Display Week: Japan Display Shows Transparent LCD As Variation On COVID Shields May 17, 2021 by Super User Japan Display or JDI – a specialty LCD display manufacturer owned by Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi – had some of the more impressive tech at Display Week that last time it was an in-person show. This week, the company has a virtual stand at the event and I was intrigued by a link to a …
Gartner Forecasts Chip Shortages Will Stretch Well Into 2022 May 14, 2021 by Super User The research and analysis firm Gartner is forecasting that the worldwide semiconductor shortage that is hitting most tech industries, including digital signage, will persist throughout 2021 and not return to more normal levels until Q2 2022. “The semiconductor shortage will severely disrupt the supply chain and will constrain the production of many electronic equipment types …
BrightSign Adds Cellular Connectivity To Product Line-up May 12, 2021 by Super User Dedicated media player maker BrightSign has taken the interesting step of launching a USB cellular modem with carriers and 4G data plans, to sell alongside its little purple boxes. The idea behind BrightSign Mobile is providing a means to connect digital signage networks in venues where on-premise broadband is just flat unavailable, for various reasons, including …
LG Touts New Tech That Allows Sports Bar Patrons To Hear Their Game Commentary May 12, 2021 by Super User LG has started marketing tech that allows people in busy, noisy places like sports bars to whip out their smartphones and ear buds and listen to things like the live game commentary from a specific display screen, without that audio blasting over the in-house sound system. The concept is not new, but when I have …
Is Your Digital Signage Business Being Impacted By Global Semiconductor Shortages? May 7, 2021 by Super User I have been hearing, for weeks now, about a shortage of semiconductor microchips – the smarts inside everything from cars to countertop home appliances. And pro AV technologies. There is more demand than supply at the moment, and that may affect the availability of new product. Observers say the situation, globally, owes to several COVID-driven …
Community Builder Using Digital Signage Players Inside Model Homes May 5, 2021 by Super User I have heard of many cases in which builders and property developers have used digital signage in their presentation centers – dedicated buildings or areas within existing or new builds – that show the features and offers of dwellings and areas. Here’s a case where a builder is putting digital signage into each model home, …
UK’s B-Tech Makes Strategic Hire To Broaden AV Mounts In North America May 4, 2021 by Super User A firm that has been selling pro AV mounting hardware from a base in the U.K. has seen the sale of Premier Mounts as an opportunity to amplify expansion efforts into the U.S. and Canada, even hiring a 25-year Premier vet to run U.S. sales. B-Tech AV Mounts has almost 50 years of experience in …
Taiwan’s Neousys Debuts Rugged Box That’s AI-Ready And Does 4 4K 60fps Outs April 27, 2021 by Super User The digital signage world may have shifted quite a bit from PCs to smart displays and specialty devices like BrightSign boxes for digital signage jobs, but there is still demand for PCs for more specialized and computing-intensive jobs. There are numerous companies making ruggedized and industrialized boxes that handle jobs like video walls and computer …
Submarine Takes Slow Dive Based On Viewers Of Those UK Digital Billboard April 22, 2021 by Super User In the first wave of QR codes. several years ago, there were lots of jokes about the dubious merits of putting these enhanced bar codes on digital OOH billboards. But here, in what seems to a revival period for the tech, is a billboard that makes the artistic rendering of the codes the focal point …
How Businesses Can Remain Connected During COVID-19 April 22, 2021 by Super User Guest Post: Colin Farquhar, VITEC One year on from lockdowns imposed in countries around the world and we now face a starkly different world. No one could have predicted the far-reaching impact that the COVID-19 outbreak would have and how phrases such as ‘social distancing’ and ‘lockdown’ would become standard in people’s vocabulary. But today, …
