Fifteen Mixer Slots Open Up. Register Now! February 4, 2013 by Super User Preset Mixer FINAL from studio10productions on Vimeo. Technically the mixer is sold out, but there are always some people who have changes in plans and also a number of people who – for reasons escaping me – register themselves twice. Maybe because they’re not sure the ticketing worked first time around? Doesn’t matter. The net …
Christie’s Book Of Shapes Now A Free iPad App (Or PDF) February 1, 2013 by Super User For the purposes of full disclosure, this is a bit of a shameless plug. Christie has published and released The Book of Shapes – a “coffee table” style book that showcases projects around the globe that have used the company’s MicroTiles to somewhat reinvent the idea of video walls and digital display in retail and arhcitectuarl …
RMG Gets Unfocused Again, Taking Over Akoo’s Failed Mall Media Network January 31, 2013 by Super User News that RMG Networks has taken over the screens in shopping malls that were previously run by Akoo comes as a bit of a surprise, given that the San Francisco-based company had last year got out of verticals like fitness to focus solely on airline travel. Now the company is selling a huge network of …
ComQi Exits The Com Side Of Business Via Kramer Licensing Deal January 29, 2013 by Super User An email just came in that says Kramer Electronics and ComQi have done a “global strategic partnership agreement” that has the Com in ComQi effectively dealt to Kramer. The agreement, says a release timed for Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam, provides Kramer Electronics with exclusive manufacturing, sales and marketing rights for ComQi’s (former Minicom Digital Signage) …
Sightings: Transparent LCDs Done Right January 29, 2013 by Super User I followed a link to some unrelated video from the show floor at ISE in Amsterdam, which (as often happens online) took me somewhere else and to this piece of video. This company, TransLook, does the much-copied transparent LCD thing, but does content way, way better than most of what I have seen out there. …
New Digital Poster Runs, Updates Off Solar January 29, 2013 by Super User The marketplace potential for monochromatic signs probably has a relatively low ceiling, but nonetheless there are theoretically lots of basic paper signs that could be replaced with this newest generation of electronic ink displays if the ROI made sense. Plastic Logic and SERELC have developed and are now marketing a low-power outdoor digital signage solution …
Mr. Crankypants Rolls Over 3,000 Mark January 28, 2013 by Super User One of things I like about WordPress as a content management system is it gives you all kinds of stats on a configurable dashboard, so it is easy to know where you are at. I know I was coming up on my 7th anniversary as Mr. Crankypants blogger (post 1 was Feb. 5, 2006) but …
Preset Mixer Registration Stats January 28, 2013 by Super User Eventbrite’s ticket registration engine does a nice job of logging stats and spitting out analytics on events. The map shows where people are coming from, and the chart below tells you what people do. I didn’t know there were 22 consultants in this space. We could have a club! And secret handshakes! We’re now past …
Low Bandwidth, High Quality H.265 Video Gets Standards OK January 28, 2013 by Super User In what’s kind of a big deal for ops guys and people who pay the bandwidth bills, the International Telecommunication Union has approved the H.265 video encoding standard, which means the same piece of video can have its file size reduced by half without compromising quality. So if you are moving a lot of video …
Mixer Update: 30 Tickets Left January 28, 2013 by Super User There are just 30 slots left for the annual Preset Group Mixer. I thought they’d go on the weekend, but apparently people have lives. To grab one one of the last spots, register here: http://presetmixer2013.eventbrite.com/
