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Digital Convergence, Interactivity And Personalization Key To Digital Signage’s Future

Guest Post: Cornelia Henkel, Advanced Digital Solutions Cornelia Henkel The ongoing digital convergence of digital signage, IT, consumer electronics, telecommunications and the media industry will pose major challenges on system integration issues, but also promise to augment viewer experiences to a completely new stage. […]

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Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 10:16 AM

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Visionect’s Epaper Digital Door Signs Win Red Dot Industrial Design Award

The little E Ink meeting room signs marketed by Slovenia’s Visionect are among the winners of a big industrial design award competition, called Red Dot. Visionect’s Joan Meeting Room Assistant won in the Product Design category of the awards. […]

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Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:00 AM

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Projects: 95-Inch Displays Part Of Experience At Samsung Showcase Store

Photography by Brandon Barre This is the new Samsung store at Toronto’s Sherway Gardens shopping centre, which has displays sprinkled through the store, including a big 95-inch panel embedded in an entry side wall, and another at the back. The design was done by Vancouver-based design group Cutler, and there are more pix here on Retail Design Blog. […]

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Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 8:57 AM

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Projects: Cafetiero Frames Up Its Digital Menus

This is the digital menuboard set-up for a small German cafe chain called CAFETIERO, which is run by the exhibitions and event catering firm The Stockheim Group. The company uses 40-inch displays for menus, and nicely surrounds them in decorative picture frames. […]

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Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 8:32 AM

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16:9 Podcasts: Jennifer Davis, Leyard

In this episode, I’m speaking with Jennifer Davis, who is Chief Marketing Officer for Leyard and also the VP of Marketing and Product Strategy for Planar, which is now owned by Leyard. So she’s one busy puppy these days. […]

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Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 12:02 AM

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16:9 Podcasts: Rick Cope, NanoLumens

In this episode, I’m speaking with Rick Cope, the founder and CEO of NanoLumens, which makes and markets its own line of unique indoor and outdoor LED displays from its facilities in Atlanta. […]

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Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:05 AM

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Projects: BMO Lights Up Twin Video Walls In Toronto’s PATH System

This is a pair of 3 by 5 video walls, using 55-inch narrow bezel displays, in the underground PATH concourse system/maze that connects most of the big office towers in downtown Toronto. Done for BMO Financial Group, the wall is in the walkway system at BMO’s flagship location, First Canadian Place. […]

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Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:09 AM

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Projects: LED Staircase Leads Way Into New Vegas Nightclub

I’m not quite sure how a company based in Ottawa, Ontario got a nightclub deal in Las Vegas, Nevada, but UTG Digital Media from Canada’s capital has installed a slick LED staircase at the new JEWEL Nightclub at the Aria casino-hotel. The club opened last night and is managed by the hospitality company Hakkasan Group, which also has other clubs around the strip. […]

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Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 12:52 PM

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16:9: NanoLumens’ AWARE Adds CMS, Android Media Player To Indoor LED Display Offer

The lines between hardware and software makers in digital signage continue to blur, with news that Atlanta-based LED display manufacturer NanoLumens now has a content management and remote management software suite, and a dedicated Android media player that will ship with its new displays. […]

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Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 11:38 AM

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Research Group Suggests Digital Signage To Create 70,000 New Jobs In Korea

The Korea Economic Research Institute, a state-run research organization, says the digital signage market will create around 70,000 jobs by the year 2020. I assume these jobs will be in South Korea (not globally), and I’ve no idea how the group got to that big number. The KERI report also suggests the digital signage business will generate $8.7 billion worth of production. […]

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Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 9:19 AM

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16:9: InfoComm 2016 Roundup: Any Surface Is A Canvas

InfoComm 2016 in Las Vegas left systems integrators and visual designers with a vast menu of possibilities for turning just about any surface into a digital canvas. […]

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Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 2:10 PM

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16:9: Samsung Just Bought A Rich Media Ad Serving Company

Samsung Electronics now owns Montreal-based AdGear Technologies, Inc, a software company that has a rich media ad buying, targeting and serving suite that works across all kinds of screens. […]

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Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 2:07 PM

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Projects: Lithuania’s Teo Networks Its Instore Marketing Efforts

Lithuania’s leading telco and home entertainment services provider Teo has kitted out stores with single displays and clusters in push to enhance customer services. The set-up is running in shopping malls in that country’s three largest cities, with the tech put in by solutions provider Hansab, running Signagelive on Samsung displays. […]

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Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 7:49 AM

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16:9: InfoComm 2016: Day 2 Impressions

The more I walked and talked here at InfoComm, the more I was drawing conclusions around what digital signage displays look like in the next five years. First, many or most of the the single displays are going to ship with embedded intelligence on them. Whatever you think of System on Chip displays, pretty much all the major manufacturers are into it, save NEC and Sharp. […]

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Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:25 AM

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16:9: InfoComm 16: Day One Impressions

As warned, there are indoor LED displays everywhere at this year’s edition of the big InfoComm systems integrator-pro AV nerdfest in Las Vegas. There are two massive halls for this show, and LED companies are all over the footprint of both of them. There is by no means just an area designated for them. […]

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Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:40 AM

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