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16:9: Next DSF Webinar Focused On The Boring Stuff That Really Matters

A lot of webinars I see promoted in this industry don’t seem to stray much off a common set of themes – the why XX is important or how to do YY stuff. So it’s interesting to see the Digital Signage Federation promoting a Nov. 16 “Hangout” panel discussion about Accelerated Environmental Life Testing for Digital Kiosks and Displays. […]

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Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 9:03 AM

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16:9: France’s Telelogos Puts CMS App On Philips’ Android Smart Displays

  The French digital signage CMS firm Telelogos has joined the relatively small but building list of companies that have developed solutions for Philips’ new D-Line series of system on chip smart displays, which run on Android. The Media4Display software integration with the all-in-one display series is done using an app, available from Telelogos  or at www.professionaldisplayapps.com. […]

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Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 9:26 AM

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E Ink Displays And RFID Cards Guide, Educate Visitors At Estonian National Museum

The Estonian National Museum is using a clever mix of electronic ink displays and RFID to allow visitors to learn about Estonian culture in their preferred language. The museum has put in more than 600 E Ink displays  – from Kindle-sized up to 32-inch units – to use for visitor information. Each display application interacts with RFID tickets, which are provided to visitors. […]

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Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 2:14 PM

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Samsung Launches Online Information Portal For Pro Displays

If you do product research, planning or consulting in digital signage, you will know it can be a bit of a struggle to poke around the Web to find all the information needed for things like displays. There are B2C sites and B2B sites, and sometimes neither have what you need. […]

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Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 9:28 AM

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16:9: SoftwareCo RMG Adds LED Display Side To Business

There are lots of digital signage display companies with software solutions, but it’s pretty rare to read about a signage CMS company touting a display solution. That, however, is what RMG Networks has announced. […]

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Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 8:58 AM

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Projects: New DC Bloomberg Offices Greet Visitors With Dynamic Visuals

Here’s a nice example of how to present real-time data in a visually interesting way. This is the elevator lobby of financial news giant Bloomberg’s new Washington, DC offices – the entrance flanked by a pair of video walls. The office is a hub for about 250 staff in the US capitol. […]

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Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 7:55 AM

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Freshwater Digital Packages $125 Monthly For Turnkey Digital Signage Solution

The digital signage business seems to inexorably going turnkey – with most vendors I chat with saying that’s the ask and end-users saying that’s how they want to see things play out. On a broad scale, that means integrators and the largest software firms are offering a full range of capabilities in-house or through sponsorships. […]

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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:13 AM

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Projects: National WWII Museum Issues Digital Dog Tags

I was in New Orleans for a few days last week, and felt lucky to have the time to tour the National World War Two Museum that has become a huge attraction in that city. It has been around for a few years , and recently added some new digital wrinkles I thought were worth sharing. […]

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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 9:42 AM

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Samsung Starts Shipping New P Series Of Tizen-powered Smart Displays

Samsung has launched a new P-Series line of smart signage displays that are the first shipping with the Tizen operating system – the OS the company is shifting most or all of its information devices over to. The series has seven models, including 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays with 700 nits, 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays with 500 nits and a 32-inch display with 400 nits. […]

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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 8:52 AM

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16:9: NEC Makes Its Displays Smart Using Raspberry Pi

NEC Display Solutions will start marketing and shipping commercial display panels early next year that that have low-cost Raspberry Pi computer modules in them, effectively making them a new variation on smart digital signage displays. This is a notable shift for NEC, which has stayed out of the embedded system on chip display business that Samsung, LG, Panasonic and Philips have all jumped on. […]

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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 8:24 AM

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16:9: NanoLumens Adds Super Fine Pitch, Front-Serviceable LED Display To Lineup

Atlanta-based NanoLumens made its name with lightweight, flexible indoor LED displays, but like other display manufacturers has in the past two years gone hard after the fine pixel pitch LED market. It’s hard to win on price against a sea of Chinese manufacturers, so Nano is marketing based on slightly more esoteric attributes like performance, serviceability and footprint. […]

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Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 6:22 AM

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Digital Trends Showcase Touts Possibilities For Sensor-Driven Video Walls

Andy McRae of Dot2Dot explaining the sensor-driven video wall. I’ve been aware of the Digital Trends Showcase that’s been running for a few years now in Toronto, but schedules have never allowed me to go see what it was all about. […]

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Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 11:23 PM

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16:9: Here’s A Shot Of That Almost-Endless Video Wall At Orlando Airport

I wrote yesterday about the 1,500+ foot, one by very many video wall put in at Orlando’s airport, behind the airline counters/ This a pic from one of the vendors as it was going up. Won’t say who just in case that violates some PR agreement. In two words: very nice. […]

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Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 5:31 PM

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AT&T’s New San Francisco Flagship Includes Giant “Fluid Art” Digital Bulkhead

Photo source: Fast Company AT&T is opening a new tech-centric flagship store today in one of San Francisco’s most historic buildings, filling it with lots of digital bells and whistles, including a sweeping bulkhead LED video wall. The new store, at 1 Powell Street, is next to the popular trolley cable car turnaround area. […]

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Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:35 AM

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16:9: Orlando Airport Is Installing 1,561-foot Continuous Video Wall At Airline Counters

My June 2015 photo of trial at MCO. NOT what is being put in now. PR on new job did not include photos, which is breathtakingly dumb. […]

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Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 8:45 AM

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