BrightSign Has Sold And Shipped 1M Little Purple Play-out Boxes In Last Four Years October 5, 2021 by Super User BrightSign has announced it has now shipped two million of its little purple media play-out boxes, half of those in just the last four years. That’s about 1,000 units shipped per day lately, which is impressive. I have lately been referring to BrightSign as a category, as opposed to a player option. When I hear …
ScreenCloud Announces New Purpose-Built Operating System And Sub-$200 Digital Signage Playout Device October 4, 2021 by Super User The UK-based digital signage CMS firm ScreenCloud has taken the interesting step of putting two years of R&D time and money into developing a purpose-built operating system for its playout software and a new, low-cost device. The company has launched ScreenCloud OS – a custom linux distribution it says is designed for high performance, simple …
When Your Pro AV Company Is Named Covid, All You Can Do Is Laugh, Shrug And Carry On September 23, 2021 by Super User The organizers of the InfoComm trade show coming up in a few weeks are doing everything possible to keep COVID out of the convention center venue, but in an exceptionally weird twist, Covid has booth 3354 on the exhibit hall floor. A Tempe, AZ company called Covid has been manufacturing audio-visual connectivity solutions for nearly …
BroadSign Forms Consortium To Chase In-Retail Software And Ad Opportunities September 21, 2021 by Super User Something of a consortium of familiar vendors and service providers in the digital signage sector have linked up to go after the retail market with a model that could include monetization through third-party and endemic advertising. Broadsign has announced what it calls a “joint effort” with visual solutions company Gable, managed network services and solutions …
Mvix, BrightSign Pair On Worry-Free Signature Care Program For Large Digital Signage Networks September 14, 2021 by Super User The DC-area digital signage software firm Mvix has partnered with BrightSign on a new program designed to take any hardware worries off the table in planning large, long-term networks. The new Signature Care program provides a lot of hand-holding through deployment, ongoing priority support, and built-in hardware refreshes after three years. Targeted at enterprise-scale deployments, …
UPshow Broadens Digital Signage Services From Bars To – Wait For It – K-12 Schools??? August 30, 2021 by Super User This is one of those company pivots I think few people would have seen coming – a firm that got its start putting screens in bars now also marketing an on-premise messaging solution for K-12 schools. Chicago-based UPshow has announced a partnership with the Taiwan-based tech firm AOPEN “to bring captivating, targeted entertainment; valuable, engaging educational …
Chromeboxes Are Still Out There, And Being Used On Digital Signage Jobs August 30, 2021 by Super User There was a time, a few years back, when hardware devices running Google’s Chrome operating system were thought in some circles to be a next big thing in digital signage – because the devices were relatively inexpensive, used an OS based on the latest web technologies, and were backed by a top three global tech …
It Takes 12 Techs And Seven Days To Service, Optimize That Huge New LED Wall At The LVCC August 26, 2021 by Super User The deployment and field services firm USSI Global has pushed out an interesting press release about its role in dealing with that massive video wall that’s been lit up in the lobby of the new part of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Samsung has already put out a lot of material about the 4mm LED …
Asian Fast Food Chain Itsu Does COVID-driven Pivot To Self-Service Order Screens And Meal Status Displays August 24, 2021 by Super User The pandemic has forced a lot of fast food and fast casual restaurant operators to rethink how they operated – from adding drive-thru capability to reducing the amount of staff-to-customer interactions. What the Asian-inspired Itsu chain is doing in the UK is a good, though certainly not unique, example of how those kinds of restaurants …
Intel Winding Down Its RealSense Computer Vision Business: Report August 19, 2021 by Super User Via CRN The long-running IT publication CRN is reporting that Intel is “winding down” its RealSense computer vision business, meaning its depth sensor cameras are going away just as Microsoft ended production and support for its Kinect sensor cameras. Reports CRN: We are winding down our RealSense business and transitioning our computer vision talent, technology and products …
