Florida Organic Grocer Fills New Store With LCD Ribbon Displays July 17, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting application of natively-manufactured LCDs – as opposed to cutting and re-manufacturing 16:9 screens – as ribbon displays in a small-ish organic grocery in Naples, Florida. The Food and Thought 2 store has a series of single and two-sided displays around the store, from larger-format versions suspended from the ceiling to shelf-edge …
Brussels Airport Transitions FIDS Video Walls From LCD To Fine Pitch LED July 14, 2023 by Dave Haynes It was always just going to be a matter of time when fine pitch LED costs would reduce to a point that they would fully supplant LCD-based video walls, and we appear to be there even with pedestrian use-cases like FIDS displays at airports. The airport in Brussels, Belgium has flight information (FIDS) videowalls that …
Dutch Start-Up Mashes Up Large Format E-Paper Displays And Newspaper Front Pages As Functional Art July 13, 2023 by Dave Haynes As spotted in TechCrunch … E Ink displays have been touted as replacements for a lot of different monochrome and basic color print products, like transit schedules and posters. But now there’s a company selling a 32-inch e-paper display that shows the front pages of newspapers. My first 20 years of working were at daily …
DSSE: Major Display Vendors Relate Shifts On Software, Manufacturing July 13, 2023 by Dave Haynes Last week’s excellent Digital Signage Summit Europe in Munich presented a problem of having to decide between which of two concurrent sessions to sit in on, and I missed what looks – in hindsight – like a good one on the display market. Fortunately, Sixteen:Nine’s content partners at invidis – which also presents the DSSE conference …
Here’s A Chiller Fridge Media Solution That Does The Job But Doesn’t Bust Budgets July 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s a very different, and probably way less costly and involved demo of going at the idea of adding digital signage to chiller fridges. While companies like Cooler Screens have gone down the path of retrofitting the heavy, expensive and custom-sized chiller doors in high foot traffic retail (and run into a big problem), Fargo, …
Bahrain Star-Up Touts Autonomous Wandering Ad Screen Robots July 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes I was amazed at a couple of recent trade shows to still see companies marketing an ad solution that involves screens that are attached to backpacks and harnesses worn by people, the displays looming over the heads of the humans, or running on the backpacks. It’s an idea and effort that’s been around for maybe …
Global Digital Signage Displays Business Expected To Surpass $18.6 Billion In 2023: Omdia July 7, 2023 by Dave Haynes The research firm Omdia has pushed out some information nuggets from a paywalled report about key themes observed last month at InfoComm in Orlando, and suggesting the digital signage display market will be an $18 billion-plus business in 2023. This year’s display products showcased a wide range of use cases for LCD, OLED, and direct-view …
That Giant Las Vegas LED Sphere Lights Up For First Time: Pix And Video July 7, 2023 by Brad Koerner Guest Post: Brad Koerner On July 4th, the massive video screen on the exterior sphere of the MSG Las Vegas Sphere (or see the sphere’s Wikipedia page) was activated for the first time. Here’s some essential info from Wikipedia: Upon its completion, the Sphere will be 366 feet (112 m) high and 516 feet (157 m) wide at its …
Hollister’s Live Beach Scene Video Wall In Munich Still Active After 10 Years, And It Looks It! July 2, 2023 by Dave Haynes Just a shade more than 10 years ago, shoppers lined up outside a new Hollister store in central Munich to see the California-inspired apparel and marvel at the huge LCD video wall just inside the store glass, showing live video of the Pacific’s waves rolling in Huntington Beach. Ten years later, the screens are still …
Vericast, Intel Partner On Context-Driven Retail Media Networks Solution June 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes The marketing solutions firm Vericast has partnered with Intel on what’s described as a new, programmatically-enabled digital in-store retail media network, having come out of a trial deployment in 50 c-stores. The solution pairs Vericast’s “intelligent targeting technology” and Intel’s Edge software platforms “to deliver contextually relevant advertising and product information throughout the shopping experience. …
