SoftwareCo RMG Adds LED Display Side To Business October 19, 2016 by Dave Haynes There are lots of digital signage display companies with software solutions, but it’s pretty rare to read about a signage CMS company touting a display solution. That, however, is what RMG Networks has announced. The Dallas-based company – kinda the v2 of the old Symon Communications, after some twists and turns from an acquisition – has announced RMG …
Projects: New DC Bloomberg Offices Greet Visitors With Dynamic Visuals October 18, 2016 by Dave Haynes Here’s a nice example of how to present real-time data in a visually interesting way. This is the elevator lobby of financial news giant Bloomberg’s new Washington, DC offices – the entrance flanked by a pair of video walls. The office is a hub for about 250 staff in the US capitol. Montreal’s Telecine, which has …
Freshwater Digital Packages $125 Monthly For Turnkey Digital Signage Solution October 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes The digital signage business seems to inexorably going turnkey – with most vendors I chat with saying that’s the ask and end-users saying that’s how they want to see things play out. On a broad scale, that means integrators and the largest software firms are offering a full range of capabilities in-house or through sponsorships. …
Samsung Starts Shipping New P Series Of Tizen-powered Smart Displays October 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes Samsung has launched a new P-Series line of smart signage displays that are the first shipping with the Tizen operating system – the OS the company is shifting most or all of its information devices over to. The series has seven models, including 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays with 700 nits, 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays …
NEC Makes Its Displays Smart Using Raspberry Pi October 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes NEC Display Solutions will start marketing and shipping commercial display panels early next year that that have low-cost Raspberry Pi computer modules in them, effectively making them a new variation on smart digital signage displays. This is a notable shift for NEC, which has stayed out of the embedded system on chip display business that Samsung, …
NanoLumens Adds Super Fine Pitch, Front-Serviceable LED Display To Lineup October 12, 2016 by Dave Haynes Atlanta-based NanoLumens made its name with lightweight, flexible indoor LED displays, but like other display manufacturers has in the past two years gone hard after the fine pixel pitch LED market. It’s hard to win on price against a sea of Chinese manufacturers, so Nano is marketing based on slightly more esoteric attributes like performance, serviceability and footprint. …
Pic: Here’s A Shot Of That Almost-Endless Video Wall At Orlando Airport September 29, 2016 by Dave Haynes I wrote yesterday about the 1,500+ foot, one by very many video wall put in at Orlando’s airport, behind the airline counters/ This a pic from one of the vendors as it was going up. Won’t say who just in case that violates some PR agreement. In two words: very nice.
AT&T’s New San Francisco Flagship Includes Giant “Fluid Art” Digital Bulkhead September 28, 2016 by Dave Haynes The new store, at 1 Powell Street, is next to the popular trolley cable car turnaround area. It is AT&T’s largest retail store in the U.S., and will serve as the company’s West Coast flagship. This historic San Francisco building, built in 1908, has been restored back to its original Baroque architectural design. The store design and merchandising elements draft …
Orlando Airport Installing 1,561-foot Continuous Video Wall At Airline Counters September 28, 2016 by Dave Haynes Orlando International Airport is in the process of putting in some 700 55-inch ultra-thin-bezel videowall displays in the departures area behind airline counters to create a continuous 1,561-foot digital display wall. The airport authority is putting another 350 in double-sided overhead videowalls intended for wayfinding from the check-in areas to concessions and other services leading to security checkpoints, …
Face Pattern Tech Used In Fun Interactive GMC Campaign September 26, 2016 by Dave Haynes The whole serve-content-based-on-who/what-is-in-front-of-a-screen thing has never really taken off for the video analytics people, but here’s a fun campaign that does a nice job with the technology. A campaign for a GM vehicle used face pattern detection technology to pick up the gender, facial expression, age and composition of the passing audience and then serve branded content …
