The UK-based publication Inavate, which covers the pro AV market in the EMEA regions, has issued the results of a reader survey that suggests few buyers would attend physical industry events for the balkance of this year, but see Q1 of 2021 as the start of a return to normal. […]
With the industry rank and file maybe, possibly starting to gets its collective head wrapped around relatively new terms like OLED, QLED, miniLED and microLED, it’s time to introduce yet more acronyms and differing display technologies that we’ll be talking about and looking at soon enough. […]
I am virtually wandering the exhibit hall of SID Display Week – mentally walking right on past a whole bunch of vendors that sell things like polymer microstructures and light measurement tools. But I am stopping and looking at some of what the display guys are toting this year. […]
I am virtually attending the Society for Information Display’s annual display-nerd festival – DisplayWeek. The live show was done in by COVID-19, but lives on as a virtual show. It is NO replacement for the real deal – having seen that last year in Silicon Valley – but a reasonable alternative, given our collectively crappy circumstances. […]
The organizers of ISE started their push this week to both market the February show and reassure exhibitors and potential attendees that it will be safe. There were several videotaped segments done in Barcelona shown during the Digital Signage Summit held online earlier this week, from a studio space in Hanover, Germany. […]
The big c-store trade show NACS, which was set for mid-October in Las Vegas, is the latest high profile, big dollar casualty of COVID-19. In an interesting development, it was the venue, not the organizer, that did the event in. […]
Getting set to log in and mostly monitor the 2-day Digital Signage Summit, which is normally a live event held each summer in Germany, but is virtual – like just about everything – this time around. I am moderating a panel midday focused on retail re-opening and ops challenges, as well as talking about the state of the DS industry globally. […]
The trade show dominoes keep tumbling, with cancellations now stretching into the new year with words that the mammoth CES show set for Las Vegas in January is now going to be an online-only thing. […]
The National RetaiI Federation in the U.S. has announced it is pushing back the dates for its annual trade show and conference in New York City from mid-January to early June. The retail industry’s largest show, which is heavily focused on tech and attracts numerous vendors from the digital signage ecosystem, will now run June 6-8, 2021. […]
The Digital Signage Summit held each summer in Germany by Munich’s invidis and Integrated Systems Events has been shifted to an online event – set for July 29-30. The decision is, of course, necessitated by the ongoing pandemic. […]
With the virtual version of InfoComm completed, AVIXA and co-owner CEDIA have immediately pivoted to talking about plans for their other big pro AV trade show, Integrated Systems Europe. Its organizer, Integrated Systems Events, pushed out PR overnight saying the 2021 show is most definitely on in early February, and that measures are coming together to ensure it is safe. […]
I spent part of Tuesday poking around the InfoComm Connected site, curious as to how a big AV trade show would look and work when done virtually. My lightning impression is that few people would conclude there’s no need to do the real thing anymore, because a virtual version does all that’s needed for exhibitors and attendees. […]
In a prime example of the phrase “abundance of caution,” the organizers of the computing trade show Computex have cancelled the 2019 show, having already postponed it from this month to fall. The show is in Taipei each year, and is being cancelled to remove any risk of transmission. […]
The display industry nerd-fest known as SID/Display Week has been converted to a virtual event, scheduled for August 3-7. […]
You have likely seen news out of Las Vegas that at least some of the casino resorts are back in operation, and the city is opening up again. That news is at least one box checked in the efforts by the Exponation people to stage a delayed Digital Signage Expo in the city, shifted from early spring to September. The DSE people issued an update Wednesday, saying the show still intends to go on. […]
