For LED Screens Within Public Reach, The Future Is Hardened November 7, 2018 by Super User There’s no question that direct view LED displays have seen a huge uptick in marketplace adoption in the last couple of years, but one thing that’s been holding back even broader adoption is durability. In simple terms, conventionally-made LED displays are fragile. That’s not much of an issue if the displays are up on a …
The Value Of Protecting Your Digital Signage Displays November 5, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Daniel Waldron, Armagard Protecting your digital signage is a necessity. The risks and consequences of not protecting your displays include weather damage, vandalism and theft. Knowing what your digital signage is up against underlines the value of protecting your displays. With that in mind, here’s the case for safeguarding your digital signage. 1. …
Cinemex Using Creative Video Walls To Elevate Moviehouse Experiences November 1, 2018 by Super User Here’s a of glimpses at the ambitious and interesting digital signage implementations happening with the Cinemex moviehouse chain in Mexico. Across the 300 site chain, Mexican integrator Multimedia Corp. has put in 8,000 screens driven by some 1,300 players. The company is a longtime Scala reseller/solutions provider. At times, the content is also sync’d, even …
IAC Refreshes Giant NYC HQ Lobby Video Wall, Using 1.4mm LED October 31, 2018 by Super User This is the second iteration of a massive video wall in the lobby of the NYC-based internet media company IAC. The first version went up in 2012, using Prysm laser phosphor display cubes. Six years on, V2 uses 1.4mm pixel pitch LED modules. The 117×10-foot wall was designed, engineered and integrated by Video Corporation of America …
Rich Ventura Goes Deep On ALP – NEC’s New Retail Analytics Platform October 31, 2018 by Super User NEC Display has been fairly quietly involved in analytics for a long time now, but it just got very serious and noisy about that capability, with the launch of something called ALP – which is short for Analytics Learning Platform. It’s a retail intelligence program that uses cameras and other sensors, AI, big data, cloud …
DC Arena Uses Tiled Screens To Change Concession Branding On Demand October 29, 2018 by Super User These are concessions at the renovated Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, home to NHL hockey and NBA basketball. What’s interesting to me is how the digital signage is not just the menu boards, but also the headers for the concessions – which allows the venue operator to rebrand a stand pretty much on the …
Smart Displays On The Rise: Updated Report On SoC In Digital Signage October 29, 2018 by Super User About 18 months ago, Sixteen:Nine first looked at the state of smart displays and raised the question of whether digital signage displays with embedded System on Chip (SoC) players inside represented the future path for the industry. In early 2017, almost every sign pointed to widespread adoption. Today, it is clear that adoption is happening. …
IAdea’s Small All-In-Signboards Can Now Run Samsung’s MagicINFO CMS October 24, 2018 by Super User Taiwan-based hardware manufacturer IAdea has done an interesting partnership with Samsung that sees IAdea’s small signboard displays pre-loaded with Samsung’s own content management software, MagicINFO. It’s interesting because Samsung has for many, many years tried to somehow have its own free-ish CMS software available to display customers, while also developing partnerships with software companies that …
Rick Wood On The Eight Second Rule For Transit Displays, And E-Paper At Your Bus Stop October 24, 2018 by Super User Rick Wood’s company was founded to bring some order and logic to how mass transport systems present information – like routes and schedules – to passengers. It was a tall order for CHK America – because many or most transport authorities had their own way of doing things, and not that many were particularly good …
LED Lobby Feature Wall Centerpiece of Reimagined Miami Office Tower October 23, 2018 by Super User This is the lobby of 100 Biscayne Boulevard in Miami – a commercial office tower just across the road from the big Bayfront urban park and entertainment area downtown. The 30-storey office block’s facelift includes a direct view LED feature wall that wraps around the entry to the elevator lobby. Not totally sure of the …
