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16:9: City Of Toronto Weighs Media Partnership To Juice Up Major Square With Yet More LED

Via Urban Toronto The city of Toronto is going down the interesting path of being a major media partner in the city’s busiest public gathering point – Yonge-Dundas Square. A proposed $3.8-million deal for Outfront Media to put in a series of large format LED screens in the square has cleared the city mayor’s executive committee, but is still subject to more review. […]

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Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 7:15 AM

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Houston Museum Switches On 90-Foot Ticket Counter Video Wall

The Houston Museum of Natural Science has a newly renovated box office area topped by a 90-foot wide L-shaped video wall that uses 63 55-inch narrow bezel displays. The displays are divided into seven groups of nine each, running off controllers by group, and the whole wall can be taken over by one high-rez visual, as needed. […]

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Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 9:10 AM

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16:9: Pivoting, Interactive Digital Street Signs Now For Sale In Europe

I saw this thing in Amsterdam at ISE 2016, and the French company couldn’t give me much in the way of detail on how much or where it would be available – other than North American NOT being a planned marketplace. A year on, France’s Charvet Digital Media appears to have refined its digital street sign to a point that it is now for sale. […]

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Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 8:44 AM

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16:9: NRF2017 Impressions: Lotsa Actionable Analytics

NRF is not a digital signage show. There are lots of signage vendors at the show – with booths or just walking around. It’s a retail tech show full of stuff that will be largely unfamiliar if you live and work in the digital signage bubble. […]

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Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 1:43 PM

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16:9: Planar The Latest Displayco To Add “Smart” Displays

Beaverton, Oregon-based Planar has started marketing a 4K pro display series that includes an embedded, networked Android media player capable of driving  4K resolutions and ready for h.265 video and HTML5. […]

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Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:44 PM

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16:9: Start-up Wants To Replace Stamped Metal License Plates With Smart Digital Displays

A San Francisco-based company is showing an interactive digital license plate debuts today at the North American International Auto Show, which opened this week in Detroit. The rPlate is touted as the first upgrade in 125 years on license plates – a multi-functional display that can do things like DMV registration automation, hyper-local messaging, telematics and vehicle management. […]

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Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 9:53 AM

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Panasonic, IBM Team On Watson-Driven Smart Mirror For Hotels

Panasonic and IBM were showing a smart mirror/digital concierge last week during CES, at an offsite demo area run by IBM. The Panasonic Digital Concierge uses the IBM Watson artificial intelligence platform as part of a digital envisioned as being installed in the rooms of, let’s assume, higher-end hotels. […]

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Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 10:53 AM

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16:9: Is This The Most Digital Signage-Rich Store In Canada?

There’s always some other place with more, but in my travels, I’ve just come back from the most digital signage-rich store I’ve seen to date. The Best Buy at Heartland Town Centre in Mississauga, a city part of the greater Toronto metropolis, has screens everywhere. I wouldn’t say it was incredibly well done. […]

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Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 5:37 PM

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16:9: LG Showing Wallpaper OLEDs And Stacked OLED Columns At CES

LG Display is evidently pushing all in on OLED displays this year, announcing a series of new displays that will be showing at CES this week and almost certainly at ISE in Amsterdam in a month. LG Display will show off paper-thin 65-inch and 77-inch UHD OLED displays for TVs that can be attached to the wall pretty much like wallpaper, though I’d recommend against using glue. […]

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Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 9:38 AM

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16:9: Projects: Taipei’s Bus Stops Get Smart

Much of the buzz about smart city initiatives involving public displays has been around ambitious and expensive standalone info-stations like the 600 or so now operating in New York City, but there’s also stuff that’s quite a bit more pedestrian and easily integrated with existing structures. […]

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Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 8:32 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Rich Ventura, NEC Display Solutions

Rich Ventura now has the launch codes and the secret handshake instructions to act as the 2017 chairman of the Digital Signage Federation. He’s been active in the organization for several years, and has big plans for the year ahead. […]

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Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 12:10 AM

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If Godzilla Was Into Reading, This Would Be His Kindle

E Ink will be showing a 42-inch active matrix e-paper display this week at CES in Las Vegas. Think of it like a Kindle for Godzilla. The new display, 10-inches larger than the previous jumbo e-paper display (32″) is part of the E Ink Pearl product line for the company. […]

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Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:41 PM

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Distribution For Digital Signage Explained

Guest Post: Joel Dart, Ingram Micro When I say Distribution, I’ll often get a somewhat blank stare. Joel Dart So what is it? Distribution offers a complete solution for a signage network, including key areas like inventory warehousing, supply chain coordination, configuration of a technical solution, financing, installation and training. […]

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Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 1:02 PM

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Year In Review: 16:9’s Top Posts For 2016

This year is pretty much done and dusted, so let’s take a look at what stories on 16:9 generated the most traffic in 2016. You’ll immediately notice a couple of trends. First, people like numbered lists. […]

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Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 1:09 PM

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16:9: And Now There Are Glasses-Free 3D Video Walls …

Hong Kong-based Marvel Digital Limited will be at CES next week showing off a video wall that blends ultra narrow bezel displays with glasses-free 3D. Putting nine panels in a 3 by 3 set-up will result in a 138-inch diagonal digital canvas, which the company will have at booth 30264, South Hall 3, at the Las Vegas Convention Centre. […]

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Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 8:39 AM

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