M&A: Digital Jukebox/DOOH Network AMI Changes Financial Backers December 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes The digital jukebox and digital OOH media firm AMI Entertainment Network (or AMI) has exchanged financial backers, with the LA-based private equity firm Coral Tree Partners buying into from the investment firm The Gores Group. Started in 1909 under the name National Automatic Music Co., AMI has, of course, evolved through the years and now …
Dead-Simple Signage Application For Health Care Reduces Interactive To A Button Pad December 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes There has never been a shortage of whiz-bangery offered up to make simple visual display tasks more difficult, and probably like many people in this industry, I have seen demos of screen interactions that were portrayed as seamless but in fact just added steps and complexity. I think, particularly, of applications that required pulling out …
22Miles Adds Space Booking Capabilities To Video Call Giant Zoom’s Workplace App Marketplace December 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes There are a lot of displays in workplace settings that are only used here and there for their primary task – usually presentations and video conference in meeting spaces. So there’s a movement towards multi-purposing these capital investments by doing more with them, including turning the screens into workplace messaging and guidance tools. Software companies …
LED Video Display Market Saw Limited Growth in Q3 2022: Omdia December 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes Omdia researcher Tay Taehoon Kim has pushed out a summary of highlights from his company’s 3rd quarter 2022 analysis of the direct view LED market, suggesting demand is up, but something less than booming. In 3Q22, although the direct-view LED display market grew by 10.7% compared to the previous quarter and 9.8% compared to the …
E Ink Puts Color Screens Into Mass Production December 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes Color e-paper displays have been around for many years now, but adoption has been limited – something that likely owes to their cost and the slow progression of the technology. That may change now that the primary manufacturer of e-paper displays – the US/Taiwan company E Ink – has gone into mass production for color …
EU Commissioner Makes Personal Appearance From Afar Using Hologram-ish LED Light Stick Array December 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes I think using those shower stall-like transparent LCD set-ups to enable personal appearances by people who can’t actually get to the destination is pretty compelling, but I’m always thrown off a bit by how the subject is very visibly encased and confined in the enclosure. So it’s interesting to see how the UK company HYPERVSN …
Mall Uses Displays, Creative To Create Virtual Elevator Ride For Kids To See Santa December 12, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Jay Leedy at Sony for pointing out … And a note … it’s not clear this is running this year. It might be be news from a few years ago, as a reader suggests in the comments. Whatever the case, the application is interesting and well done. AND … it may not …
Sony Has Developed Its Own Device Management Toolset For Its Smart Pro Displays December 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes Anyone in digital signage or pro AV who has ever had ops in his or her title will know easy and pretty user experiences are nice, but what can really matter in selecting the right software and hardware solution is boring stuff like device management. Some CMS software companies have always had it, while many …
Sharp NEC Adds Public-Ready COB Fine Pitch LEDs To Line-up December 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes Sharp NEC Display Solutions has added a new series a fine-pitch indoor LED displays that make an important nod to challenges of very large, very expensive video walls around people and their things. The new NEC FC Series uses Chip On Board, also called flip chip, LED technology that offers greater anti-collision, anti-electrostatic, anti-water drop, …
Pickcel Develops On-Screen Promotions, Booking Capability For Emerging “Salon Suite” Industry December 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Indian CMS software company Pickcel has developed an interesting application aimed at what it says is a new spin on wellness and beauty salons – suites in the U.S. and Canada that are licensed to a single specialist. The company has developed a custom solution for My Salon Suite, a franchise operator that has …
