Glasses-Free 3D Goes 4K February 6, 2014 by Super User I was wondering if next week’s Digital Signage Expo would have any companies there still trying to get the industry interested in glasses-free 3D – a tech that seems to move people quickly from amazed to ambivalent. Turns out there is, and it’s a bit different. Buffalo-based pro AV distributor Stampede Presentation Products will be …
DSE Disrupted Tech Talk Approaching Sold Out February 5, 2014 by Super User The Digital Signage Expo team tells me the seminar on Disrupted Technology that I’m chairing/moderating/referee’ing a week today ion Las Vegas is approaching sold out. There were 100 registrants as of today and the room can take a dozen or so more. So … let’s sell it out!!! The session is Wed. Feb. 12 at …
Preset Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Multiband February 4, 2014 by Super User Last but by no means least in our series of profiles of Preset Mixer Sponsors is Multiband, which in very broad strokes does digital signage deployments across the US and into Canada. I asked Matt Weldon, the National Sales Director for Multiband Subscriber Services, to readers and particularly Mixer attendees an idea of what his …
Preset Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Capital Networks February 4, 2014 by Super User I go back 15 years now with Bil Trainor and his crew at Capital Networks, most of them the same people. Loyal bunch, which says a lot about the company and the guy who runs it. Capital Networks is a Toronto-area provider of dynamic digital signage software solutions for digital signage, digital display networks, digital …
Seenspire Heading To Vegas For Three Creative Awards, Less Than Year After Opening Up February 4, 2014 by Super User I’m looking forward to meeting a bunch of people next week that I know by phone, e-mail and Skype, but have never talked to in person. One of them is Sam Mekonen, a co-founder of Seenspire. It’s a Belgian company that does a really interesting, somewhat rare blend of automated content feeds for signage networks, …
Preset Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Digital Signage Expo February 3, 2014 by Super User The Digital Signage Expo trade show has itself been a sponsor of the annual Preset Mixer, which is really cool. When Chris Gibbs, the guy who runs DSE, approached me about sponsorship he said the mixer was now firmly part of the DSE experience, and the show wanted to support it. That backing started in …
Mixer Host Profile: The Preset Group February 3, 2014 by Super User The annual Preset Group Mixer at DSE actually pre-dates the host company, as the first mixer was a loosely organized gathering in 2009 among the flaming fire pools, brass rails and red velvet of the Peppermill Lounge in Las Vegas. I did that one under the auspices of Digital Out-of-home Professionals and Executives Society, otherwise …
Mixer Sponsor Profile: NEC Display January 30, 2014 by Super User NEC Display is a returning sponsor of the annual Preset Group Mixer at DSE, and also one of the bigger exhibitors and supporters of trade show week and sector, as a whole. I asked NEC’s VP Marketing Ashley Flaska to give me a rundown on what’s up this year, and what trade show-goers should look …
Mixer Sponsor Profile: Freshwater Digital Media Partners January 25, 2014 by Super User The Preset Group Mixer at DSE has grown into a pretty ambitious undertaking, that takes a lot of time and money to pull together. It doesn’t happen without sponsors and one of the ways we try to say thanks and recognize the help is through sponsor profiles on this blog. First up is a new …
What Are You Doing About Moore’s Law? January 25, 2014 by SteveSchildwachter I’ve been going over my end-of-year financials, and looking back over the three years since I bought my company, Unified Brand. Running the numbers made me realize that none of the four main things I buy and then re-sell all the time in digital signage – media players, software, licenses and content – have gone …
