UPDATED: Details on Toronto industry mixer, March 8 March 1, 2011 by Super User Best Buy For Business, which does a pile of deployment work in Canada and is getting more deeply involved in the sector, is sponsoring an industry mixer next Tuesday, March 8th, at Shoeless Joe’s in downtown Toronto. The address is 276 King Street West, at the intersection of King and Duncan. The mixer will …
TI intros new $51 HD video processor for digital signage (among a few things) March 1, 2011 by Super UserExercising the absolute caveat that I am no propeller-head and don’t pretend to understand much of the inner workings or many of the acronyms, I do know enough to find this release today from Texas Instruments quite interesting … TI is introducing a new software compatible, power-efficient TMS320DM8148 DaVinci digital media processor that can do …
DPAA adds three members March 1, 2011 by Super UserIf I ever slow down long enough I will transcribe the lengthy chat I had in January (sheesh) with Susan Danaher of the Digital Place-based Advertising Association. Among the things she ran by me was the organization’s changes to its membership rules that enabled smaller companies to run with the bigger dogs. It was …
Video: Lumimo video building blocks February 28, 2011 by Super UserWay, way, way at the very back of the DSE hall last week was a company called Lumimo, showing off technology from Japan that embeds an LED module in a cube that’s maybe twice the size of a toy building block. The cubs are all wired and interconnect, controlled in clusters by controller boxes. The …
Denys Lavigne's arm-load of awards February 28, 2011 by Super UserThis is Arsenal Media president Denys Lavigne holding an arm-load worth of DSE content and project awards – including three top prizes – right after last week’s DSE awards dinner. The moron beside him is, of course, claiming to be the real mastermind behind Arsenal Media’s success. Denys and I have been friends for many …
Sharp uses mirrored bezels to "hide" video wall seams February 28, 2011 by Super UserOne of the things that caught my eye when running around at DSE was the big three-by-three video wall Sharp had at the front of its booth, and particularly some interesting trickery the manufacturer came up with to somewhat hide the seams between the display panels. This may be an old trick for all I …
Video: Preset DSE Mixer February 27, 2011 by Super UserThe final tally seems to land at about 260 people. I asked a friend to take photos for me, and … let’s just say I know she is talented in so many other ways. Nothing good to show you there. Adrian/DailyDOOH, did send me a few snaps, including this one with Jill Miller and Jason …
Missed DSE? Take tour via video product demo archive … February 27, 2011 by Super UserI was actually AT DSE last week, and I had time to get demos at maybe a half-dozen booths. It would have been great to have the time to actually walk the floor and look around, but I pretty much jogged it between meetings. Lots of other people no doubt found themselves in the same …
The Digital Content Circle goes live February 26, 2011 by Super UserSomewhat lost in all the bustle and noise that is DSE week in Las Vegas were several announcements from vendors and other industry companies. Because there was interesting stuff coming out, but precious little time to more than nod at the releases, I am going to ignore the stale-date thing and look at a few …
DSE 2011 … Day two impressions from the floor February 25, 2011 by Super UserI am sitting in the airport, heading home and thinking this could be one of those times when I am so bagged I actually can sleep on an airplane. That and I have my little white sleepy-time pills. I would love to report that Day Two was when my meetings were cleared off and it …
