Scala Opens First Of What It Says Will Be Several Satellite Showrooms Across Europe November 27, 2024 by Super User There’s nothing unusual about digital signage CMS software companies having showrooms, but they’re almost always located somewhere in the head office building. The CMS software firm Scala does that, with a showroom space in its European head office in the Netherlands, but now it is also opening showrooms in regional locations – the first one …
Betting Shop Chain Switches In-Store Digital Signage Set-Up To Amino’s Streaming Solution November 27, 2024 by Super User Paddy Power, the well-known retail betting shop chain in the UK and Ireland, has taken the interesting step of cutting over from a traditional servers and end-point PCs set-up for its in-store digital signage network to one using streaming media players. UK-based Amino’s H200 4K media players are now being used in more than 500 …
PPDS Gets A Deployment Of Its Lovely, Pricey E Ink Tableaux Screens … But Just Four Units November 26, 2024 by Super User Color e-paper is great tech, but prices likely have to come down by at least half – or more – before the industry is likely to see broad adoption. A good case in point is an announcement from PPDS (aka Philips) announcing a deployment of its E Ink-based Philips Tableaux displays at a historic restaurant and …
Trump Plans To Impose New Tariffs On Imported Electronics Could Chill US Pro AV Sector November 26, 2024 by Florian Rotberg Guest post: Florian Rotberg, Invidis Despite the current USMCA free trade agreement that Donald Trump signed with Canada and Mexico during his first term in office, the president-elect plans to impose new tariffs of 25 percent on all imports from Mexico and Canada, and an additional 10 percent on all imports from China. The newly-announced …
Tech That Pours Transistor-Filled Inks On MicroLEDs Touted As Way To Realize Mass Market Pricing November 26, 2024 by Super User A UK chemicals company is teaming up with one of the world’s largest display manufacturers to co-develop a new kind of transparent display that would be made, at least in theory, without much of the costs and complexity of current microLED manufacturing. Manchester-based Smartkem suggests that displays built by its partner, Taiwanese manufacturing AUO, would …
CAPEX Spending By Display Manufacturers Surpasses $7B This Year; On Both LCD And OLED November 25, 2024 by Super User One indicator of the relative health of the display tech sector would be how much manufacturers are spending on equipment, and by that measure, the sector looks quite robust. But a 47% jump in spending in 2024 comes immediately on the heels of big dips in investment the previous year. The research and consulting firm …
OOH Ad Spend In US Up 4.6% For 2024: OAAA November 25, 2024 by Super User Out of home (OOH) advertising revenue in the U.S. increased 4.3% in the third quarter of 2024, nudging past $2B, reports the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA). The numbers are up for the year by 4.6%. Key Q3 findings: Digital OOH is key growth driver; Digital OOH, which accounted for 33.2% of …
Uniguest Consolidates Digital Communication Tools Into Single Cloud Platform November 22, 2024 by Super User One of the big challenges of growing a company through acquisition is harmonizing a bunch of solutions developed by the different sister-in-law companies and gradually offering up something cohesive. Nashville-based Uniguest has been on that journey and has now introduced Uniguest Hub, which presents its blended offer as a single management system. The new SaaS …
LG Re-Org Puts Commercial Displays In Same Business Tent As Company’s Media And Entertainment Business November 22, 2024 by Super User LG Electronics has announced a pile of organizational changes and appointments it says its built around the Korean company’s mid- to long-term strategy, restructuring the business into four companies and putting commercial displays under the umbrella of Media Entertainment Solutions. The business units are Home Appliance Solution (HS) Company, the Media Entertainment Solution (MS) Company, …
Free Download: The 10 Most Important Questions To Ask When Sourcing Digital Signage CMS Software November 19, 2024 by Super User German language content partner invidis has developed a free download PDF guide to choosing the optimal CMS software, and unlike some other publications (making a throat-clearing sound here) with such “guides” or lists, this one isn’t just a round-up of companies that happen to also be advertisers in those publications. invidis has developed a process …
