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16:9 Projects Podcast: Intersection’s CSO On The Massive LinkNYC Smart City Rollout

This episode we’re speaking with Dave Etherington, who is CSO of Intersection, one of the companies responsible for LinkNYC. In 2014, New York City set out to overhaul their payphone infrastructure. The result is LinkNYC, which provides anyone in the city with free phone calls to anywhere in the U.S., free wifi, local information and some other things that Dave and I discuss. […]

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Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 7:57 AM

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Projects: UK Theatre Lights Up Big Stretched Displays At Entryway

Here’s an example of how those stretched 86-inch LG LCD panels are being used away from trade show booths and in the real world – a pair of them gracing the entryway to a refurbished theatre in Dorset, England. The screens are running custom promotional content for the theatre, including advertising for productions, vendors and show times information. Sara St. […]

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Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 8:33 AM

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16:9: Startup Shows E-paper That’s Color And Video-Capable

Display nerds at last week’s annual Society for Information Display’s annual DisplayWeek, this year in LA, saw among other things e-paper technology that was both color AND video capable. Tech developed by Silicon Valley start-up CLEARink, based on R&D that came out of the University of British Columbia, was among the Best In Show winners at the event. […]

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Mon, May 29, 2017 at 9:12 AM

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Shanghai Digital Signage Show This Fall Expecting 70K-Plus Attendees

What looks to be an all-encompassing digital signage show for the China market has been announced for Shanghai Sept. 20-22 – with events focused on digital signage, LED, OLED and signs all ganged together at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. […]

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Fri, May 26, 2017 at 8:52 AM

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Projects: Check Out This Nice 2 By 5 Elevator Lobby Video Wall at Westgate Las Vegas

The Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, what you may know as the old Las Vegas Hilton right next to the convention center, has put some serious money into sprucing the place up, including the digital displays. There are more than 150 digital signage displays on the property, including custom LED screens, 4K video walls, HD displays, and projections. […]

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Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:26 AM

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16:9: Digital signage ecosystem seeing double-digit growth: IHS Markit

The latest Digital Signage & Professional Displays Market Analysis from IHS Markit – which the company makes available to Digital Signage Federation members – has a bunch of interesting nuggets of information. […]

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Wed, May 24, 2017 at 11:44 PM

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Projects: Mall’s Center Court Tree Gets LCD Display Ornaments

Not really sure what I think of this … Certainly gets points for being different. But a bunch of LCDs dangling like Christmas ornaments around a living ficus tree in the middle of a mall, I dunno … This is the set-up, launched I think in 2014, at the Louis Joliet Mall in way suburban Chicago. […]

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Tue, May 23, 2017 at 10:34 AM

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Projects: This Sliding, Morphing LED-LCD Wall Takes Closer Looks At Human Brain

This is very impressive – a 20-foot tall direct view LED wall sync’d with seven 72-inch LCD monitors that crawl up and down the wall on side-by-side tracks, showing information about the human brain and the scientists pushing the boundaries of neuroscience research. […]

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Tue, May 23, 2017 at 9:05 AM

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16:9: How About A Cord-Free Digital Sign That Will Run A Year Between Charges?

  Slovenia’s Visionect has started marketing a 13-inch E Ink display that will run for as long as a year before needing its battery recharged. Called the Onethree – presumably based on the 13-inch size – the unit is touted as a Place and Play device that can go where it needs to go, and draw for a year about as much energy as it takes to brew one cup of coffee. […]

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Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:43 PM

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16:9: CIVIQ’s Gleeson On Progress Of LinkNYC Smart City Efforts

Here is the first of a two-part Q&A session with digital signage veteran Brad Gleeson, now the Chief Commercial Officer at CIVIQ, on that company’s smart cities efforts in New York and beyond. The completed Q&A was provided to 16:9 by a Samsung agency, but they’re the sorts of questions I’d ask. […]

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Thu, May 11, 2017 at 12:41 AM

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Projects: AR Brings Marine Life To Ljubljana’s Sidewalks Via DOOH Campaign

Here’s a nice use of augmented reality on digital OOH transit shelter screens in Slovenia’s capital city, Ljubljana. Not a new idea, but a good take on the concept. Think this is for a communications company. […]

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Tue, May 9, 2017 at 10:46 AM

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Projects: Curved Video Wall Brings Cathedral’s Famed Frescoes Down To Eye-Level In Italy

The museum curator language of this case study is damn near impenetrable, but if you hang in there, you learn that a big, curved video wall is being used in a cathedral in Piacenza, Italy to celebrate the work of a baroque artist known as Guercino. […]

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Fri, May 5, 2017 at 9:07 AM

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Projects: Digital Signage A Big Part Of London Whitechapel Diner’s Facelift

My first reaction to a “£500,000 interior design investment” in a London dessert diner, based on the supplied photos, is wondering why they couldn’t have a put just a little of that big budget into level tables. The poor woman’s food might slide right off if she doesn’t keep a fork firmly in place. […]

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Thu, May 4, 2017 at 8:27 AM

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16:9: U.S.-based LED board-makers defend their turf against Asian competitors

This is the second move in recent weeks by U.S.-based LED board-makers against their (typically) lower cost Asian competitors. Atlanta-based NanoLumens recently issued a press statement about the software security risks of buying Chinese-made LED boards. […]

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Tue, May 2, 2017 at 6:34 PM

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Projects: Paris Hotel’s Interactive Wall Inspired By The City

This looks very nice – an experiential video wall in a luxury boutique hotel in Paris that’s ambient, reactive and highly functional when needed. The Sofitel Paris Baltimore Tour Eiffel worked with Montreal tech agency Float4 on a multi-touch digital welcome wall on the street level designed to help tourist guests connect with the city. […]

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Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 7:06 AM

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