Buy Home-Grown, Sure, But Let’s Not Fear The Boogeyman April 20, 2017 by Mitch Leathers Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler I love when people reply to my guest posts here. I really enjoy knowing that someone is reading what I have to say, and that they have something to either add, thank me for, or disagree. The experience gives a nice “high” to my ego. Do take into account that …
NanoLumens’ CEO Cope Pushes Trump’s Buy American Case For LED Digital Signage Business April 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes Given that NanoLumens CEO Rick Cope is a retired United States Marine Corps officer and has an old Stinger missile in his office, it will be of no great surprise that his political views may tilt a bit to the right and that he supports U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order to buy American-made goods. …
Peerless-AV Adds New Set Of Customizable Indoor Kiosks April 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes I tend to think of Peerless-AV as one of the big guys when it comes to display mounting solutions that come off walls and bolt to ceilings, but the Chicago-based company also has a pretty broad set of enclosure systems that serve as freestanding kiosks. If you’ve been to a trade show lately, you’ll know there …
What Indoor LEDs Now Look Like From Behind April 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes The connector cables and fiddly bits seem to be going or gone from the latest generations of indoor LED displays. This is the back of an AOTO display that was in the company’s booth at InfoComm China. I watched a couple of guys tear down a big LED wall used for a press conference in a …
Impressions From InfoComm China 2017 April 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes Back from Beijing after several days spent talking and walking at InfoComm China, and waaaay too many hours on my butt flying home. Thanks first to John Wang and Amanda Sung of IAdea, and the rest of the folks from the Digital Signage Multimedia Alliance (of Taiwan) for working with InfoComm to have me over …
InfoComm China: An LCD Video Wall With Kinda Sorta No Visible Seams April 12, 2017 by Dave Haynes Probably the most interesting thing I saw in a quick walk around several halls at InfoComm China in Beijing on Wednesday was a Shanghai company called Pallas, which has tech that does a really good job of making the seams in LCD video walls visually go away. It uses something called active bezel tech – …
Taking Advertising In-House? Part 2 April 12, 2017 by Emily Carroll Guest Post: Brett Farley, NanoLumens Part 2: The Considerations of That In-House Network Selling the Media There are a number of different ways to sell your media network to advertisers and a clear strategy allowing for all the variances to drive toward your end game of maximizing your sales revenue need to be considered. Some …
How To Impress Your Audience With An Interactive Video Wall April 7, 2017 by Dave Haynes Guest Post: Tim Griffin, Userful Video walls are everywhere and companies are looking for creative ways to use them. Gone are the days of slapping together a grid of a few displays and playing content around them. Customers are looking for artistic layouts, interactive content, dynamic content switching, immersive experiences, and more. All too often, …
Projects: Swedish Payments Company Visualizes Business In Real Time April 6, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’m not seeing as much data visualization as I might have expected by now on large video walls – given how great dataviz creative can solve the dual problems of keeping content fresh while also controlling content budgets. But here’s a great example of dataviz in action in the lobby of Stockholm-based online payment company …
Projects: Louisiana Wellness Center Spans 12K Video Across Three Walls April 5, 2017 by Dave Haynes The new Education Center at the Wellness Center of Thibodaux Regional, in Thibodaux, Louisiana, greets visitors with a 17-minute video that showcases the native beauty of Louisiana across three 4K video walls. The multi-screen video experience developed by VisionQuest Design & Production of Atlanta features nature scenes, landmarks, plantations, and the Bayou, among other local …
