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Projects: LED Staircase Leads Way Into New Vegas Nightclub

I’m not quite sure how a company based in Ottawa, Ontario got a nightclub deal in Las Vegas, Nevada, but UTG Digital Media from Canada’s capital has installed a slick LED staircase at the new JEWEL Nightclub at the Aria casino-hotel. The club opened last night and is managed by the hospitality company Hakkasan Group, which also has other clubs around the strip. […]

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Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 12:52 PM

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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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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Randy Dearborn, MGM Resorts

Randy Dearborn has been running digital signage networks since 1993, starting with a skunkworks set-up at Treasure Island in Las Vegas and building that up to a network that covers 1,000s of screens across the MGM Resorts International portfolio. […]

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Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 12:03 AM

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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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16:9: InfoComm Lists 361 Digital Signage Exhibitors – Some Who Actually Do Digital Signage

InfoComm has never really been a big show for the software side of the digital signage business, and that’s a trend that continues in a couple of weeks in Las Vegas. There are 361 exhibitors that have associated themselves to the digital signage category, among many, in the exhibitor directory. […]

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Thu, May 26, 2016 at 8:59 AM

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16:9: InfoComm’s Speaker Line-Up for Digital Signage Summit

The speaker line-up now seems to be in place for the Digital Signage Summit at InfoComm, being run by the German consultancy and event group Invidis Consulting. The summit is on Tuesday, June 7th, from 8 AM (groan) to 3:30 PM, I think/assume/better find out that it is at the Las Vegas Convention Centre. I better find out because I am among the people speaking at the thing. […]

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Tue, May 17, 2016 at 9:05 AM

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Leyard, Planar Light Up Giant 8K Indoor LED Wall At NAB

This is what Planar and its parent company Leyard are showing this week at the big NAB broadcast trade show in Las Vegas – about $2.3 million worth of 8K LED wall. The video wall measures more than 31 feet wide by 18 feet tall (9.5 meters by 5.5 meters) and is composed of 64 Leyard TWA1.2 LED video wall displays with a 1.2 mm pixel pitch. […]

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Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 5:46 PM

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16:9: DSE Reports Slight Upticks In 2016 Attendee, Exhibit Space Numbers

The company behind the recent Digital Signage Expo says DSE set new records for attendees and floor space, and also saw a critical bump in the number of end-users walking the aisles. […]

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Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 8:51 AM

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16:9: InfoComm16 Gets European Help For Las Vegas Digital Signage Summit

Florian Rotberg speaking at a 2015 European conference The big pro AV trade show InfoComm has for several years had some sort of digital signage educational conference running ahead of the exhibit hall opening, and there will be another one this year – with a European twist. […]

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Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 12:38 PM

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16:9: Pix: Preset Group DSE 2016 Mixer In Las Vegas

Ok, back at World HQ after DSE and a mini-vacation three hours northeast of Vegas ay Zion National Park. One word review: Amazing. I arranged for a local guy to run around at the mixer last week and grab shots of the venue and people. […]

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Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:51 AM

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16:9: What You Want To See At DSE 016

  Guest poster Irfan Khan submitted a piece that went up this morning about the general sorts of things you should expect to see on the trade show floor at Digital Signage Expo next week in Las Vegas. […]

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Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:42 AM

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16:9: What To Expect At DSE 2016

GUEST POST: Irfan Khan, Skykit The 2016 Digital Signage Expo (DSE) is almost here. Those of you attending the convention in Las Vegas from March 15-17 might be wondering what to expect and how best to prepare. Lucky for you, I’ve done some research so you don’t have to. […]

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Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 8:15 AM

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