E-Paper Displays Touted As Low-Cost, Low-Profile Solution For Campus Safety Messaging May 2, 2018 by Dave Haynes Digital signage in schools at every level is not new, but Grand Rapids, Michigan-based solutions provider Freshwater Digital has developed a very different spin built around e-paper displays and school safety messaging. The company says it has been inundated with requests to find solutions to bolster school safety with tools inside classrooms. The need, unfortunately, has …
Sharp Broadens Options For Smart Signage With Two New 24/7 Android-based Displays May 2, 2018 by Dave Haynes Sharp has expanded the range of 24/7 commercial displays shipping with built-in system on chip media players and Android. The company has added 39.5-inch and 49.5-inch PN-M series displays that ship with built-in SoCs driven by Arm Cortex-A17 quad core processors, with 2 GB memory and 8 GB storage. The monitors are 50% brighter than the company’s …
Christie Debuts Extremely Narrow Bezel Video Wall LCDs May 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes Display tech companies have not entirely given up on marketing narrow bezel LCDs for video walls, even though the prevailing wisdom is that fine pitch LED will take over as prices drop. There’s still a significant gap, though, unless you want to cross your fingers, toes and eyes and buy from a Shenzhen company with …
Why Bolt On A Screen When You Can Zip Tie It In Place? April 30, 2018 by Dave Haynes A reader who travels a lot doing PROPER digital signage deployments pays attention to the varying quality of work done by others and spotted this in a bar at Charlotte, NC’s international airport. The screen is being held to the support column by a zip tie, and that’s it. An injury, and then a lawsuit, …
Mark Stross Of ANC On Bringing The Spectacle Of Sports And Live Events To Digital OOH April 25, 2018 by Dave Haynes ANC got its start about 20 years ago as a rotational signage company that primarily serviced the pro sports business, and through the years, ANC has grown into a big tech services provider that’s been putting in the visual systems for many arenas and stadiums. If you see a big center-hung set of LED boards …
SICOM Picks Up Jamba Juice’s Digital Menu Board Business April 20, 2018 by Dave Haynes They don’t get a lot of attention, or make much if any marketing noise in the digital signage industry, but a Philly area company called SICOM is quietly building up a nice portfolio of digital display clients in the QSR space. SICOM has announced that Jamba Juice has selected it as the exclusive provider of digital menu boards …
Projects: Mosaic Video Walls At Stella McCartney Flagships April 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is the video wall set-up being put in at 11 Stella McCartney flagship stores across Europe, the US and Asia, highlighting the spring and summer collections for the fashion house. UK integrator Freehand put the project together, developing visual interesting mosaics instead of just grouping them in big rectangles in the high street windows. …
LED And The Perils Of Public Reach April 17, 2018 by Dave Haynes Medium to fine pitch LED displays can have tremendous visual impact in the right environment, but the thing customers should always bear in mind is that the little surface-mounted LED chips that produce the colored light are fragile – attached to their substrates with microscopic wiring. In plain terms, if they’re within public reach – …
Struggling German Visual Solutions Firm Eyevis Acquired By Chinese LED Giant Leyard April 17, 2018 by Dave Haynes The big LED display manufacturer Leyard, based in China, has acquired the German video wall and display cube company eyevis – giving the company a greater sales and marketing foothold in western Europe and into the Middle East. The announcement names both Leyard and Portland, OR-based Planar (which Leyard acquired) as the companies leading the …
How We Demystified Shelf Digital Tags, And Put Them To Use April 16, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Matt Downey, Freshwater Digital A couple of years ago my company started researching and contacting e-paper (or ESL manufacturers, as they’re commonly referred to) to learn more about the requirements, capabilities, and costs of digital shelf tags. We’re a digital signage solutions company to the core, but this new technology intrigued us. Living …
