Mark Ossel Explains The Whys And Hows Of The Global Signage Alliance, And Its Ties To Samsung March 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes When I was doing my initial recon walk through the many halls of ISE a few weeks back, I went by a stand that was highlighting something called the Global Signage Alliance, which was unfamiliar to me and made me curious. The stand’s occupants weren’t there, and I was on the go, so I never …
17-Year-Old NEC Screens Still Happily Working Away At Vienna’s Airport February 28, 2023 by Dave Haynes Photo: Oliver Bauer, Sharp/NEC When it comes to flat panel displays, the general rule of thumb seems to be that they’ll last roughly five years before the screens will be due for replacement. So it is interesting to read about some displays that have been hard at work for 17 years … and counting. Our …
IT Giant Insight Uses LG’s Big Stretch LCDs For Business Communications At New Phoenix HQ February 28, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting and mostly different approach to messaging for staff and guests on a corporate campus – a set of 88-inch stretch LCDs set in portrait mode along three different hallways in the Phoenix-area headquarters of the IT company Insight Enterprises. Officially named Insight Way, the company’s new Gensler-designed headquarters is a 200,000-square-foot facility …
Skinny Bar-Type LCDs Help Guests Navigate New Downtown LA Destination February 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes Wayfinding and directory digital totems are pretty common in outdoor retail, leisure and transport destinations, and almost all of them look kinda sorta the same – except for these new ones deployed around a new dining destination in LA. Instead of high-bright 55-inch displays in portrait mode, these ones are skinny 37-inch stretch displays, with …
Pro Flat Panel Demand In US Softened Q3-4 2022: PMA Research February 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes LA-area research firm PMA Research says demand for commercial flat panel displays softened in the second half of last year as supply chain issues cleared up and order backlogs were all fulfilled. PMA, which describes itself as the worldwide market information experts on large displays, released that summary out of its latest half-yearly All-Displays sell-through …
PPDS Studios Opening Up In EU, UK And US To Support Sellers, Inspire End-Users February 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes The company marketing Philips digital signage and related pro AV solutions has started building and opening a series of showroom/demo/meeting spaces across Europe and North America under the handle PPDS Studios. Intended to support partners like system integrators, consultants, distributors, AV/IT designers/architects), as well as end customers, PPDS Studios have already opened in Amsterdam, Madrid, …
Cannabis Retailer Uses Short-Throw Projection, Giant Tiled Menu Array, To Drive Buyer Experience February 23, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is one of the more ambitious uses of digital signage technology I’ve seen in the still-emerging cannabis retailing sector – an order counter that uses short-throw projection on a back wall and what appears to be 10 flat panels tiled together as a menu display ribbon up above. Norton, Massachusetts-based CANA Craft Cannabis opened …
R&D Work Suggests Metasurfaces Could Supplant LCD; Boosting Resolution, Halving Power Needs February 23, 2023 by Dave Haynes University researchers in the UK and Australia are collaborating on the development of a new kind of engineered material that would be much thinner than LCD technology, boost resolution 10-fold, and use half the power. Researchers at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, the Australian National University (ANU), and the University of New South Wales …
KC’s New Airport Has Lots Of Digital, Including Real-Time Toilet Availability Screens February 22, 2023 by Dave Haynes Kansas City gets a new airport terminal next week, and the airport’s operators have published a lengthy preview video that takes viewers through the $1.5 billion facility. I mention this because like a lot of new or refurbished airport terminals going up these days, there’s a lot of digital being used. As noted a lot …
Delphi Display Systems Acquired By Another Restaurant-Focused Tech Firm, Toast February 22, 2023 by Dave Haynes Delphi Display Systems, which has been mainly focused on a variety of menu and ordering screens for the QSR sector, has been acquired by Toast, a Boston cloud-based software company that likens its products to a restaurant operating system. “As the needs of guests rapidly evolve and the importance of developing incremental revenue streams grows, …
