There was a time, not long ago, when projection mapping was an intensely complicated, labour-intensive art form only high technical, deeply experienced pros could pull off. Now it’s a $5 app for iOS or Android. Well, sorta. […]
Sao Paulo, Brazil-based start-up OOZO TV is marketing a digital signage solution built around social media and ultra low-cost Raspberry Pi 3-driven media players. The company is touting what it calls a hyperlocal custom content solution that draws much of its content from real-time feeds from social media networks like Instagram. […]
Photo Credit: ONELAN Reserva About 18 months ago I put up a post about the handful of options I could find out there for putting little digital displays outside meeting room and conference room drawers. […]
Integrated Systems Europe is still three months, but the organization behind it is already touting how this will be the biggest ISE yet, with a jump in show-floor space, and the number of exhibitors and halls. The trade show, in Amsterdam, will see 135 first time exhibitors and more than 3,000 square metres of additional show-floor exhibition space compared to ISE 2016. […]
Guest Post: David Kaszycki, Aerva David Kaszycki Most convention centers around the world have installed some form of digital signage throughout their facilities. From large LED signs out front to information displays inside meeting rooms, convention centers are quickly becoming a category leader in the digital signage industry. […]
The big problem with projection mapping – apart from high costs and weather – was for quite some the technical challenge of aligning the projector or blended projectors precisely to a target projection surface. It got harder if the surface wasn’t flat. Software has fixed a lot of that, particularly projection-mapping software coming from companies like Christie. […]
The French digital signage CMS firm Telelogos has joined the relatively small but building list of companies that have developed solutions for Philips’ new D-Line series of system on chip smart displays, which run on Android. The Media4Display software integration with the all-in-one display series is done using an app, available from Telelogos or at www.professionaldisplayapps.com. […]
There are lots of digital signage display companies with software solutions, but it’s pretty rare to read about a signage CMS company touting a display solution. That, however, is what RMG Networks has announced. […]
DUBLIN, OHIO (PRWEB) October 18, 2016—Coffman Media, (“Coffman Media”) (the “Company”), a leading, digital signage and media technology integrator, today announced that David Hess has joined the Company as a director and advisor to the company. He will fulfill the role of Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing while advising the company on executive matters. Mr. […]
Guest Post: Linda Hofflander, Skykit I’ve seen some really bad digital signage content in my 15+ years in the digital signage business. Lida Hofflander I’ve seen signage using long bullet-point lists on default PowerPoint themes. I’ve seen neon yellow text on a royal blue background, so bright it made my eyes hurt. […]
On Wednesday, noon Eastern, I’m doing the third digital signage webinar in a series with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux. This one’s on why Linux is the media player OS of choice for a pile of networks and CMS companies, and arguably the most active of those companies is BroadSign, which has about 50,000 players out there running Ubuntu. […]
Flight arrivals and departures displays were in the early days of digital signage something akin to a killer app – something that needed no ROI exercise to demonstrate the value, but something that also required specialty software and software/data integration expertise. […]
The digital signage business seems to inexorably going turnkey – with most vendors I chat with saying that’s the ask and end-users saying that’s how they want to see things play out. On a broad scale, that means integrators and the largest software firms are offering a full range of capabilities in-house or through sponsorships. […]
Samsung has launched a new P-Series line of smart signage displays that are the first shipping with the Tizen operating system – the OS the company is shifting most or all of its information devices over to. The series has seven models, including 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays with 700 nits, 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays with 500 nits and a 32-inch display with 400 nits. […]
NEC Display Solutions will start marketing and shipping commercial display panels early next year that that have low-cost Raspberry Pi computer modules in them, effectively making them a new variation on smart digital signage displays. This is a notable shift for NEC, which has stayed out of the embedded system on chip display business that Samsung, LG, Panasonic and Philips have all jumped on. […]
