Enplug Adds Streaming Art App For Business Digital Signage, And Consumers July 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes LA-based digital signage CMS software firm Enplug has launched a new app/widget that enables users to put curated classic and contemporary art work on screens. Enplug Art uses material from contemporary artists and out of museum collections, with some 1,000 works available to schedule and show via everything from set-top boxes to smart TVs. “Digital …
Amazon’s New Interactive Video Service Pitched As Fast, Easy Way To Add Streamed Live Video To Solutions July 16, 2020 by Dave Haynes Amazon knows a thing or two about web services and video streaming, and has just introduced a new, fully managed service that the company says makes it fast and easy for customers and partners to set up live, interactive video streams. Run and sold through its subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Interactive Video Service …
Visix Adds Voice UX To Meeting Room Signs July 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes Atlanta-based CMS software firm Visix has added voice interactivity to its meeting room sign applications, building on voice capability debuted a year ago for wayfinding. Visix says its Touch10 meeting room signs now support a voice user interface, which gives instant access to schedules, floor maps, directions and other useful content without needing to poke …
H.266 Is Now Out; Halving Video File Sizes Without Compromising Viewing Quality July 13, 2020 by Dave Haynes A new global video encoding standard has been officially released that halves the size of massive 4K files and supports massively demanding files like 8K and 360 degree video. The new H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard was researched and developed by numerous industry partners, including Apple, Ericsson, Intel, Huawei, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Sony, and the …
Istanbul’s Massive New Airport Using Navori CMS To Drive DOOH Display Network July 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Swiss CMS software firm Navori has announced a deal that sees its platform being used to run a media company’s digital OOH advertising on 700+ screens in what will be the world’s biggest airport. The new-ish Istanbul Airport in Turkey, which is opening in phases, has Mediaport Marketing screens around the main terminal running …
Microsoft Closing Doors On All Of Its Terrific, Digital Display-Filled Stores June 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes Say whatever you want about Microsoft products, but their retail stores have always been fantastic examples of high impact digital signage. The side walls in the stores are all digital and do everything from marketing to instructions. So I am saddened by news this morning that the tech giant has opted to shut the stores …
Much-Needed Upgrade To LaGuardia Includes Plenty Of Dynamic, Data-Driven Screens June 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes Business travelers familiar with the hellscape that was the old LaGuardia airport in New York won’t recognize it if/when they start getting back on airplanes for things other than family emergencies. The cramped, dilapidated and just generally awful old terminal B that served Air Canada (my reference point) and some other airlines has been overhauled, …
Quividi Tweaks Audience Measurement Software To Address A Very 2020 Problem – Face Masks June 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes The French computer vision company Quividi says it has upgraded its patter detection software platform to deal with a very 2020 problem – counting and categorizing audiences for screens when the viewers are wearing face masks. Quividi says it is about to release an upgraded version of its audience measurement platform that can count Digital …
Navori Releases AI-Driven Access Control Solution For Retail, Public Spaces June 9, 2020 by Dave Haynes I could do almost nothing else but re-post PR about digital signage and pro AV companies releasing their take on a solution for problems brought on by COVID-19, but they’re all quite similar. So I’m not doing that – focusing on ones that have a different spin or come from a “major” player in the …
Stu Armstrong Moves Over To JohnRyan As CRO June 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes After more than 16 years running sales and being the “face” of ComQi, in its various iterations, Stu Armstrong has taken on the new task of Chief Revenue Officer for JohnRyan. The new role is more of an assignment than career move, as both ComQi and JohnRyan are owned by the Taiwanese display manufacturing giant …
