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16:9: New Tightrope Device Management set-up turns Apple TV boxes into commercial digital signage players

St. Paul, MN-based Tightrope Media Systems has integrated its digital signage content management software with an Apple-centric device management platform that ends up turning little $149 Apple TV set-top boxes into commercial digital signage players. The integration with JAMF, says Tightrope, provides immediate interoperability between Carousel 7.0 and Apple TV. […]

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Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 6:31 PM

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16:9: InfoComm’s digital signage track takes long looks at the Big Digital Canvas

  InfoComm 2017 is coming up fast, with the big pro AV-systems integrator show set for mid-June in Orlando. The show has a pretty substantial digital signage education component this year, built primarily around the idea of the big digital canvas. […]

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Mon, May 1, 2017 at 8:25 AM

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16:9: Impressions From InfoComm China 2017

Back from Beijing after several days spent talking and walking at InfoComm China, and waaaay too many hours on my butt flying home. Thanks first to John Wang and Amanda Sung of IAdea, and the rest of the folks from the Digital Signage Multimedia Alliance (of Taiwan) for working with InfoComm to have me over there. I did a 40-minute session on the rise and rise of data-driven signage. […]

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Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 6:27 PM

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16:9: Rush Call For Speakers – NYC – Nov. 9th

I’m moderating a panel at an Infocomm Connections digital signage event next week in New York, and a couple of speakers have had to drop off last minute because of other commitments. So I’m looking for a couple of people to step in. […]

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Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:29 AM

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16:9: Digital Signage Summit Part Of InfoComm’s New York Event Nov. 9-10

Much of the industry attention will be on NYC next week and the whole NY Digital Signage Week thing (will be in and out  of that on an overnighter), but there’s another industry event planned for two weeks later in the city. […]

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Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:06 PM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Randy Pagnan, RP Visuals

This week I am speaking with Randy Pagnan, the RP in RP Visual Solutions, an Anaheim, California company that’s in the business of designing and manufacturing the special structures that hold signature digital signage projects in place. […]

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Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:05 AM

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16:9 Podcasts: Vincent Encontre, Intuilab

This week, I am speaking with Vincent Encontre, the CEO of the Toulouse, France-based interactive software firm Intuilab, which has a great product for reducing the time, cost and complications of getting interactive touchscreen projects together. Encontre talks about the company’s roots, servicing companies like Airbus, and how it pivoted into interactive digital. […]

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Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 12:05 AM

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16:9 Podcasts: Rick Cope, NanoLumens

In this episode, I’m speaking with Rick Cope, the founder and CEO of NanoLumens, which makes and markets its own line of unique indoor and outdoor LED displays from its facilities in Atlanta. […]

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Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:05 AM

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16:9: InfoComm 2016 Roundup: Any Surface Is A Canvas

InfoComm 2016 in Las Vegas left systems integrators and visual designers with a vast menu of possibilities for turning just about any surface into a digital canvas. […]

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Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 2:10 PM

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Start Your Digital Signage Project With Why, Or Don’t Even Start It (Dave Haynes’ presentation at the InfoComm Digital Signage Summit)

Following on the old, here’s a very new take on signage – my presentation last Tuesday morning in Las Vegas at the InfoComm Digital Signage Summit. It’s not really a look at the market as a whole. […]

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Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:28 AM

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16:9: InfoComm 2016 Attracts 38,833, Down Slightly From 2015

InfoComm has released its numbers for the just-ended show in Las Vegas, and they are down just a hair from last year’s show in Orlando. There were 38,833 people registered this year, down from 39,105 in 2015. However, the number of exhibitors hit 1,000 for the first time, up from 950. […]

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Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 8:28 PM

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16:9: InfoComm 2016: Day 2 Impressions

The more I walked and talked here at InfoComm, the more I was drawing conclusions around what digital signage displays look like in the next five years. First, many or most of the the single displays are going to ship with embedded intelligence on them. Whatever you think of System on Chip displays, pretty much all the major manufacturers are into it, save NEC and Sharp. […]

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Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:25 AM

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16:9: InfoComm 16: Day One Impressions

As warned, there are indoor LED displays everywhere at this year’s edition of the big InfoComm systems integrator-pro AV nerdfest in Las Vegas. There are two massive halls for this show, and LED companies are all over the footprint of both of them. There is by no means just an area designated for them. […]

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Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:40 AM

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16:9 from InfoComm16: LED World

I have not been on the InfoComm show floor yet, as it doesn’t formally open for a couple of hours and only exhibitors can get in during set-up. But what I am told from contacts and what I have seen through the doors is a sea of LED displays. They are everywhere. […]

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Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:20 AM

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The InfoComm Blast Furnace Is On

I am in Las Vegas this week, where it is a bit hot. This is what my rental car dashboard was telling me for the outside temperature at about 2 PM yesterday – 115 F. So if you are coming here for InfoComm this week, don’t worry about packing a sweater. […]

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Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 8:14 AM

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