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VIA Launches New Android 8.0, AI-Ready Digital Signage Player

Taiwan’s VIA Technologies has done a significant upgrade on its line of ruggedized Android digital signage players, releasing what it calls the VIA ALTA DS 3 Edge AI system. The $400 MSRP units are run off the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820E Embedded Platform and Android 8.0. Previous versions, while powerful, were several generations back at Android 4.4. […]

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Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 8:18 AM

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UK’s Ultrahaptics Launches Plug And Play Device For Touch-Free Interactive Screens

A UK company has released a plug and play device that allows digital signage and interactive solutions companies to easily develop immersive screen projects that use haptics technology. The new STRATOS Inspire uses arrays of ultrasonic transducers to project haptic feedback directly onto users’ hands, creating the sense of touch in mid-air. […]

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Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 11:45 AM

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16:9: Start-Up Grabb-It Turns Rideshare Cars Into Rolling Digital OOH Posters

A San Francisco start-up called Grabb-It is trying to make a go of a Digital OOH advertising model that puts pico projectors in the back of ride-share cars that beam ads on to a rear passenger window. The ads show up on windows because of a transparent film overlay added to the window. The spots only run when the Uber or Lyft or whatever does not have an active fare. […]

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Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 12:09 PM

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16:9: Menu Board Hack – Using Extending Mounts To Compensate For Bad Design

Spotted by a regular reader at a food stand in T2 at SFO airport – QSR menu screens with mounts that pull the screen out from the wall recesses when they need to be serviced … except they just left them out. Doesn’t look good, with cables hanging down, tilted screens and so on. And there’s the HBF sign that’s askew. […]

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Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 8:32 AM

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Zotac Marketing Mini PC The Size And Shape Of Smartphone

I remember years ago somebody or other talking about how one day PCs were going to be the same form factor as smartphones. We are apparently there (though arguably we’re past that with stick PCs). The Hong Kong manufacturer Zotac is marketing a super thin and light PC that’s somewhere between a portable hard drive and smartphone in dimension. […]

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Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 10:29 AM

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DSE 2018 16:9 Mixer Sponsor Profile – Chief

The mounting systems/infrastructure companies are huge supporters of this industry, in a number of ways. That includes sponsoring networking events like the 16:9 mixer, which  Chief, a Minneapolis-area company has done for several years now. The company is part of a larger Minneapolis-area company, Milestone AV Technologies. […]

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Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:24 AM

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DSE 2018 Booth Previews – RP Visual Solutions On Who Is Behind A Lot Of High Profile Video Walls

rp Visual Solutions – DSE Booth 1763 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths?  They need to stop by and see who’s BEHIND some of the most prestigious walls in Vegas. Our focus is #CreativeVisualStructures. We’re not just a mount manufacturer. […]

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Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 4:42 PM

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DSE 2018 Booth Previews – Czech Software Shop SignageOS Showing Its “Unification Platform”

signageOS – Booth 1570 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths?  Well, we are special. We’re a unique software company of almost 20 engineers in a category of its own. We are not a CMS, not an integrator nor a software development agency. […]

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Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 1:10 PM

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DSE 2018 Booth Previews – Mimo Monitors Debuting Adapt-IQV And New HDMI Capture Card

Mimo Monitors – Booth 1734 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths?  This year we will be showcasing and launching the new Adapt-IQV, which is ideal for digital signage applications. […]

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Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 11:33 AM

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DSE 2018 Booth Previews – Peerless-AV To Show Its Wide Range of Digital Signage Solutions

Peerless-AV – Booth 1917 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths?  Booth attendees should visit the Peerless-AV booth (#1917) for our wide range of digital signage solutions. From outdoor displays to kiosks to video wall mounts, we will be showcasing solutions that fit any digital signage need. […]

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Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 6:30 AM

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BrightSign To Debut New HDR-Ready Players At ISE

New version releases of signage gear don’t tend to get me too excited, but given the volume and breadth of BrightSign’s player business – and the number of software companies now integrating to their little purple boxes – it’s worth noting that a set of new units will have their debut next week at ISE. […]

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Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 5:00 PM

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16:9: Intel Shipping Pair Of Low-Cost 3D Depth-Sensing Cameras For Analytics, Interactive

Intel has started shipping a pair of low-cost RealSense D400 Depth Cameras that add 3D depth sensing capability, something that could prove useful for interactive digital signage applications and for video-driven analytics. […]

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Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 8:38 AM

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16:9: Vegas Airport Car Rental Shuttles Now Kitted Out With GPS-Enabled Ad Screens Inside

It’s kinda hard to get excited about ad screens in shuttle buses, but a new case study out from BrightSign is interesting not so much for the product, but the insight and how this stuff is done in things that are moving, bouncing and bumping, and probably exposed to all kinds of power spikes and cuts. […]

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Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 1:35 PM

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16:9: Intel’s Newest NUC Can Drive Six Digital Signage Displays At Once

Photo source: Liliputing Intel is showing off a new, very powerful version of its NUC mini-PCs, which have been widely used by some digital signage network operators, software vendors and systems integrators. […]

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Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 1:44 PM

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16:9: Scala Starts Making Branded Digital Signage Media Players

Scala has started marketing a pair of branded, Windows 10-driven digital signage players as part of the company’s solution offer. […]

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Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:56 AM

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