These are end-caps with digital headers being put in by InstoreScreen in Whole Foods stores in the U.S. The grocer uses them to market house brands. They’re LCD screens – custom-manufactured for the job (as opposed to some skinny LCDs which started out as conventional 16:9 screens and were then cut). […]
It is reasonable to suggest that Sony has been, at most, on the fringes of the digital signage industry for many years. So it’s interesting to stumble across indications that it 1) has a solution and 2) it’s getting used. […]
Casino sportsbook areas are target-rich environments for companies selling fine pitch LED display solutions, because of a wicked combination of a need for very screens, already bright environments to put them, and invariably large egos of casino owners – who tend to want to one-up the owners of competing properties with bigger, better bling. […]
It looks LG has a big cross-section of companies co-exhibiting with it at its Tech Tour event in New York on Nov. 1. LG’s commercial display partners at the event in Hell’s Kitchen include BrightSign, Chief, Peerless Av and numerous CMS companies like Gauddi (from the Netherlands), Hughes, Omnivex, Ping HD, Skykit, Tripleplay and 22 Miles. […]
The Boston-area market research firm International Data Corporation has released new data on the global digital signage market that suggests Samsung continues to be the big dog when it comes to display shipments, with LG second and, in a slightly weird twist, a company I’ve never heard of ahead of NEC in third spot. Goodview??? […]
Here’s a slick, budget-friendly application of LED modules in the shop windows of Diesel’s Barcelona flagship store. The AV/multimedia firm Instronic, also based in Barcelona, put together a shop window branding program that uses 47 of what it calls LED fingers, looking a bit like a big city skyline. There also appears to be a big backdrop LED in one of the windows. […]
Many things seem to be way over the top, so to speak, when done on the Arab side of the Persian Gulf. Consider news that the Swedish fast-fashion retailer H&M opened on Sept. 12th its largest store on the planet in a Kuwait mall that already had five H&M stores. […]
Taiwan-based E Ink will be at the CEATAC trade show in Japan mid-month show off its new Advanced Color ePaper – call ACeP – which does full color at every pixel without the use of a color filter array, something used in its previous large format color displays. The company says: ACeP achieves a full color gamut, including all eight primary colors, using only colored pigments. […]
This is what’s being billed as the largest interactive video wall on the planet – set in a rail hub in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The project was put together for the Saudi Arabia Railway (SAR) by the huge Spanish integrator Trison. The job required a curved interactive screen that would be 37 meters wide and 1.2 meters high. […]
The famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre south of Denver resolved a big issue around the concert venue with keeping food and drinks concession signage timely and accurate – resorting to printing and manually replacing static signage at each individual stand. […]
The footwear brand New Balance did an interesting machine learning-driven digital signage piece on the streets of New York recently, putting up a screen and sensors that scanned approaching pedestrians and flagging those people who weren’t dressing like everyone else. […]
A little ironically, I am on my way to Montreal on an in-and-out speaking thing as this post goes up about work Montreal’s iGotcha Media is doing with Birks, which has been operating luxury jewelry stores in Canada for many, many decades. Birks is using vertical video walls to subtly underscore its brand in flagship stores. […]
Transparent LCD has been around for years now, but UK-based Crystal Display Systems has put a different spin on their use by marrying a transparent screen with a regular light-backed LCD in the same display case. […]
Guest Post: Jason Cremins, Signagelive Every company or organization regardless of their size or number of employees has a need to communicate openly and effectively with their teams. […]
Toronto-based Cineplex Digital Media (aka CDM) has been engaged by the European wing of Subway to “design, deploy, support and operate a network of digital menu boards at Subway locations across Europe. […]
