Microsoft has killed off its motion-sensing Kinect – a camera-based gadget tied in with the tech giant’s consumer Xbox gaming boxes. […]
Software and solutions companies are always pushing out news of platform updates, but it’s not that often I see one of these companies talking about new hardware they’ve put together. […]
NEC Display Solutions has beefed up its line of Open Pluggable Specification (OPS) compliant computers that plug into the backs of displays and offer a Windows-based alternative to the increasing numbers of smart system on chip displays being sold in the digital signage market. The OPS computers now all include 64-bit Windows 10 Pro and get as powerful as Intel i7 Skylake Quad Cores. […]
Two of Toshiba’s North American business units have announced a pair of smartphone-sized and shaped mini PCs that have that solutions looking for problems air to them. Toshiba’s Client Solutions Division and Toshiba Client Solutions Canada Ltd have released the dynaEdge Mobile Mini PC DE-100 and dynaEdge with Intel Unite solution. The former has an MSRP of $620 and the latter $880. […]
This industry has come a long, long way in the years I’ve been involved, but I think we’re still in a place where many companies get motivated by deals that will involve screen and player counts that number in the 100s, never mind the 1,000s. […]
The options for all-in-one displays continues to broaden, with Sharp announcing a partnership with AOPEN that allows a small Windows 10-based media player to be slot-loaded in a 4K screen. The new arrangement uses the mini version of the Open Pluggable Specification (OPS) launched a few years back by Intel. […]
The French building infrastructure firm Legrand has acquired Milestone AV Technologies, the Minneapolis-based parent company of several big pro AV brands like Chief, Sanus and DA-Lite. […]
DSE BOOTH PREVIEWS GIGABYTE Technology DSE Booth Number -136 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Our new GIGABYTE BRIX IOT mini-PCs are coming into the market with a wide variety of usage scenarios. Based on the latest Intel processor, its efficient power consumption allows for the system to be completely fanless and support 4K UHD playback. […]
SpinetiX has been on the digital signage scene for more than a decade now, and if you are in the business, you may know them as the Swiss guys who market a really nice little aluminum-clad, solid state playback box. They had that 10 years ago, when a lot of signage networks were still going in with desktop PCs. What always stumped me was the price – which seemed really high. […]
I tend to think of the mounting solutions guys in the signage industry being a bit like Rodney Dangerfield, the comedian who used to moan about how he got no respect at all. The stuff that holds all those displays in place securely, and gets everything perfectly aligned and tidy, is essential to any job. But powder-coated metal isn’t as “sexy” as software or 4K displays. […]
DSE BOOTH PREVIEWS Peerless-AV DSE Booth Number – 907 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Peerless-AV’s booth is a Must See attraction based on the number of new solutions we’ll have – we will be showing our line of curved kiosks in multiple use cases such as phone charging and electric vehicle charging. […]
DSE BOOTH PREVIEWS Logic Supply DSE Booth Number – 1838 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? It is the people of Logic Supply that make us a great company. We are an open, innovative, independent and fair bunch so you must come by and meet us! […]
The guys at Armodilo have built up a name and healthy business developing pretty but also rugged enclosures for tablets being used as one-to-one digital signs across a bunch of verticals, and now they’ve come up with a new line that is more about function and cost than form. […]
Software and display companies get a lot of attention in the digital signage industry, but projects don’t happen without the gear that holds screens in place and keeps them protected. I travelled up to St. […]
Guest Post: Jami McGraw, Seneca Jami McGraw Perhaps the biggest attraction of shrinking a regular PC down to a tiny, candy bar-sized stick can be summed up in one word: clutter. A computer on an HDMI stick can plug into a port on the back of a desktop display or digital signage screen, and disappear. It’s clutter-free, and for a lot of jobs, seemingly an ideal solution. […]
