Samsung’s New Smart Signs To Start Shipping With Tizen OS; Signagelive Says Good To Go September 1, 2016 by Super User Samsung is moving its new version of its Smart Signage platform for commercial displays over to its own operating system Tizen, with Tizen OS-powered displays commercially available to partners, resellers and end-users by the middle of this month. That means if you want to use the new version 4.0 release of SSP displays with a CMS, …
LG Adds Kiwi Firm To List Of Signage Firms Supporting Its Smart WebOS Displays September 1, 2016 by Super User Via ComputerWorld NZ The Auckland, NZ-based firm Labyrinth Solutions has developed a version of its Contrego digital signage CMS to run on LG’s WebOS-driven commercial digital signage panels. Labyrinth says the new System on Chip (SoC) media player, running Contegro, will do all the regular stuff, but will also do advanced digital signage functions like touch. “We are currently working …
Projects: 86-Foot LED Columns Create Digital Fence Slats In Denver Office Lobby August 31, 2016 by Super User The lobby and common area of the Wells Fargo Center has been transformed by a series of 86-foot-high floor-to-ceiling LED columns that create a series of gorgeous ambient art pieces. Developed by New York-based ESI Design, the programming is designed to give a sense of seeing Colorado’s natural beauty through fence slats. The custom content modes, says ESI, include: …
An LED Video Wall That Hand-Cranks Into Place August 30, 2016 by Super User I didn’t know Belgium’s display giant Barco now had super-thin, flexible LED displays, but the company has tweeted out a video show how fast and easy it is to hang a strip of 11mm pixel pitch LED in an open area (it is marketed as 10mm, but is 10.83mm, for those keeping score). The product was …
Norwich City FC Gets Shape-Shifting, Pivoting LED Board August 19, 2016 by Super User This is clever – a stadium LED board that changes orientation based on a schedule and type of content, and pivots so that it’s viewable from different angles around the grounds. The stadium screen is up at Carrow Road, the home of Norwich City Football Club, which plays in the 2nd tier of pro soccer in England (they …
Projects: Giant, Two-Sided, Pivoting Video Wall Lights Up in Scotland August 18, 2016 by Super User Via Display Daily I like the multi-purpose thinking behind this huge 32-screen video wall at the University of West Scotland in Paisley, near Glasgow. The UK-based systems integrator Saville was charged with bringing video wall and interactive technology solutions to a new, extended reception area in a campus building. The area is set up for everything from …
Size Matters In Digital Signage August 18, 2016 by Jeff Doud Guest Post: Stuart Armstrong, ComQi To get the most out digital signage in retail settings, keep two key words in mind: Size Matters. That doesn’t mean bigger is better. What matters is using screen sizes that suit the setting, dynamics and purpose. The display side of the digital signage business understandably focuses on screens that …
Digital Signage Goes To The Kitchen August 10, 2016 by Super User One of the guys at Rise Vision is so steeped in the digital signage business he has a slick interactive display up and running in his kitchen. Mat Meiers, the company’s lead creative designer, designed a screen layout to display calendar events, grocery lists, to do lists and family photos in his Kansas City-area kitchen. …
Orlando Airport Investing Big On Passenger-Facing Digital Signage August 9, 2016 by Super User Orlando International Airport continues to invest heavily in digital displays to improve the look and experience. The Orlando Sentinel has a story up about a $146 million makeover underway, and targeted to be complete by late next year, that will include a band of tiled displays behind the ticket counters at the departures level. The …
Digital Signage Gets Hosed Down August 3, 2016 by Super User Whether this is better termed a kiosk than digital signage could be debated endlessly, but what’s more interesting here is how a company has figured out a way to make projected capacitive touchscreen technology to work reliably in the crazily harsh environment of a car wash. Cleaning equipment manufacturer Nilfisk has developed with touch overlay maker …
