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16:9: How McDonald’s Has Made In-Store Interactivity The Norm

Guest Post: Emily Ingram, Prendi Emily Ingram Consumer expectations are advancing rapidly, and businesses will benefit if they keep up with it. Here’s a look into how McDonald’s have tackled this, to meet our growing expectations. I walked into McDonald’s the other day with a colleague, who went immediately up to the touchscreen kiosk to complete her order. […]

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Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 8:31 AM

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16:9’s 2018 year In review for digital signage: a full CMS is an overkill; accelerating consolidation and other trends for 2019

Here are the most heavily-read posts on 16:9 in 2018, as well as (later) my observations on the major trends in 2018 for digital signage, and what may be coming in 2019. As you will notice right away, readers like free or cheap, and they definitely like lists and headlines that promise 3 or 5 or 20 items or ideas. […]

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Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 7:58 PM

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16:9: More Smart Parking Systems Should Mean More Smart Digital Signs

Digital signage systems for parking lots is not the sort of thing that’s going to set the hearts of industry people racing, but there’s reason to pat attention to this use-case because of the way these very utilitarian venues are going smart. […]

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Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 7:00 PM

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16:9: Big LED Fail At Montreal’s Trudeau Airport

From a reader – This is a very large LED display board at international arrivals at Montreal’s main airport, shot this weekend. I THINK this is a media company’s display, and not the airport’s. […]

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Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 10:54 AM

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16:9: New Istanbul Airport Goes Big On Direct View LED, LCD Smart Signs

The new Istanbul Airport in Turkey, which is opening in phases, has almost 700 Samsung LCD and LED displays, with the direct view LED encompassing more than 1,000 sq. meters of visual space. The centerpieces of the install are two giant 193-sq. […]

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Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 12:18 PM

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Navori Debuts “Insane” Capability To Drive 16 Different Signals To 16 HD Screens Off One Player

The Swiss software firm Navori will be showing some new in-house technology at ISE that it says gets an “insane” amount of display performance out of a single playback box. […]

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Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:57 AM

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16:9: Chinese LED Firm Marketing A Version Of That Failed Times Square Shape-Shifting Screen

One might have thought the shape-shifting LED display that Coca-Cola put in Times Square was such a disaster, as innovations go, that the market for such a product was created and killed in a matter of weeks. […]

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Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 5:45 AM

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Intuiface Adds Deep Analytics To Its Interactive Design Suite

The French software firm Intuiface is the latest vendor in the digital signage ecosystem to add analytics capabilities to its overall offer – though in this case it is less about viewer movement and time as it is about the specifics of interactive display sessions. […]

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Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 8:02 AM

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16:9: Rome’s Airport Has Shape-Shifting LED Ad Chandelier

Anything with moving parts has risks, but using programmed hydraulic arms and LED screens inside and airport is way, way, way less trouble-prone and risky than something with thousands of sync’d, ever-moving bits on an outside display. That’s why comparing this install to the doomed Coca-Cola display in Times Square isn’t all that relevant. […]

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Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 9:55 AM

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16:9: Video: LAX Int’L Terminal Gets Content Refresh For Iconic Digital Signage Install

The LAX International Terminal digital experience is a few years old now, but to the credit of the airport and JC Decaux, which has the media concession for the airport, the content is being refreshed. This is a loop showing the content being developed for the seven big display elements in the post-security part of the terminal, as developed by the Paris-based experiential content shop Admemori. […]

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Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 5:33 AM

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16:9: Why Kaan Gunay’s Digital OOH Media Startup Is Going On Rideshare Cartops

There’s nothing new about media on taxi tops, but a San Francisco start-up called Firefly is trying to go about it with a different approach. Firefly describes itself as the first mobility-based SmartScreens platform – an advertising media firm that gets it footprint and scale from the rideshare industry. […]

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Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 5:17 PM

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Kiosk Mashes Up Robots And Touchscreens For Vending Machine Coffee You’d Actually Drink

Drinking coffee that comes out of vending machines tends to be an act of desperation (or utter indifference), but here’s an automated coffee machine that serves up the good stuff. […]

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Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 7:16 AM

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16:9: STRATACACHE Acquires Chinese Specialty DisplayCo; Rebrands As Scala China

There is now a Scala China, in the wake of parent company STRATACACHE acquiring a tablet and computing device manufacturing company based in Ningbo, China. The company, formerly known as POPSCREENS, is now Scala China – positioned as a solution for interactive retail displays. The deal gets CEO Chris Riegel a 250,000 square foot manufacturing facility, and more than 125 new employees. […]

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Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 3:00 AM

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16:9: Leyard Partners With LED Rival Lighthouse To Chase Sports Venue Signage Business

In what seems like a slightly-odd partnership, Leyard (and Planar, which it acquired) have forged a partnership with a competitor to build up its LED display capabilities in the sports and entertainment market. […]

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Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 2:21 PM

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LED Screens Starting To See Adoption By Cinema

It would not have been unreasonable to look at Samsung’s push into digital cinema – marketing fine pitch, direct view LEDs as an alternative to screens and projectors – as an interesting concept, but not one that would see much adoption because of cost. […]

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Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 11:36 AM

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