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16:9: Alpine Mecca Uses Solar-Powered E-Paper Signs to Guide Visitors

E-paper digital signs have been used outside for real-time transit stop information and local directories, but I can’t recall them being used quite like they are in the scenic Bavarian village of Oberstdorf.  The area is a skiing and hiking mecca, attracting visitors year-round – a lot of them new to the area and filled with questions. […]

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Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 8:00 AM

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Sony, TSItouch Collaborate On Infrared Touchscreens For BRAVIA Displays

Sony and interactive video wall company TSItouch are collaborating on a new solution to add infrared multi-touch technology to 55-, 56-, and 75-inch models of Sony’s BRAVIA professional displays. […]

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Tue, May 25, 2021 at 2:56 PM

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16:9: Sony Adds IR Touch to 4K Pro Displays Via TSItouch Collaboration

Sony’s 4K HDR commercial displays are now touch-ready, via a technology collaboration that puts TSItouch‘s infrared (IR) multi-touch on the 55, 65 and 75-inch models of Sony’s BRAVIA – the BZ40H series of pro displays. […]

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Tue, May 25, 2021 at 11:00 AM

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16:9: Smoothie King Franchisees Shifting From Analog Posters to Digital Menu Displays

Here’s a real-world example of why QSR restaurant franchise owners would make what can be substantial capital investments to convert from analog to digital menus at their stores. Operators of Smoothie King franchises in several U.S. states have been converting menu displays inside and outside to digital to speed turnarounds on changes and have a degree of local control. […]

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Tue, May 25, 2021 at 10:30 AM

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16:9: 2020 NBA Title Ring Virtualized and Sold as Crypto Token, Based on PORTL’s Transparent LCD

I’m putting out there, immediately, that I understand maybe half of the following, as it has something or other to do with crypto-currencies and memorabilia. The LA start-up PORTL, which does a very clever of making transparent LCD look like three-dimensional hologram displays, has announced it has created the “world’s first volumetric pro sports memorabilia non-fungible token, or NFT. […]

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Mon, May 24, 2021 at 10:00 AM

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16:9: Amscreen Expanding Display Business Across Atlantic To Americas Markets

If you have been around the industry forever, like me, you may recall many years ago an early UK media network in chain retail stores that was based around a small-ish LCD on a counter-mounted pole or wall, with a low-rez LED ticker above it. […]

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Sun, May 23, 2021 at 9:40 AM

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16:9: South African Retailer Kits Out Flagship With More Than 65 Smart Screens

This is a flagship store of Edgars, a department store chain in South Africa, which was upgraded with more than 65 digital signage screens around the retail footprint. The main feature is an array of sync’d LCD screens by the escalators. […]

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Fri, May 21, 2021 at 8:17 AM

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Wicket Software Gets Patent For AI-driven Access Controls To Venues

I assume or at least hope that software companies who develop access control systems that mash up computer vision, sensors and screens – for retail and other kinds of venues – will have had a look over the patents out there before getting too deep into product development. […]

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Thu, May 20, 2021 at 10:49 AM

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Display Week: Start-up Brelyon Shows Perceived 122-Inch Viewing Canvas On 32-Inch Screen

In my virtual wander along the exhibitor aisles of SID Display Week, I am looking for display tech that is either a big advance on what’s already out there, or very different. I came across a Silicon Valley start-up called Brelyon that has an immersive display that delivers an immersive virtual reality experience, without the goofy-looking, uncomfortable headset. […]

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Wed, May 19, 2021 at 11:51 AM

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Google’s Project Starline Touts Hologram-ish, 3D Video Calling

Google had its annual I/O conference yesterday, and among the new pots and pans the tech giant said it was working on was something called Project Starline – a very involved, more lifelike take on video calling. […]

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Wed, May 19, 2021 at 8:43 AM

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16:9: Seoul Starbucks Reserve Drives Experience with Ambient, Data-Triggered LED Feature Wall

This is a Starbucks Reserve location in Seoul, in the same office tower as the coffee company’s Korean headquarters. It has a 2.5mm LED video wall on an arched feature wall. The video shows it running an animated watercolor depicting a coffee planation. […]

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Wed, May 19, 2021 at 7:30 AM

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Melitron, Axis and ICON Partner On COVID-Driven People Count Kiosk for Retail

I don’t get out much lately, so maybe the retail world is overrun with COVID-19 access control technologies and I’d see them if I traveled. But I don’t think so. I get carpet-bombed daily with emails about digital deployments of some kind or another, and I just have not seen much material that suggests widespread adoption. […]

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Tue, May 18, 2021 at 3:03 PM

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16:9: Hamburg Pop-Up Bike Store Uses LCD Video Wall to Drive Specialized Brand

LED gets all the attention for video walls these days, but there are still retail projects going in that take advantage of the lower cost and resolution of narrow bezel LCD displays. This is a pop-up store in Hamburg, Germany, run by Concept Cycles but built for the premium partner brand Specialized. The 300 sq. […]

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Tue, May 18, 2021 at 12:00 PM

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16:9: Display Week: DSCC’s Analysis Suggest MicroLED a Niche Product; Manufacturing Challenges Remain

MicroLED has received a ton of buzz in digital signage circles the last 2-3 years because of the proposition of building big seamless video walls that look as good as LCD or OLED. The big barrier to widespread adoption has been cost – driven in part by a need to make production more efficient and speedy, while also minimizing production flaws. […]

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Tue, May 18, 2021 at 10:45 AM

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16:9: Display Week: Sun Vision Display Touts Outdoor LCD Display With Up to 95% Less Energy Usage

This a demo video from the SID Display Week virtual stand for an Illinois company called Sun Vision Display, which is showing an outdoor-rated LCD display that uses reflective LCD technology. The company uses reflective LCD technology to work WITH bright sunlight, instead of cranking up the brightness on a conventional LED backlight array to overpower sunlight’s glare. […]

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Tue, May 18, 2021 at 10:30 AM

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