Telecine Launches Animated Video Learning Series – Called Digitalsignage.tips April 9, 2020 by Dave Haynes The team at Montreal digital signage solutions company Telecine does a lot of serious work for some big name business clients, but it is a lot more playful when it comes to its own marketing. For many years, James Fine and his team have put together loopy Christmas videos that it then shares out to …
Finally, A Rolling, Robotic Digital Poster On Wheels! April 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes In just about every speaking gig I do, I work in the importance of strategy, and encourage both sellers and buyers to ask a big, simple question: Why? I don’t have a solid answer to why for this loopy thing: a four-screen robotic ad machine that in theory would slowly roll along the concourses of …
Mimo Debuts Its First Outdoor-Ready Touch Display April 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes There are many options out there for large daylight-ready displays in totems and kiosks, but I’ve not seen much outside of the stuff sold on Alibaba that comes in much smaller sizes and would be supported on the east side of the Pacific Ocean. Libertyville, Illinois-based Mimo Monitors, known for small form-factor all-in-one displays, has …
Sports Venues, Casinos Using Shutdowns To Do Display Upgrades April 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes The sports and entertainment venues publication VenuesNow has an interesting piece up about how some stadiums, arenas and casinos are using shutdowns brought on by the pandemic to upgrade their visual display systems. The piece focused on Daktronics, which is among the biggest suppliers of direct view LED displays for those kids of spaces. “We’re …
Two Touchless Solutions For Times When Interactive Is A Little Scary April 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes There have been many times when I have had demos done for me of vendor solutions that involved people using their smartphones to do something more easily done on a general-use touchscreen. I’d politely say what they’d developed was interesting, but then ask why consumers/patients/whoever wouldn’t just boink away on a touchscreen to get what …
When Your Bedroom Becomes Your Office, And You’re In A Meeting April 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes With many millions of people working from home, most rather abruptly, they are confronting challenges like finding room to work, and somehow chasing off the kids who are also at home, and will barge in at the worst moments. There are endless meeting room display solutions out there, but the great majority of them are …
Hypersign Launches New All-In Digital Signage As A Service, Or DSaas April 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes Spartanburg, SC’s Hypersign has read its market and put together a business bundle it calls DSaas, which is short for Digital Signage as a service. The bundled program, which seems to be coming up more and more in digital signage (see Planar from Wednesday for another variation on this), allows end-users to put everything they …
Smart Digital, BrightSign Team To Drive Wayfinding At NYC COVID-19 Field Hospitals April 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes Here’s another story about companies pitching in … BrightSign CEO has written a blog post (somewhere, it was passed along) about adding AV to the temporary hospital facilities established in hard hit NYC. He writes: Despite how bleak the outlook may appear today, I’m inspired by how the AV industry is responding to this crisis. …
STRATACACHE Buys Old Computer Chip Plant In Oregon; Plans Next-Gen Display Facility April 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes STRATACACHE has bought an old computer chip facility south of Portland, OR with plans to revive it as a fab for its increasingly verticalized digital signage solutions business. CEO Chris Riegel bought the old Hynix plant last week for $6.3 million. Hynix spent $1.5 billion to build and equip the 1.2-million-square-foot factory, which opened in …
Planar Debuts All-In, Lease-based Bundle Program For Its Display Solutions April 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes Portland, OR-based digital display company Planar has started marketing a bundled program that puts pretty much everything associated with a visual systems project into one fixed monthly cost. The Planar EverNew Managed Service Program lets customers finance the total cost of their projects—including display hardware, software, extended warranties, installation and the Premier Service Level Agreement—under …
