March 21-23 Could Be Date Window For DSE Reboot Next Year In Las Vegas July 2, 2021 by Super User Nothing has been announced, but if the company that is doing a re-launch of Digital Signage Expo next year does indeed pair the event with one it already operates, the DSE re-boot would be in late March in Las Vegas. Questex, which bought the assets of DSE, has not made a formal announcement of its …
More Supply Chain Woes – Costs For Shipping By Sea Container Up More Than 500% July 2, 2021 by Super User There has been lots of discussion the last few months about the industry impacts of shortages of everything from semi-conductors to glass and even wood pallets for shipping, but now we’re learning there’s another, very different supply chain problem – shipping costs. The painfully high costs of air freight see most manufacturers using the much …
Pro AV Industry Took $45B Hit In 2020, But Business Starting To Rebound : AVIXA July 2, 2021 by Super User The global pro AV industry – likely to no one’s surprise – took a massive financial hit in 2020 due to the pandemic, with overall industry revenues dropping by $45 billion. The new 2021 AV Industry Outlook and Trends Analysis (IOTA) produced by the industry association AVIXA says after peaking at $259 billion in 2019, pro AV industry …
Samsung Launches Its 24″ All-In-One Kiosk And Supporting Software Partner Ecosystem June 30, 2021 by Super User
Nissan Crossover Busts Its Thames-side LED Display Case, Using Anamorphic Illusion June 29, 2021 by Super User This is a temporary, pop-up digital marketing display for a Nissan vehicle on the banks of the Thames in London, using the same anamorphic illusion techniques seen lately on corner LED displays in China and South Korea. As with all of these LED projects, clever motion graphic design creates the illusion that the visuals are …
ZetaDisplay Target Of Takeover By UK Investment Firm June 28, 2021 by Super User Via Invidis The German language digital signage publisher and consulting shop invidis is reporting that Swedish solutions provider ZetaDisplay – one of the larger players in Europe – is looking over a takeover bid from a UK investor. Today, reports invidis, before the stock exchange opening, the London-based financial investor Hanover published a takeover to …
Start-up Monetizes Sidewalk Air Pollution Scrubber Towers For Cityscapes With OOH Ad Faces June 25, 2021 by Super User We’ve seen out of home media companies attach advertising faces to all kinds of things out in public – like transit shelters, pylons and sidewalk directories – but now a UK start-up has a solution on streets that pairs an ad face with an sidewalk air scrubber. The environmental media start-up Pluvo has partnered with KineticX, …
Giant BSOD Greets Motorists On Sydney Highway June 24, 2021 by Super User There’s always another one, so I am not validating the Linkedin speculation that this is the world’s biggest Blue Screen Of Death, but it would have to be up there in scale. This is on a motorway in Sydney, Australia, and is an LED ad screen for a media company in that country. The Linkedin …
ISE’s London Micro-Show On Today, Tomorrow; Looks Small, But AV People Happy To Be There June 23, 2021 by Super User The London micro-ISE show is on today and tomorrow, and it appears to have the same sort of dimensions and foot traffic as the one earlier in the month in Barcelona. It is a hybrid virtual and in-person show and the photos and tweets appearing online suggest a few things: UK AV people are just …
Rise Vision, Sharp NEC Partner On Raspberry Pi-Driven Digital Signage Solution For Schools June 23, 2021 by Super User Rise Vision and Sharp NEC Display Solutions have done a partnership that sees K-12 schools and higher education institutions getting a free year of using Rise Vision’s CMS platform with NEC Display MediaPlayer solution they purchase. As part of this partnership, Rise Vision has integrated their solution with the NEC MediaPlayer via the pre-installed Raspberry …
