Microsoft Pushes to Standardize Digital Signage with Android-Based Platform July 15, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Over the past few months, our newsroom inbox has seen a few press releases trickle in about hardware vendors joining the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP) for digital signage. This prompted me to have a chat with MDEP expert Jon Sidwick from AV consultancy Blue Touch Paper. The article I wrote for invidis.com ended up …
Korbyt Joins Growing List Of CMS Solutions Supporting Amazon’s $100 Signage Stick April 30, 2025 by Super User Amazon has signed on another CMS software firm that has developed support for the $100 Amazon Signage HDMI stick, with Dallas, TX-based Korbyt bringing the total to 22 companies. While some of the early adopters were small companies that might raise questions like “Sorry, who???”, the online retailing giant has also signed up some pretty …
ScreenCloud Launches $65 Hardware Digital Signage Player; Gets New Growth Funding Via Strategic Partner April 9, 2025 by Super User The UK-based CMS software firm ScreenCloud has developed and started marketing a new in-house hardware media player that goes at the same entry-level business Amazon is now chasing with its $100 Signage Stick. The PIXI has a list price of just $65. It’s a little box that runs Android 14, supports 4K, and has 64 …
New LG Smart Display Series Will Ship This Spring With BrightSignOS Onboard January 28, 2025 by Super User LG’s US pro display group has done an interesting tie-up that will see a new series of LG ultra high definition digital signage displays running BrightSignOS operating system, with units available to U.S. customers Q2 and international markets to follow. The new LG 49, 55, and 65-inch UV5N series models will run BrightSignOS on an …
Look Ma, No Dongles! Screenshare Tech Firm Airtame Adds Virtual Version That Includes Digital Signage Platform September 20, 2024 by Super User A Danish company called Airtame has been making and marketing hardware dongles with supporting software that enables hybrid conferencing, screen sharing and basic workplace-focused digital signage. Now Airtame has started marketing a Virtual Airtame solution that takes the dongle out of the hardware mix, making it possible to do that stuff using a dedicated app. …
Samsung Eyes Long Tail Of SMB Market For Its Now-Released VXT Digital Signage Platform February 16, 2024 by Super User Samsung has been talking up its VXT digital signage solution for more than a year now, but it was at ISE a couple of weeks ago that the South Korean tech giant formally launched the cloud-based software and services solution to the industry, including the broader pro AV ecosystem. VXT is short for Visual eXperience …
Loop Media Expands Market To Include Custom Streaming Channels For Enterprise Businesses February 14, 2024 by Super User A lot of digital signage CMS and solutions providers who start out targeting the small business market shift to enterprise, where there is more money and scale, and now we’re seeing Digital OOH network operators make a similar shift, or maybe in the case of Loop Media, and expansion. The LA-based company, which provides curated …
PPDS Launches Free Content Creation And Scheduling App For Its B-Line “Business TVs” January 17, 2024 by Super User PPDS has added entry-level, on-premise CMS capabilities to update and manage content on its Philips B-Line series of 4K Business TVs – enabling users to create and schedule content off of a new and free app called PPDS Publisher. The B-Line series – available in 43 to 75-inch variants – involves 16/7-rated consumer TVs that …
Bluefin Launches New Flex-OS Displays That Run Built-in Brightsign or Android, Or Use External Player January 8, 2024 by Super User Atlanta-based specialty display manufacturer Bluefin has broadened its product line to offer more flexibility in what play-out hardware and software can be used with its range of retail-centric shelf-edge and header displays. The company now has an LCD display line-up called Flex-OS that ranges from 27 to 55 inches in standard formats, but also include …
Watch: 164 Smartphones Stacked Like Christmas Tree To Create Unique Video Wall December 14, 2023 by Super User This is a fun retail project in Chile that somehow or other sync’s up 164 Samsung Galaxy smartphones to deliver messages on a digital Christmas tree. The set-up uses Novisign’s CMS software and its “Screen Sync” to get all the phones mapped and capable of behaving like a very big and complicated video wall, except …
