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16:9: Sharp NEC Launch New Display Series Supporting Slot-Loaded External PCs

The recently blended entity Sharp NEC Display Solutions has released a new series of digital signage displays that support external, slot-loaded computing modules. The new ME Series accept versions of Intel’s Smart Display Module Small or Large reference designs for mini-PCs that slide into a PCIe slot, and also the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. […]

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Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 8:20 AM

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16:9: Agenda for the D=SIGN Digital Signage Conference Organized by AVIXA and DSF for Dec. 8-9

The agenda has been built out for D=SIGN, the two-day online conference being organized by AVIXA and the Digital Signage Federation for Dec. 8-9. It has a pile of my fellow DSF board members, as well as general members and other industry folks – all subject matter experts in one or numerous aspects of the business. […]

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Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 6:46 PM

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16:9: That’s TSItouch Tech Getting Worked In Election Return Analyses

If you are in the U.S. or Canada – or further afield – spending an inordinate amount of time watching TV analysts explain the nuances of election returns in rural counties, you are seeing a lot of touchscreens being worked to the point of smoking. […]

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Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 8:41 AM

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16:9: Westbury’s AV Tech To Be Auctioned Online Nov. 17-19

Digital signage and AV nerds who do ops and events may want to make a calendar note to check in on an auction set for Nov. 17-19 organized to sell off the physical assets of Toronto’s Westbury National Show Systems Ltd. […]

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Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 12:23 PM

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16:9: 6,000 Thermal Sensor Kiosks Running In, Psssst, Home Depots

A smirking Hat Tip to Middletown, CT-based Reality Interactive  for issuing a second press release about the same thing, and showing how tech companies are constrained by their clients in what they can say about big projects. The company put out PR recently indicating its contactless body temperature check screen-thingie was seeing marketplace adoption. […]

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Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 7:52 AM

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16:9: New Touch Film Enables Smartphone-Level Touch On Big, Tiled LCD Video Walls

The touch technology firm TSItouch has started marketing a new touch film that can be applied to commercial LCD displays, resulting in the sort of responsiveness available on handheld device screens, and spanning between multiple screens on video walls. The company, based in Pennsylvania, worked with the Portuguese firm DISPLAX on what is called PCAP Tile. […]

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Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 9:32 AM

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16:9: Peerless-AV Adds Absen To DV LED Makes Supported By Its “Seamless” Mount System

The mounting hardware and specialty display firm Peerless-AV has added Absen to a long list of direct view LED companies it supports with what it calls its Seamless Connect series. The Chicago-area company’s dedicated Connect Series dvLED Mounting System now has versions specifically for Absen’s Acclaim Plus and Pro Series Direct View LED Displays. […]

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Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 9:09 AM

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16:9: Shuttle Marketing Stretch LCD With Built-In SoC And Computer Vision

The Taiwanese PC maker Shuttle has started marketing what I THINK is the first digital signage display product for the company – one of those stretch LCDs with a smart System on Chip processor inside. […]

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Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 8:45 AM

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16:9: Ultraleap Debuts Free Software To Make Existing Touchscreen Devices TouchFree

The UK tech start-up Ultraleap – which markets technology that merges camera-based hand-tracking with haptic feedback – has released free software it says enables existing touchscreens to go touch-free. The qualifier in that is to make the TouchFree software work, operators will need to add on a $250 camera/sensor or a $90 controller gadget. […]

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Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 11:11 AM

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16:9: In An Age of Sub-$200 Digital Signage Players, Here’s One That Starts At $3,500

The digital signage market has been steadily dropping the size and shape of media playout PCs for more than a decade. So it is interesting, in the age of $45 Raspberry Pi boards, to see an industrial-grade PC that has a starting street price of $3,500. […]

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Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 1:40 PM

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16:9: SigmaSense Closes $22M Series A Funding Round For Its Hyper-Sensitive Touchscreen Tech

The Austin, TX-based touch technology firm SigmaSense has completed and announced a $22 million Series A funding round, saying the capital infusion will help make the company a major player in the field. […]

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Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 8:31 AM

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Scala Adds New Proprietary Media Players From Its Scala China Factory

Some of the reasons STRATACACHE has been building up a presence in China is growing evident outside that country, with subsidiary Scala announcing a series of proprietary digital signage media players coming out of  its Scala China factory. […]

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Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 7:40 AM

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16:9: KC’s Keywest Touts NanoShield Film It Says Self-Disinfects Touchscreens In Less Than 15 Min

The Kansas City-area digital signage solutions firm Keywest Technology has started marketing a copper-infused antimicrobial film – called NanoShield – its makers claim will self-disinfect something like a touchscreen in less than 15 minutes. […]

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Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 5:05 PM

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Costa Rica’s Idea Media Develops Own IOT-driven Health Safety Kiosk

Back in May, 16:9 related the story of a Costa Rican digital signage solutions company that, like many, had been adjusting its business and offer to deal with the pandemic. I liked, at the time, that the company was not just taking something from China and reselling it.   Four months later, I checked in with Adrian Carmona of Idea Media, to find out how things have gone. […]

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Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 8:59 AM

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16:9: Yodeck Now Supporting NEC’s Raspberry Pi-based Smart Displays

It has been a few years since NEC Display bucked the big trend toward hard-wired System on Chip displays by instead focusing on smart displays that could be upgraded just by opening a trap door and swapping out the smarts. There has not been a mad rush to go down NEC’s path, as the platform focused on a snap-in module version of the Raspberry Pi, the UK-origin low-cost micro PC. […]

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Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 12:54 PM

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