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Video: ComQi Puts Retail Tech In Context With Pop-Up Store

The digital signage industry has gradually come around to the idea that buyers are less interested in how things work than they are in what the things will do for them. You see that reflected in trade show booths that are increasingly putting the technology in context, like faux retail settings. The next step, logically, is to have real stores as the showrooms. […]

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Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 4:42 PM

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16:9: Cineplex Wins Turnkey Deal To Run QSR Menu Boards For Biggest McDonald’s Franchisee On Planet

Toronto-based Cineplex Digital Media has done a deal with a company billed as the largest independent McDonald’s franchisee in the world to deploy, maintain and operate digital menu boards at McDonald’s locations way south in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. […]

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Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 7:35 PM

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16:9: Get Smart With Automated Digital Signage Applications

Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix We all want to be smart. Debbie DeWitt The word smart means showing quick intelligence, but can also mean socially elegant and sophisticated. […]

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Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 6:51 AM

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16:9: Why Your Digital Signage ROI Model Is Wrong

Guest Post: Tomer Mann, 22 Miles I constantly see or hear from customers who end up with bad deals because they are ill-informed by a vendor and make a purchase based on the wrong things. They may be fooled into believing the solution provider has all these advanced features, but find out later there are additional hidden costs. […]

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Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 5:05 PM

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16:9: Navori Adds Support For Samsung Tizen SOC Displays; MVIV Now Runs On LG Web OS

Many software companies are broadening their use of System On Chip displays, both with Android and on the proprietary versions of Linux run by the big Korean displaycos. […]

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Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:05 AM

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Chicago Office Block’s New LED Display Motion-Paints Impressionist Scenes

One of my favorite big screen creative shops, New York’s ESI Design, has started talking about another stunning piece of work – a 23-foot-tall fine pitch LED feature display in the lobby of a Chicago office block that  “paints” videos of familiar local scenes in an Impressionist style. […]

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Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 9:07 AM

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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: Startup Kitcast Adds Jamf Device Management To Its Apple TV Digital Signage Offer

Start-ups do themselves no favors pushing out press releases claiming world domination, when their brand is top of mind for absolutely no one outside their offices. […]

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Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 8:21 AM

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16:9: The “Service-First” Approach To Selecting A Digital Signage Platform

Guest Post: John Wang, IAdea Digital signage has come a long way from the days of DVD players and USB sticks to a highly-connected platform that enables intelligent applications across every aspect of our lives. […]

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Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 7:35 PM

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16:9: Digital Signage In A Post-Digital Display World

Guest Post: Ryan Cahoy, Rise Vision This spring, Steven Spielberg will treat audiences to a story millions of readers already know: Ready Player One. The story takes place in a world where people rise and fall in an entirely VR world. It’s a concept that’s becoming more and more of a reality each year. […]

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Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 3:05 PM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Dan Garner On How Xibo Makes Money From Free, Open Source Software

By far the busiest post on the Sixteen:Nine blog is one that lists the many options out there for free, kinda sorta free, or free to start with digital signage CMS software. One of the oldest – and among the few that are legitimately free – is Xibo, an open source digital signage solution that started as a student project in the UK many years ago. […]

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Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 12:16 AM

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16:9: Digital Signage Installation Nightmares, And ‘The Chosen Ones’

GUEST POST: Luis Villafane, MALER I have been running digital signage hardware since 2001, and over all that time I’ve only found a handful of devices I’d call “The Chosen Ones” – gear I was comfortable putting in production environments. […]

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Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 3:34 PM

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Broadsign Debuts Brand Refresh, Streamlined Product Handles

Montreal-based CMS software company Broadsign has revealed a refreshed brand today, as well as tweaks that clean up the names for core products. The logo looks a bit different in terms of color and font selection, and the capital S in BroadSign is gone, so it is now Broadsign. Fine by me. […]

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Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 9:49 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Manolo Almagro, Q Division

Just last week Manolo Almagro pulled the curtains back on a new company he’s started, under the umbrella of Chris Riegel’s ever-growing STRATACACHE empire. It’s called Q Division, a retail tech consultancy that in many respects is the sum total reflection of 20-plus years that Manny has been around tech, in a crazy variety of ways. […]

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Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 12:12 AM

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Free Xibo Digital Signage CMS Adds Commercial LG webOS Player

The open source digital signage CMS Xibo now has a software player that will work happily with LG’s webOS smart displays, but it’s not free like the mothership CMS. The new webOS player has a one-time fee of 120 GBP, or about $160 USD. If you equated that to a SaaS fee over three years, that would be  less than $5/month. […]

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Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:13 AM

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