InfoComm Booth Profile: Baanto June 12, 2015 by Super User InfoComm is just a few sleeps away and I suspect some of the tech who pull the booths together are already sweating it out down in Orlando. Toronto-based touchscreen specialists Baanto has a crew going down, and you’ll find the company at booth 5742. Here’s why John La, the company’s Director, Product Marketing, says attendees should …
UK’s Crystal Display Launches See-Through LED Digital Signage Windows June 12, 2015 by Super User UK-based Crystal Display Systems has launched an interesting spin on LED curtain walls – tighter resolution windows that can be cut to any size and used on shops or inside buildings as decorative dividers. The transparent LED windows are made up of horizontal slats of LEDs that when all lit up can produce decent looking …
Projects: CAA Store Lounge Gets Wrap-around Digital Wall June 11, 2015 by Super User Maybe five minutes up the road from my world HQ and Live Bait shop is a new Canadian Automobile Association office, with a shiny new, very nice 90-degree video wall. The CAA store just opened this spring in Burlington, and the centrepiece for this new CAA concept store design is a nine-screen wrap-around video wall. There are …
Projects: Toronto’s Scotia Plaza Refreshes Concourse Level With Digital Displays June 11, 2015 by Super User Toronto’s Scotia Plaza is the head office building for one of the big five banks in Canada, and located on the underground walkway system that inter-connects most of the city’s downtown financial district. On that “PATH” level, the bank has always had a set of TV monitors showing financial news, but the bank has worked …
Projects: YCD, Intel, NEC Team Up With Coke On Cinema Offer June 11, 2015 by Super User Companies like Christie and Barco have business units and focused efforts going after the cinema lobby business, as do a few software companies, but a consortium is getting help from Coca-Cola to market its blended solution. The global soda brand is working with YCD Multimedia, NEC, Intel and Littlebit Technology on what a signage and experiential offer …
Israel’s DigiGage Goes Big On Digital In Elevators June 11, 2015 by Super User My introduction to digital signage many years ago involved what remains one of the toughest kinds of installations for screens and PCs. Elevators are nothing but bumps and jolts, dust, grease and carbon, spiking voltage and wildly expensive elevator mechanics. I project-managed and cut the POs on about $8 million worth of elevator screens one …
Samsung Shows Pair Of Slick Transparent OLED Displays At Asia Retail Show June 10, 2015 by Super User Samsung is at Retail Asia Expo in Hong Kong this week, and happily showing off a pair of new OLED displays aimed at signage applications. The more impressive of the two is a mirror OLED display panel that has a greater than 75% reflectance level, which Samsung says is at least 50 percent better reflectance than …
InfoComm Booth Profile: Peerless-AV June 2, 2015 by Super User Display hardware specialist Peerless-AV will be at InfoComm, and this is why company president John Potts says people in the digital signage industry need to come by booth 3401 in a couple of weeks. 1 – Why do people going to InfoComm need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Some top “must …
InfoComm Booth Profile: Philips June 2, 2015 by Super User Here’s what Philips has to say about its InfoComm 2015 trade show plans, via North America Marketing Manager Stephen Shao: 1 – Why do people going to InfoComm need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? InfoComm attendees should come by the Philips booth (#4689) because we’re premiering some really cool …
E Ink Goes Yellow June 2, 2015 by Super User A typical flat panel monitor supports millions of colors, so it’s a little funny to see a press release celebrating how a display now supports yellow. We Did Yellow!!! But in the case of electronic ink, it’s a big deal. E Ink has announced its Spectra shelf displays can now do black, white, red and now …
