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16:9: Westfield Starts Rolling Out New Digital OOH Ad Pods In Flagship Malls

The US wing of Westfield has started rolling out new digital OOH advertising “pods” across its flagship shopping malls – with plans to put 220 units in place across the country. The high-bright, freestanding LCDs pods include 147 double-sided indoor units, 18 taller double-sided ones, and more than 50 double-sided ones built for outdoor. […]

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Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 9:30 AM

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16:9: NanoLumens Quickly Goes 4-4 In Patent Infringement Lawsuits

There are undoubtedly many, many times when C-suite people get the bill in from the company law firm, and wonder what the hell all those zeroes after a $ sign amounted to – but maybe not around Atlanta-based  NanoLumens, which appears to have very gone 4 for 4 in its legal actions this summer with LED display competitors. […]

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Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 9:27 AM

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London Creative Shop Opens Deep Black, OLED-Filled Showroom

This the new showroom of the London creative studio Projection Artworks, which includes several LG OLED displays. There’s nothing all that exciting about companies have showrooms, but I note this because of the smart decision to place the OLEDs on a piano black wall. […]

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Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 8:18 AM

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Digital Signage Awards Entry Deadline is Oct. 31st

A reminder that entries close at the end of the month for the Digital Signage Awards, a global contest that sifts through and singles out the best work across a bunch of varied categories. Sixteen:Nine is media sponsor/partner in the awards, which are organized and managed by a UK company. […]

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Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:58 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Yahav Ran, Synect Media

When I get asked about digital signage installations that I think really have it together, I tend to talk about Microsoft’s retail stores, and more recently, the crazy one by many 100s video wall at the check-in counters at Orlando’s airport. Turns out both projects were pulled together by Synect Media, a Seattle-area agency that is as much an integrator as it is a creative design studio. […]

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Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 12:11 AM

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16:9: UK Firm Touts The Fairest Of All Magic Mirrors

Probably like most people, I tend to think a mirror is a mirror, and more particularly as a digital signage guy, I assumed a mirror display is just a display with any old mirror glass bonded to the face of the LCD. Well, yes and no. Turns out there’s a lot to mirrors. […]

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Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 8:20 AM

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16:9: Whole Facade Of Heathrow Superdry Shop Is LED

I don’t think I’ve seen anything quite like this – a store facade in a shopping mall that is all LED, front and sides. This is the new Superdry shop at London Heathrow terminal 3 – so it’s airport retail. Only information I have is that it opened in July and is “doing well,” reports TR Business. […]

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Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 5:25 PM

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16:9: IKEA’s New Sheffield Store Includes Tidy Digital Menu And Promo System

This is the tidy set of menu displays IKEA has at its food service counter in the newly opened store in Sheffield, UK. The displays were put in by Beaver Group and run that solutions provider’s “signage.ninja” software, which I THINK is a front-end gateway with Scala under the hood. […]

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Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:55 AM

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16:9: LG Plants OLED Palm Tree At Dubai’s GITEX Trade Show

LG is using flexible OLED displays – made into a digital palm tree – as the centerpiece of its stand at the annual GITEX consumer electronics trade show and conference this week in Dubai. The OLEDs are open frame (no rigid borders) so they can flex concave or convex. The company has also been heavily showing at different shows an OLED embedded in a suspended sheet of glass. […]

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Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 8:41 AM

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16:9: NYC Penn Station Adds Intersection Digital Screens On Amtrak Concourse

Seriously busy, seriously dumpy NY Penn Station got a little bit of a digital facelift with the addition of a dozen digital totems in the Amtrak concourse, with the screens providing passenger information, bankrolled by digital OOH ad spots. The station handles a staggering 600,000 passengers a day, so it gets a lot of coveted eyeballs for brand advertisers. […]

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Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 10:41 PM

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ClearChannel Provides Las Vegas LED Board Inventory To Aid FBI Investigation

The Las Vegas office of ClearChannel Outdoor has partnered with the FBI to put material on digital billboards around that city related to the recent shooting massacre. The boards will feature the slogan: “If you know something, say something.” People will be encouraged to call a tip line. […]

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Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 8:55 AM

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New Lloyds Flagship Branch Reimagines High Street Banking In UK

UK-based Lloyds Bank has just opened a new flagship branch in Manchester – full of tech and customer comforts – that’s positioned as a re-imagined approach to high street banking. […]

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Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 3:54 PM

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16:9: Samsung’s Display Roadmap Adds More LED, More UHD, Ends Small And Square Screens

Marco Nalli of Samsung invited a bunch of people in architectural/design/consulting up to the company’s Canadian head office in suburban Toronto on Wednesday for a bit of a lunch and learn, to talk about current digital signage product and the North America product roadmap. […]

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Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 5:18 PM

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16:8: Sharp Starts Shipping Its 70-inch Video Wall-Ready LCDs

We’re at a point with monitors that a 70-inch unit doesn’t even sound all that big anymore, but it’s a bit different when it is a monitor to use as one of many as a video wall. Sharp will start shipping this month a 70-inch display – the PN-V701 – built for 24/7 video walls. […]

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Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 2:58 PM

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16:9: The Right Viewing Distance For LED Displays? There’s A (Free) App For That

Lots of good, helpful comments were provided on the post last week about recommended viewing distances for LED displays – including some mathematical formulas that just put me in rapid eye-blink mode. Way over my head. […]

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Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 11:34 AM

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