, CA Sept. […]

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Wed, May 1, 2019 at 8:06 AM

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Neeraj Pendse Talks About Elo’s Deep History In Touch, And How To Make Interactive Truly Work

Elo has been doing touchscreens for 40 years – way, way before marketers started cooking up phrases like customer engagement technology. Over that time, the company has shipped more than 25 million units. So Elo knows touch, and interactive. […]

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Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 11:05 PM

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16:9: The Store With The Most Screens Doesn’t Necessarily Win

Canadian sporting goods and apparel retailer SportChek has large footprint shopping mall and standalone stores across the country and has, for many years now, been an early and enthusiastic adopter of digital signage technology. On one hand, it has been great to see a retailer making a big investment in screens and related hardware and software. […]

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Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 11:00 PM

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16:9: Canada’s Mountain Equipment Coop Outsources In-Store Digital Signage To Cineplex

Immediately on the heels of my rant about a sporting goods retailer doing digital signage badly comes word of another Canadian retailer – also kinda sorta in the same category – expanding and revising its in-store digital signage. […]

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Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 9:54 AM

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16:9: LCD TV Shipments From China Increased 10X In Past Year

Chris Riegel,  CEO of STRATACACHE, had a guest post on here a few weeks ago about the very rapid rise of China as a large-format LCD display manufacturer, and its implications. Here’s more evidence of that sudden rise: Business information provider IHS Markit has a new report out suggesting shipments of large format LCD TVs from China increased 10X … in the past year! […]

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Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 8:32 AM

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16:9: DSF Mixer Set For Seattle Next Week

The Digital Signage Federation has one of its traveling meet and greet networking mixers set for next Wednesday in downtown Seattle. The event starts at 6 pm, and there will be cocktails, nibblies and a presentation about Amazon Spheres, the digital signage that locally-based Amazon did at its new downtown Seattle space. Not sure who is doing the presentation, but it is a great project. […]

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Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 11:27 AM

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16:9: Malware Takes Out Passenger Information Screens At Cleveland’s Airport

The flight information (FIDS) and gate information (GIDS) screens went out of service last week at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport after a ransomware attack on the passenger-facing systems. The screens went dark a week ago, and the airport’s CIO said this morning that it was still working to get them all back online. Wow! […]

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Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 10:51 AM

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