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SICOM Picks Up Jamba Juice’s Digital Menu Board Business

They don’t get a lot of attention, or make much if any marketing noise in the digital signage industry, but a Philly area company called SICOM is quietly building up a nice portfolio of digital display clients in the QSR space. SICOM has announced that Jamba Juice has selected it as the exclusive provider of digital menu boards and other marketing and promotion screens in the stores. […]

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Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 9:07 AM

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Digital LED Waterfalls At Casino Lounge Replicate Real Falls In Nearby Mountains

This is a really interesting use of fine pitch LED in a new resort casino in New York state’s Catskills region. It’s a 2.5mm pixel pitch curved wall behind the Empire Lounge bar stage at Resorts World Catskills, which opened about 10 weeks ago. The 42 feet wide, 13 feet tall canvas has a resolution of 4992 by 1536 pixels, so more than 4K with its width. […]

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Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 4:42 AM

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Projects: Mosaic Video Walls At Stella McCartney Flagships

This is the video wall set-up being put in at 11 Stella McCartney flagship stores across Europe, the US and Asia, highlighting the spring and summer collections for the fashion house. UK integrator Freehand put the project together, developing visual interesting mosaics instead of just grouping them in big rectangles in the high street windows. […]

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Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:34 AM

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16:9: LED And The Perils Of Public Reach

Medium to fine pitch LED displays can have tremendous visual impact in the right environment, but the thing customers should always bear in mind is that the little surface-mounted LED chips that produce the colored light are fragile – attached to their substrates with microscopic wiring. […]

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Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 3:39 PM

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16:9: Struggling German Visual Solutions Firm Eyevis Acquired By Chinese LED Giant Leyard

The big LED display manufacturer Leyard, based in China, has acquired the German video wall and display cube company eyevis – giving the company a greater sales and marketing foothold in western Europe and into the Middle East. The announcement names both Leyard and Portland, OR-based Planar (which Leyard acquired) as the companies leading the deal. […]

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Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 1:17 PM

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16:9: How We Demystified Shelf Digital Tags, And Put Them To Use

Guest Post: Matt Downey, Freshwater Digital Matt Downey A couple of years ago my company started researching and contacting e-paper (or ESL manufacturers, as they’re commonly referred to) to learn more about the requirements, capabilities, and costs of digital shelf tags. We’re a digital signage solutions company to the core, but this new technology intrigued us. […]

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Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:38 AM

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16:9: Research Suggests Buyer Confidence Boosts Sales Of Commercial Displays

New research is suggesting confidence in the durability of commercial display products will mean the numbers of them will grow, per location, by 20 percent over the next three years. A new report from the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association (AVIXA) and PMA Research says that growth will happen even though replacement cycles for displays are getting lengthier. […]

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Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 3:51 PM

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16:9 Podcasts – Jenn Vail of E Ink On The Future of E-paper In Digital Signage

E-paper has been around for 20-plus years and it has gradually been improving to a point that it makes operating, commercial and visual sense for digital signage applications. […]

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Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 4:11 PM

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16:9: Menu Board Hack – Using Extending Mounts To Compensate For Bad Design

Spotted by a regular reader at a food stand in T2 at SFO airport – QSR menu screens with mounts that pull the screen out from the wall recesses when they need to be serviced … except they just left them out. Doesn’t look good, with cables hanging down, tilted screens and so on. And there’s the HBF sign that’s askew. […]

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Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 8:32 AM

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16:9: The Digital Campus: The Rising Challenge For Education

Guest Post: Joe Rabah, RMG Networks Gone are the days of the cold, impersonal lecture halls, with rows of students diligently writing notes after notes long-form in books and files they later go on to lose.  Today’s students are ‘digital natives’ brought up in a world of smart phones, high speed wi-fi and technology on demand. […]

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Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 8:15 AM

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Projects: Century-old Garden Center Group Takes (Some Of) Its Messaging Digital

This is a straightforward menuboard and messaging boards set-up at Notcutts Garden Centres Ltd  – which has 18 individual garden centres across England and has been doing this sort of thing for more than a century. The family-owned company cut over from pure print and some tablet-sized displays manually updated by thumb drive. […]

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Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 6:42 AM

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Amazon’s LED-filled Visitor Center Explains Its New Rainforest Office Space In Seattle

This is an area called Understory – an LED-filled exhibit and visitor center tied in with The Spheres – three giant intersecting, plant-filled domes that are part of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters building. […]

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Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 8:48 PM

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Interactive She Too Digital Wall Prompts On-The-Spot Donations

This is a nice charity campaign in Toronto’s underground PATH concourse system that weaves through much of the central business district – involving a video wall and a nearby station that enables on-the-spot donations. […]

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Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 10:08 AM

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16:9 Podcasts – Reece Kurtenbach On Why Hyper-Competition Is Nothing New To Daktronics

Reece Kurtenbach now runs Daktronics, the company started by his father and a university colleague 50 years ago – and has grown up seeing it evolve from electronic voting systems from state politicians to the maker behind some of the biggest and most iconic LED display boards on the planet. […]

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Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 7:01 AM

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NEC, BrightSign Pair Up On New Bundled Offer

In what seems like a pretty smart move, among several lately, BrightSign has paired up with yet another tech company in the digital signage ecosystem to make its little purple media players part of the offer and solution. […]

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Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 4:34 PM

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