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16:9: How Will Customer Engagement Technologies Work When Touching Screens Is Intimidating?

16:9 is working with the AV trade association AVIXA, and Munich-based consulting/publishing firm invidis on a virtual roundtable next week focused on the touchy issue (sorry for the pun, but … ) of asking consumers to use touch screens when they’ve spent weeks and months being warned to stay the heck away from anyone and anything. […]

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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 1:44 PM

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16:9: COVID-19 Will Change How Many Offices Work; Here’s How Digital Display Tech Plugs In

One of the very few positives of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a wholesale shift, albeit temporarily, from formal offices to work from home arrangements. While many people will eventually return to their offices and see their co-workers once again, and all the cars on their commute, it is very likely a lot of people will stay employed, but also quite happily stay at home. […]

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Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 7:29 AM

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16:9: SID Pushes Display Week Off Two Months To August; Moves Down I-280 To San Jose

The Society for Information Display (SID) has rescheduled its annual Display Week from June to August, and shifted the symposium, seminar and trade show from downtown San Francisco to the San Jose Convention Center, where it was run in 2019. The revised schedule is Aug. 2-7. […]

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Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 7:05 PM

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16:9: How Touchscreen Usage Will Change In A (Post) Confinement World – Part Two

Guest Post: Geoffrey Bessin, Intuiface Geoff Bessin In Part One of this series, we took a look at the steps creative agencies and systems integrators need to take to ensure the longevity and appeal of touch-first digital deployments to physical spaces. […]

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Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 9:21 AM

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How Touchscreen Usage Will Change In A (Post) Confinement World – Part One

Guest Post: Geoffrey Bessin, Intuiface Geoff Bessin It’s easy to throw around phrases like “once-in-a-generation” or “once-in-a-lifetime,” but our experience with the Coronavirus outbreak may just merit the comparison. Post-pandemic, life will be irrevocably changed; the question is only by how much. Have handshakes with colleagues and cheek-kisses with friends seen their last days? […]

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Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 7:01 PM

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SNA Displays Launches Free DIY Tool That Helps Visualize LED Projects At Ideation Stage

The direct view LED firm SNA Displays has launched a visualization tool that allows anyone from an integrator to architect to virtually design display projects in a variety of standard and custom environments. The new online, interactive tool was, understandably, built for SNA Displays’ prospective clients and its partner network, but is also available for anyone to use. […]

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Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:06 AM

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16:9: How A Touch Manufacturer Is Making Screen Use Safe, When Interactive Has Grown Scary

As you might expect, there is a fair amount of trepidation out there about using touchscreens these days, and it presents a challenge for digital signage and interactive tech vendors like TSItouch. I asked Gary Mundrake, the Pennsylvania company’s president, for TSItouch’s perspective on having a customer engagement solution that people, right or wrong, may be scared to engage. […]

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Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 2:21 PM

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Telecine Launches Animated Video Learning Series – Called Digitalsignage.tips

The team at Montreal digital signage solutions company Telecine does a lot of serious work for some big name business clients, but it is a lot more playful when it comes to its own marketing. For many years, James Fine and his team have put together loopy Christmas videos that it then shares out to its clients and the ecosystem. My fave remains the Pantenna. […]

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Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 12:03 PM

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16:9: Finally, A Rolling, Robotic Digital Poster On Wheels!

In just about every speaking gig I do, I work in the importance of strategy, and encourage both sellers and buyers to ask a big, simple question: Why? I don’t have a solid answer to why for this loopy thing: a four-screen robotic ad machine that in theory would slowly roll along the concourses of shopping malls, airports and convention centers. […]

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Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 12:10 AM

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16:9: Sports Venues, Casinos Are Using Shutdowns To Do Display Upgrades

The sports and entertainment venues publication VenuesNow has an interesting piece up about how some stadiums, arenas and casinos are using shutdowns brought on by the pandemic to upgrade their visual display systems. The piece focused on Daktronics, which is among the biggest suppliers of direct view LED displays for those kids of spaces. […]

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Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 6:50 PM

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Mimo Debuts Its First Outdoor-Ready Touch Display

There are many options out there for large daylight-ready displays in totems and kiosks, but I’ve not seen much outside of the stuff sold on Alibaba that comes in much smaller sizes and would be supported on the east side of the Pacific Ocean. […]

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Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 3:17 PM

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16:9: Two Touchless Solutions For Times When Interactive Is A Little Scary

There have been many times when I have had demos done for me of vendor solutions that involved people using their smartphones to do something more easily done on a general-use touchscreen. I’d politely say what they’d developed was interesting, but then ask why consumers/patients/whoever wouldn’t just boink away on a touchscreen to get what they needed. […]

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Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 8:03 AM

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When Your Bedroom Becomes Your Office, And You’re In A Meeting

With many millions of people working from home, most rather abruptly, they are confronting challenges like finding room to work, and somehow chasing off the kids who are also at home, and will barge in at the worst moments. […]

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Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 1:08 PM

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16:9: Hypersign Launches New All-In Digital Signage As A Service, Or DSaas

Spartanburg, SC’s Hypersign has read its market and put together a business bundle it calls DSaas, which is short for Digital Signage as a service. The bundled program, which seems to be coming up more and more in digital signage (see Planar from Wednesday for another variation on this), allows end-users to put everything they need into a budget-friendly OpEx monthly payment. […]

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Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:29 AM

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16:9: STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel On The Digital Signage Industry’s State And Prospects In Pandemic Times

These are some of the oddest, craziest, scariest moments many of us have ever experienced. If you’re sick, you’ll hopefully recover quickly. But the global economy is now very much under the weather, so to speak, and it is not at all clear when it will get better. […]

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Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 11:53 PM

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