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16:9: Coke’s Ballyhooed Shape-Shifting LED Board In Time Square Is Now Very Much 2D

We will probably never get a public story about the three-dimensional, robotic direct view LED display that Coke spent an unknown PILE of money on for Times Square. If you were a contractor and influenced the decision to do that, you’re keeping quiet and saving face. If it is your tech, you are definitely not saying anything. […]

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Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 12:07 PM

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16:9: New NYC Pier 17 Destination’s Atrium Enveloped In Direct-View

The same company that put together the sync’d LED messaging and ad displays at NYC’s busy Fulton Center has done a similar job at the new Pier 17 at the Seaport District in Lower Manhattan. The technology service provider ANC has installed and now manages a new digital media network that includes more than 2,000 square feet of 4mm outdoor LED integrated throughout the complex. […]

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Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 10:49 AM

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16:9: High Street Releases First Free Quarterly Report On What’s Hot (And Not) In Retail Tech

The folks over at the boutique retail tech and experience consultancy HighStreet Collective have launched what will be a  quarterly report measuring the top 12 technologies that are currently being used in brick and mortar retail – showing what’s getting some traction and what’s just not happening. […]

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Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 5:05 PM

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16:9: Mega-Mall’s Digital Directories Reduce Search Times From Minutes To Seconds

Metrics on digital signage projects aren’t always that easy to find – sometimes, I think, because the results are shrug-worthy – but here’s an example of interactive directories going into a mega-mall and making a tangible difference in how people find their way around. […]

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Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 5:53 AM

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16:9: Huge LED Wall Fills Window At Polo Ralph Lauren US Open Tennis Store

The US Open starts today in greater New York City, and what’s also opened is a tennis-focused Polo Ralph Lauren store on the grounds of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Integrator Media Services Worldwide has installed a two-storey high direct view LED in the main window of the store. […]

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Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 5:24 AM

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16:9: Just As 4K Mainstreaming, And 8K On Far Horizon, 16K Displays Showing Up

If you are still trying to wrap your head around the rationale for using 8K resolution in digital signage, you’ll be tickled pink to learn display manufacturers are starting to show large format 16K product. The Taiwan-based display firm Innolux will be showing off a 100-inch 16K S-UHD display at the end of the month at Touch Taiwan Display International 2018. […]

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Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 8:30 PM

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16:9: Five Pitfalls For Agencies And Integrators In A Commoditizing Digital Signage Marketplace

Guest Post: Geoff Bessin, Intuiface Geoff Bessin You’re probably aware of the Innovator’s Dilemma. An innovative company corners a market and then becomes inwardly focused, directing efforts towards protecting its existing business model and technology rather than innovating further. The result is a company that becomes vulnerable to the type of upstarts they once were. […]

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Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:38 PM

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16:9: Toshiba, Directable Debut All-In-One Smart Signage TVs Using Amazon’s Fire Tech

Toshiba now has Amazon’s Fire streaming media player integrated in one of its TV lines, and a small digital signage CMS company is touting an integration that effectively makes it a low-cost “smart” signage display. […]

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Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 9:02 AM

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16:9: Start-Up Grabb-It Turns Rideshare Cars Into Rolling Digital OOH Posters

A San Francisco start-up called Grabb-It is trying to make a go of a Digital OOH advertising model that puts pico projectors in the back of ride-share cars that beam ads on to a rear passenger window. The ads show up on windows because of a transparent film overlay added to the window. The spots only run when the Uber or Lyft or whatever does not have an active fare. […]

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Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 12:09 PM

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Giant Vertical LED Wall Greets Visitors To Northwestern U’s New Athletic Center

The lobby of the newly opened Walter Athletics Center at Northwestern University in Chicago has a giant vertical LED wall, as well as what looks like large tiled (and possibly interactive) flat-panel display walls to the sides. The facility, which opened August 1st, sits on the shores of Lake Michigan at the school’s Evanston campus. […]

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Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 8:44 AM

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Toronto Buses Getting Pairs Of Information Screens That, Surprisingly, Aren’t For Ads

Photo – DailyHive – TechnicaProductions, YouTube screenshot Via DailyHive and BlogTO Toronto’s Transit Commission (more commonly known as the TTC) is putting in pairs of 29-inch ceiling mounted screens in 525 buses over the next two years, and somewhat surprisingly, they’re being used properly as passenger information displays and not for “captive” advertising. […]

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Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 7:36 AM

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16:9: Pierre Gendron On Stingray’s Digital Signage Expansion Plans

Stingray Digital Media Group is one the world’s biggest providers of multi-platform music services, with 11,000 commercial clients in 156 countries. […]

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Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 12:11 AM

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16:9: Digital signage nightmare at Gatwick: what happened

The nightmare digital signage problem at Gatwick Airport Monday was resolved around 5 PM local time, with the problem isolated to a Vodafone fiber optic cable being inadvertently cut – perhaps by a construction crew. The earlier issue with with our flight information screens in the terminals has now been resolved and flights are showing correctly. […]

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Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 10:10 AM

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16:9: Coin-Op Laundry Uses Digital Signage To Drive Programs, Trim Costs

This is a coin-operated laundry business in White Bear, MN (near Minneapolis-St. Paul) using a set of back-to-back screens to drive information around their rewards program, an app and other locations. There is also a hyperlocal ad sales model. […]

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Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 8:56 AM

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16:9: 3M Suing Touch Display Manufacturers Over P-Cap Tech, Alleging Infringement

3M has gone after a pair of touch display manufacturers, with lawsuits alleging its patents for metal mesh conductor technology has been infringed. The latest lawsuit was filed in a federal district court in Las Vegas against South Korea-based Tovis Co. Ltd. […]

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Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 8:13 AM

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