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16:9: Quebec’s Lottery Corp Rolling Out Menuboard-Style Screens In Walmart Kiosks

Loto-Quebec was an early adopter for digital signage, putting screens in retail sites well more than a decade ago. Much of what the lotteries concern does is a basic set-up in convenience stores, but like other lottery companies they try to create a larger, special purpose presence in shopping malls and heavy foot traffic retail locations like Walmarts. […]

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Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 9:02 AM

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16:9: How Grocers Are Transforming, Using Digital Signage And Employee Communications

Guest Post: Curtis Campbell, Hughes Curtis Campbell Gone are the days of your mother sitting at the kitchen table with the Sunday paper, clipping coupons and making mile-long grocery lists, only to then spend several hours at potentially multiple stores to gather everything to feed the family. […]

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Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 3:35 PM

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16:9: Consumer Devices Are Increasingly Going Commercial, The Latest: SignageLive Adds Fire TV Stick Support

When HDMI media player sticks like Amazon’s Fire TV first came on the market a few years ago, some smaller companies and enterprising digital signage nerds started playing around with it, wondering if it could serve as a very low-cost media player. […]

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Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:41 AM

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16:9: Don’t Get Burned: Remote Power For LED Is Unnecessary

Guest Post: Eric Seigler, Nanolumens When working with any sort of light-producing electrical product, be it a laptop, a desk lamp, or a commercial digital display, you need to be mindful of the product’s heat output. […]

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Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 8:17 PM

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Intuiville Lets Developers Wander Virtual Digital Showrooms For Interactive Ideas

The French firm that offers a coding-free platform for creating, deploying, measuring and managing interactive digital screens has produced an interesting virtual showroom that highlights dozens of use-cases and ideas. Intuiface launched Intuiville, intended as the “most comprehensive guide to digital interactivity at work. […]

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Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 12:32 PM

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16:9: How Kitcast’s Aggressive Use Of Social Media Has Helped Build Its Digital Signage Brand

If you go to any industry trade shows and follow social media activity around them, you’ll no doubt have noticed A LOT of tweeting by a company called Kitcast. They’ve done a very effective job of using social media to create both buzz and booth traffic, and Kitcast staffers were back at it recently at the Digital Signage Summit in Germany. […]

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Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 9:02 PM

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16:9: 10 Mistakes To Avoid While Setting Up A Digital Signage Network

Guest Post: Balaji Kamineni, Zeetaminds Balaji Kamineni Setting up a signage network might sound easy, but the range of hardware and the never-ending list of software providers can be too much to digest for a first-time researcher. Setting up a network and then deciding to change the software or hardware is a situation anyone wants to avoid. […]

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Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 5:28 PM

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16:9: New, Free Online Tool Helps Digital Signage Content Designers Get Font Sizes Right

Montreal’s Telecine, a longtime digital signage content and solutions provider, has come up with a clever online calculator designed to help network operators and content developers ensure their messages are readable by viewers. […]

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Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 8:12 AM

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Insurance Tech Firm Uses Digital Signage All Thru New HQ Digs

This is a nice video case study from Four Winds Interactive, which has provided the digital signage solution for another Denver company’s head office. The insurance tech firm Vertafore has 50+ screens around its new digs – relying on FWI’s platform to push everything from event announcements and business metrics to employee recognition and culture information. […]

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Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 7:21 AM

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Video: Mind-blowing 3D Content At Giant Seoul Duty-Free

Hat Tip Gary Kayye for noting thus on LinkedIn … This is some rather amazing three dimensional content on a ceiling-suspended 3.5mm LED install at the Shinsegae duty free store in Gangnam, the famed Seoul shopping district. The content was put together by D’Strict, the Korean company that also did that similarly suspended ceiling over a bar at the SLS in Vegas. […]

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Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 1:14 PM

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This Screen Mount Is Ready For Battle(ships)

Montreal in the summer is awesome, but the city has so many things going on in the central district, and SOOOO much road construction, the only way to get around is walk or the Metro. I was standing on one subway station platform last week, looking of course at the digital signage screens, when I noticed the mount system being used. […]

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Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 10:23 AM

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What’s The Point Of Digital Signage?

Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix Debbie DeWitt Digital signage is often talked about in terms of technology, and that makes sense. At its core, it is hardware sending signal to other hardware. It’s often purchased by IT folks, and it runs on a network. […]

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Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 9:51 AM

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16:9: Tightrope’s J.J. Parker On His Digital Signage Journey From Video Bulletin Boards To Apple TVs

Tightrope Media Systems is one of the oldest companies in the digital signage ecosystem, with roots tracing back to 1997 in Minneapolis. Co-founder J.J. Parker bought a stack of books and taught himself coding to come up with what was then called a video bulletin board system for local schools. […]

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Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 12:10 AM

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16:9: New Content Partnership Puts Tenant Notices On High-Rise Elevator Screens

Digital signage has been in elevators has been around longer than the term “digital signage” – but there’s still room for new things to happen in what is now, weirdly, an old medium. […]

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Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 9:35 AM

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16:9: Ambitious New LA Skateboard Shop Uses Curved LED Wall To Drive Retail Experience

Readers will be shocked to read that I don’t know a lot about skateboards or skateboard retailing. Shameful, but true. I did not know, for example, that they can look like over-priced kitchenware stores, or a forgotten part of the Caesars Palace resort in Vegas. […]

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Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 6:25 AM

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