Tickets Disappearing, But Still Room For 2-3 Sponsors For Digital Signage Awards Lunch At ISE January 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Awards take place at ISE Amsterdam, immediately after the last session of the DS Summit on Wednesday, February 7. There will be a 45-minute presentation to the Winners followed by a buffet lunch that is ideal for relaxed networking. If you haven’t already booked as a delegate to attend the Digital Signage …
Take A Video Stroll Through LG’s Amazing OLED Canyon At CES January 11, 2018 by Dave Haynes Here’s a video and some good pix showing the LG OLED canyon that leads into the company’s mega-booth at CES this week. The OLED Canyon has 90 concave and 156 convex open frame screens. Visitors walk through a 28m long twisting canyon trail and experience images produced by a total of two billion self-emissive OLED …
The 16:9 DSE Mixer Is Back For 2018 January 10, 2018 by Dave Haynes It’s a new year and people are starting to get into trade show season mode and plan their schedules for things like DSE, and the emails are already coming in asking about the annual Sixteen:Nine DSE Mixer. Yes, it’s on again. Same format. Same location. Same timeframe – the evening before the trade show floor …
DSE Lookahead: Globalshop On Same Week, Wrong City, But Bar Show On Next Door January 10, 2018 by Dave Haynes A friend pointed out that Globalshop this year is again on the same week as Digital Signage Expo, but unlike last year, the cab ride over to that show for DSE is a bit more involved. Last year, the big retail merchandising show was at the south end of the strip at the Mandalay Bay …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: ISE Director Mike Blackman Previews The 2018 Show January 10, 2018 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is now just a matter of weeks away, with the doors to the massive pro AV trade show in Amsterdam set to open on February 6th. The show has broken attendance records in recent years, and it looks very much like the 2018 number will exceed last year’s count of 73,000-plus. ISE …
Samsung Now Marketing Micro LED Technology; Jumbo 146-Inch TV Showing At CES January 8, 2018 by Dave Haynes Samsung confirmed rumors today and announced a massive, modular MicroLED TV called The Wall. The easiest way to think of it is a fine pitch LED wall for the consumer market. The announced configuration for CES this week is 146-inches diagonal, but it is positioned as something that can be made bigger, smaller or a …
LG To Show 8K OLED At CES; Samsung Rumored To Show Micro LED TV January 2, 2018 by Dave Haynes Numerous tech blogs are reporting that LG will be showing an 8K OLED display this year at CES. The 88-inch display has a resolution of 7680×4320, which is 33 million+ pixels. “The successful development of the world’s first 8K OLED display is a milestone for the 8K era and underscores the exciting potential of OLED,” …
Women Of Digital Signage Formed As Industry Networking Group January 2, 2018 by Dave Haynes One quick look around an industry event is all you need to conclude the digital signage industry is like almost all tech-based industries – lopsidedly male in overall headcounts, and particularly at executive levels. I don’t think the gender seesaw will get balanced in my working lifetime, but it is s l o o …
Looking Ahead To ISE 2018 December 27, 2017 by Dave Haynes The next big industry-ish trade shows are CES in Las Vegas and NRF in NYC, but I am definitely skipping CES (mostly consumer tech and a too damn many people, everywhere) and I am too busy to sneak down for the retail show. So my head is now getting into Integrated Systems Europe, which is …
Already Big ISE Gets Bigger For 2018; Adds Its Own TIDE Conference November 30, 2017 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe 2018 is now just a couple of months out, and from what I am reading and hearing the already huge show is even bigger – with more halls and more educational components. I heard this week that there are tents being added outside the main entry hall of the RAI Amsterdam to …