Another Shape-Shifting LED Screen Surfaces, This Time In Malaysia October 28, 2019 by Dave Haynes You’d think when a top five global brand has a dismal failure with its splashy, expensive and very high profile robotic LED display, that would get around to the potential user base and put the brakes on other deep-pocketed companies trying the same thing. Apparently not … This is somewhere in Malaysia – probably Kuala …
Sharp’s UK Wing Bucks SoC Trend; Reselling BitVu’s CMS And Teeny Standalone Player October 28, 2019 by Dave Haynes In the last two or three years there has been a pretty big shift by the main display manufacturers to bring CMS software companies on to their “smart” signage screens, so it’s interesting to see Sharp’s UK Business wing announcing it is partnering to re-sell a platform that has a separate, proprietary standalone player. Sharp …
Those Madly-Spinning Light Wands Find Logical Homes At Retail End-Caps October 9, 2019 by Dave Haynes I’m not much of a fan of those madly-spinning LED light wands that kinda sorta do 3D holographic images, because eye candy tends to have a short shelf life and things that spin eventually fail. But the UK company that is the market leader for the tech may have found a good logical home for …
DataVisual’s Tech Tour Makes Stop Near New World HQ October 8, 2019 by Dave Haynes I joke with industry people that my new home city of Halifax is a bit of a black hole when it comes to digital signage activity, having moved here in 2018 from Toronto, which has long been an epicenter of the business. The only directly active company in the vicinity is ScreenScape, and those folks …
SignageOS Launches Benchmark And Testing Center For System On Chip Devices October 7, 2019 by Dave Haynes The team at signageOS, the US/Czech company that has written middleware to bridge CMS software and system on chip media players, has started a research center that tests and benchmarks the wide variety of available devices. The first report out of the signageOS Research Center focused on “smart” digital signage displays running Samsung’s SOC hardware …
Daniel Griffin Of Userful Talks Video Walls And AV Over Networks October 2, 2019 by Dave Haynes Like a lot of people in the digital signage industry, I tend to think about video walls in terms of the display hardware, and what’s running on those big beautiful screens. I know precious little about what’s happening behind the wall to ensure it all looks good. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from …
Christie Goes Into The Back-Story Of Its LED MicroTiles October 1, 2019 by Dave Haynes When I first saw Christie’s second-generation MicroTiles back this past winter at ISE in Amsterdam, my first reaction was probably like many, as in: “Those are LEDs, not MicroTiles!” They looked good and had a different structural set-up, but I wasn’t getting it. MicroTiles, as I knew them, were small display cubes unrelated to LED. …
Samsung Brings Prismview’s LED Sales Into Mother Ship October 1, 2019 by Dave Haynes Samsung has rolled the sales and marketing teams of Prismview – the LED company that grew up as Yesco – into its overall display sales team. Utah-based Prismview – which got the new name after it was acquired in 2015 by Samsung – had been operating as a subsidiary until this change, announced today. Prismview …
More Hacked Signs And More Naughty Content – This Time In Detroit September 30, 2019 by Dave Haynes A reader pointed out a second digital signage screen hack from this weekend, this one on a digital OOH highway billboard in suburban Detroit. The big digital board was, like one in Auckland, NZ, showing porn video material. The Detroit Free Press reports it happened late Saturday night and the racy material was up for …
Screens Above NZ Shoe Store Hacked To Run Porn Video September 30, 2019 by Dave Haynes If the need to lock down a public-facing digital signage display wasn’t obvious already, here’s an example from New Zealand of what happens when operators either don’t, or don’t do it well enough. The New Zealand Herald is reporting that someone – presumably hackers – penetrated the media play-out device that drives content on the …
