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16:9: Controlled Retail Tests Show 800%+ Sales Bump Using Triggered Digital Signage Messaging

Digital signage end-users in hyper-competitive sectors like retail and quick service restaurants have always tended to keep their cards really close to their chest when it comes to talking about the actual impact of digital signage networks. Why would they want to share results that inform and guide competitors? […]

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Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 3:52 PM

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16:9: In The Right Conditions, Switchable Glass And Laser Projectors Have Possibilities

I’ve seen switchable glass demo’d by NEC for rear projection window displays at a couple of trade shows this year, and while I thought it was interesting, the visual impact was a little muted. It had that age-old problem of not being bright enough to be effective in many scenarios. […]

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Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 9:09 AM

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16:9: Paper And Tape Are Not The Ideal Tools For Updating A Digital Menu Display

This is amazing(ly) bad – a digital menu display that has updated prices for food platters printed out, cut to size, and then taped to a live screen. I am not sure where but believe this is a grocer somewhere in the Ottawa or Montreal areas. […]

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Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 4:44 PM

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16:9: E-paper Screens Used As Patient Room Digital Signage In Florida Hospital

Using screens as digital meeting room signs has turned into a big business, with dozens of companies offering a smarter way to designate whether a meeting space is occupied or booked, and by whom. There’s another very different scenario where digital signs make a lot of sense outside of rooms, and that’s in medical centers. […]

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Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 1:05 PM

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16:9: Prague’s Airport Testing Digital Signage Display Tied To Predominant Passenger Languages

The international airport at Prague, in the Czech Republic, is testing a digital signage-driven communications system that tailors content to the predominant language of arriving travelers. […]

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Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 12:11 PM

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16:9: Cruise Line’s Mega-Ship Includes Dining Hall With Experiential LED Walls

The Spectrum of the Seas, a new mega-cruise ship in the fleet of Royal Caribbean International, uses big direct view LED screens to great effect in its main dining room. The three level dining area can feed more than 1,800 people at once. Passengers walk in from two decks, via a 16-meter-long LED corridor. […]

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Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 7:38 AM

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16:9: Display Market Analysts Expect 10% Cost Bump If Trump’s China Tariffs Kick In Sept. 1

The analyst firm DSCC, which focuses on the supply chain for the display industry, is suggesting the trade tariffs US President Trump will be imposing Sept. 1 on China could raise end-user costs by 10% across the range of electronics products coming out of that country. But it also suggests over-supply in the industry might actually push prices down in the short-term. […]

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Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 6:14 PM

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16:9: Tom Milner On Why Clean Screens Are More Than Just An Aesthetics Issue

Much of the focus in this industry is on the hardware and software used to put digital signage networks together, and increasingly, mercifully, on content and creative. Not that much attention gets paid to the service side of the business – installing screens and fixing devices when things go wrong. Even less attention is paid to keeping the hardware clean. […]

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Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 11:14 PM

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16:9: NEC Adds Super-Skinny Bezel Video Wall 55s

NEC is the latest LCD manufacturer to release a super/extreme/OMG narrow bezel video wall product, on the heels of recent announcements by LG and Planar/Leyard. The company has announced a pair of 55s – which seems to be the default size for video walls – that are either 500 or 700 nits. Either has what NEC calls an even bezel of 0.44mm. […]

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Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 11:39 AM

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16:9: Another Hung Timmie’s Screen – At Old Main Office

A reader sent along a couple of photos from a digital menuboard set-up at Tim Hortons. Stuff happens, things hang, but it happens a LOT lately at the Canadian coffee chain, which would have something like 20,000-plus screens in stores across the country. […]

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Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 7:44 AM

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16:9: Real-Time AR-Driven Video Wall Engages Shanghai Subway Riders

This is a 10-metre (30-ish feet) wide interactive LCD video wall in a Shanghai subway station that is using augmented reality to get passengers excited about a lemon iced tea product. When people stand in front of it, their faces appear on the screen in real time, adorned by lemon filters and a Vita Lemon Tea box at their mouths. […]

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Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 7:40 AM

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16:9: How Integrators View The LCD vs LED Video Wall Decision

I sometimes get white papers and research that a vendor hopes I report on or talk about, and then decide against it because the information is hopelessly skewed in favor of that vendor. It’s a bit like those recipe pamphlets that suggest you don’t just add a cup of this, it has to be specifically the vendor’s “this. […]

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Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 8:28 PM

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Iconic Philly Department Store Building Adds Gorgeous LED Digital Entry Canopy

Love this – the main entry to an iconic old department store building in Philadelphia was updated with a digital canopy and flanking displays, and now runs gorgeous custom creative. The former Lit Brothers Department Store was a cultural landmark that operated for nearly a century in Philly before closing its doors. […]

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Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 10:30 AM

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16:9: Adobe Showing Transparent Retail Display Hardware Concept At SIGGRAPH; And We’re Not Sure Why

Creative software giant Adobe continues to dabble in digital signage – first with its own Screens management software and now with display technology. The company will be at the SIGGRAPH gaming tech conference this week in LA showing off some skunkworks R&D tech that looks like transparent LCD and OLED screens got together overnight at a Vegas trade show, and had a love-child. […]

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Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 8:14 PM

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16:9: Canada’s Tim Hortons Coffee Chain Tests Digital-Rich Upmarket Cafe

I am not sure what the double-double crowd (Canadians will know what I mean) will think of a new Tim Hortons location opening up in Toronto’s financial district tomorrow. The Tim Hortons 130 King will be the company’s “first-ever innovation café. […]

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Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 5:29 AM

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