London Flagship Cinema Adds Blended Mirror-Screen Heritage Wall February 19, 2019 by Super User This is a blended mirror wall – video wall in the heart of the recently renovated Odeon cinema, just off London’s busy Leicester Square. The UK solutions provider Beaver Group provided all the hardware, software, installation, content creation and support for the flagship cinema. As well as integration and display of live film times, trailers …
DSE 2019 Booth Previews: Premier Mounts Shows How Digital Signage Deployed Anywhere Imaginable February 18, 2019 by Super User Premier Mounts – DSE Booth Number 1918 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Premier Mounts manufactures some of the best display mounts to enable digital signage. We have an engineering division focused around video walls and direct-view LED technology. Most recently, they have …
How To Maximize Dwell Time For Digital Signage February 18, 2019 by Kenneth Brinkmann Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix Websites are ranked by search engines on a number of factors, one of which is dwell time. This is the amount of time a person spends looking at a webpage or site before going back to the Search Engine Result Page (SERP). Understanding dwell time can be useful for crafting compelling …
Research Suggests Biggest Panel-Maker On Planet Is China’s BOE February 14, 2019 by Super User The conventional thinking would be that Samsung or perhaps LG would be the world’s biggest supplier of LCD TVs and flat panel displays, but new market research suggests it is Beijing-based panel maker BOE. Sigmaintell Consulting says that in 2018, BOE shipped 54.3 million TV panels, putting it well ahead of the shipping unit volume …
Missed ISE?: This Futuresource Report Gives A Solid Tech Rundown, And It’s Free February 14, 2019 by Super User If you were unable to get to Integrated Systems Europe, but very badly want and need to know what all was shown and demo’d there, you are in luck. The market research/consultancy firm Futuresource had several people fanned out in the many halls of the Amsterdam RAI, and has produced a comprehensive 63-page report on …
Dear DisplayCos: Get Your Set-Up Act Together! February 14, 2019 by Mitch Leathers Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler An Open Letter to Digital Signage Display Manufacturers: This morning, I looked at myself in the mirror while shaving, and saw a ton of new white hair. Tons of it, sticking up from my head. So I thought I would take this depressing opportunity to bitch a little more about …
Leyard’s R&D Head Sam Phenix Dishes On LED, OLED, VR And Everything Display February 13, 2019 by Super User I managed to squeeze in a few podcast interviews in and around ISE last week, and this is the first – a long-planned and finally realized talk with Sam Phenix, who is the VP of research and development for Planar and Leyard. That puts her in the middle of everything happening in the display market …
Why Can’t Digital Signage Hardware Protocols Make Sense? February 12, 2019 by Mitch Leathers Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler It’s been a while since Ive written anything for 16:9. I guess the muse did not come to me until just now. I’ve been keeping a low profile because I’ve just been very busy. I did not go to ISE this year. I wanted to go, I really did, but …
ISE 2019 Impressions From Day 3: Finally, Hall 8! February 8, 2019 by Super User Writing this on the plane and in lounges – heading back to Nova Scotia. Like a lot of people, based on what I was hearing and then seeing this morning at the airport, I punched out after three days. Thursday was busy-ish, but nothing like Wednesday. I finally, on day three, spent some meaningful time …
Lava Flows, Fluid Mechanics And The Deep Science Behind Video Wall Waterfalls February 6, 2019 by Super User If you’ve been to the Salesforce headquarters in San Francisco, or certain resort casinos, you will have seen and been blown away by giant virtual waterfalls that appear on LED walls and wash down, over and around things like entryways. It’s kind of amazing, and way beyond much of what you see on big digital …