AV Carts Get An Interesting Rethink In Peggy May 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes The core concept of AV carts that could roll a screen around a venue to where it is needed is anything but new. They were around in my schooldays, so shortly after man discovered fire. They’ve evolved through the years, and Samsung upended things a few years ago when it came out with The Flip, …
SiliconCore Launches New LED Driver Tech It Suggests Will Help Shape Future Of Premium Video Walls May 11, 2022 by Dave Haynes While much of the AV world is focused on what’s on show at Integrated Systems Europe, there’s another display industry show on in Silicon Valley that caters to the crowd that thinks up, designs, tests and sometimes releases new display technologies. Display Week 2022 – run annually by the Society for Information Display – is …
ISE 2022: Here’s A Round-Up Of Videos From The Show Floor May 11, 2022 by Dave Haynes I’m not there so I can’t do much more than relay news and observations from Integrated Systems Europe in Barcelona – a big pro AV trade show Sixteen:Nine has in its must-attend rotation year to year … in more normal times. The general sense I get from reading and watching videos is that the show …
Barco’s ClickShare Tech Gets Digital Signage-Enabled Via Signagelive Partnership May 11, 2022 by Dave Haynes As consumer and workplace devices have grown increasingly smart and reliably connected, it’s been natural for people on the technology side of digital signage to wonder if they could also function as media players. Barco’s ClickShare product line was introduced a few years ago as a means of enabling easy, almost seamless sharing from laptops …
Peerless-AV Broadens Custom LED Mounting Capabilities Via Acquisition Of ADF Visual Display Products May 11, 2022 by Dave Haynes Chicago-based display technology manufacturer Peerless-AV has broadened its display mounting capabilities into custom LED work, through the acquisition of the southern California firm ADF Visual Display Products. ADF has specialized in engineering and then building some of the more high profile and challenging direct view LED deployment jobs out there. The company has been acting …
Virtual Mike Blackman To Hover At ISE Next Week, Greeting Attendees May 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes The people in charge of big trade shows are always kind of floating around the exhibition venue, but next week in Barcelona, ISE show director Mike Blackman will be floating at the main entryway greeting attendees. Well, sort of … The British firm HYPERVSN has worked a product positioning deal to get a version of …
Germany’s Holoplot To Demo 3D Focused Audio For Immersive Projects At ISE May 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes The preview material and booth visit invites are now coming in steadily from companies doing stands next week at Integrated Systems Europe in Barcelona, and much of what I have seen suggests a lot of the display tech will be about improvements to existing tech as opposed to reveals of new ideas and ways of …
These German Digital Ad Totems Have Moss Backsides And Double As Sidewalk-Level Air Filters April 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to AV Magazine for noting this … Digital OOH media companies have been trying to use smart city add-ons – like community WiFI and IoT sensors – to win city approvals and rights to put ad poster totems on city streets, but a German company has a different spin on all this: a …
US Broadcaster Sinclair, Integrator USSI Testing Digital Signage Delivery Using NextGen TV Technologies April 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes What if tweaked but largely existing television broadcasting towers and transmitters could be used to deliver digital signage content and DOOH advertising, instead of being delivered using the Internet? That’s the premise that will be tested in the US for a network of screens attached to electric vehicle charging stations, by the Sinclair Broadcast Group …
German Firm Markets Manufacturer-Agnostic Device Management Platform For Digital Signage, Kiosks April 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes Via Invidis … A Hamburg, Germany firm called Accenta is marketing a device and supporting platform – called Kiosk IQ – that makes it possible to monitor, diagnose and control digital signage systems in real time, regardless of manufacturer and location. “24/7 monitoring, cloud alarm rules with escalation management and notifications via email or SMS provide …