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California Cannabis Dispensary Looks to Digital Signage for Wow Factor (Commercial Integrator)

My time as a professional journalist has given me the opportunity to cover some very cool and historic stories, including some of the first recreational marijuana sales on the East Coast. What struck me inside those stores was the immense amount of technology, like digital signage, self-service kiosks, professional sound systems, access management, security cameras and more. […]

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Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 11:30 AM

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16:9: PORTL Puts Swiss Timepiece Execs At Shanghai Trade Show, Without Leaving Alps

I’m a big fan of what PORTL is doing with its remote display system, for use-cases like new luxury watch launches and demos done by a Swiss firm for a recent trade show many time zones away in Shanghai. The timepiece firm IWC used PORTL’s display and software system to have its CEO and rock star watchmaker present and interact with buyers in real-time at a show called Watches and Wonders. […]

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Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 12:30 PM

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Los Angeles Dodgers Add Video Screens to World Series Championship Ring Boxes (Commercial Integrator)

Digital signage doesn’t have to be extra-large or immersive to make a huge impact. Just ask the players from the 2020 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers, who found the boxes containing their championship rings taken to a whole new level with mini video screens inside when they opened them. […]

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Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:00 AM

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Smartboard Helps to INSPIRE Autistic Students to Achieve More Success in the Classroom

The INSPIRE campus (The Integrated School Program for Independence, Relationships and Entrepreneurship) is spread out over 165 wooded acres outside of Brattleboro, Vt. INSPIRE has been giving new hope to children and young adults with autism for more than 14 years. […]

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Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:53 AM

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Huge 50 Meter-Wide LED Video Wall Used As Changeable Set By Chinese State Broadcaster

This is a huge LED video wall – 50 meters by 10 meters tall – being used for an ever-changeable broadcast set by a Chinese state broadcaster. The curved wall was put up to help run a two-hour live TV event recently, called CCTV Consumer Rights Day Gala. I will leave it to other, more suitable forums to comment on China and galas about rights. […]

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Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:42 AM

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16:9: LED Pulse Turns Suspended Light Strings Into Low-Res Three-Dimensional Motion Display

Hat Tip – Sound and Video Contractor A Hong Kong company has started showing a display system that uses suspended LED strings – with each light emitter mapped and addressable – to create motion visuals that have volume and dimension. The system from LED Pulse is called Dragon O. It can be scaled up to fill a room or stage. […]

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Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:18 AM

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16:9: Growth Expected in Bundled, All-in-One DV LED Displays, Says Report From Omdia

There is now enough activity and demand in the area of all-in-one, bundled LED displays to warrant marketplace research and analysis, with a new report from the global research firm Omdia looking specifically at this narrowly-defined product category. […]

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Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 1:15 PM

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16:9: On the Executive Summary of IDtechEx’s Deep-Dive on MicroLED

The UK-based research firm and consultancy IDtechEx has pushed out an interesting discussion paper about the state and potential marketplace applications for microLED, sorting out its value proposition versus competing technologies like OLED and Quantum Dots LCDs. […]

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Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 10:30 AM

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AUO Latest Display Giant To Add MicroLED To Product Portfolio; Showing Demos At TouchTaiwan

I wrote earlier today about Touch Taiwan going ahead as a live trade show next week, aimed at a domestic crowd and in an island country that is seeing just a handful of new COVID cases day to day. An industry friend sent along a show promo video from AUO – a Taiwan company that is one of the largest flat panel manufacturers in the world. […]

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Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 1:02 PM

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Nudge: Looking For More Responses To Workplace Digital Signage Survey (Takes Minutes!)

I am looking for more responses to the workplace digital signage survey I pushed out earlier in the week, which is gathering insights about how the tech fits in workplaces that are, or will soon be, repopulating. The survey is just a Google form and you should be able to bomb through it in a matter of minutes. You can be quoted, if you wish, or submit your thoughts anonymously. […]

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Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 8:37 AM

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16:9: How the New All-Digital Taco Bell in Times Square Works

Taco Bell opened its first digital-only restaurant in the U.S. yesterday, a New York’s Times Square “Cantina” store that has no order counter or menu boards. The only way to order is ahead of time online or by mobile, or in-store using one of 10 self-order kiosks. […]

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Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:00 AM

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Digital Signage Offers New Solutions for a New Era

For much of its life, digital signage was reserved for corporate lobbies and retail stores at your favorite shopping malls. These days, though, digital signage has become ubiquitous across just about all vertical markets, especially as the need to deliver health-related information quickly has increased. […]

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Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 4:43 PM

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How PPDS Bundles Their Display Products to Benefit Integrators

Joseph King of PPDS joins us for another episode of CI 3 Questions — this time, to tell us what is unique about their digital display offerings. CI: PPDS provides ancillary benefits such as bundling solutions, trusted partners, etc. How does this fit into benefiting customers in ways competitors might not be able to? […]

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Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 11:09 AM

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The Global Semiconductor Shortage Could Begin Impacting Pro AV (Commercial Integrator)

In February, as the media began reporting on the global semiconductor shortage, I posed this question in a Commercial Integrator blog: Could the global chip shortage impact pro AV? For a few months, it seemed like the global shortage was generally impacting automakers and other consumer electronics industries like gaming. […]

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Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 3:30 PM

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New CDC Data Suggests Touch Panels, Screens Aren’t Big Infection Vectors (Commercial Integrator)

New guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control suggests that the risk of becoming infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 through touching objects is generally low, which means touchscreens, touch panels and other hands-on AV technology is generally safe to use – provided surfaces and hands are routinely cleaned. […]

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Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 4:22 PM

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