Vegas Airport Car Rental Shuttles Now Kitted Out With GPS-Enabled Ad Screens Inside January 11, 2018 by Dave Haynes It’s kinda hard to get excited about ad screens in shuttle buses, but a new case study out from BrightSign is interesting not so much for the product, but the insight and how this stuff is done in things that are moving, bouncing and bumping, and probably exposed to all kinds of power spikes …
Intel’s Newest NUC Can Drive Six Digital Signage Displays At Once January 8, 2018 by Dave Haynes Intel is showing off a new, very powerful version of its NUC mini-PCs, which have been widely used by some digital signage network operators, software vendors and systems integrators. Liliputing, reporting from CES, has a video and story up about $800 and $1,000 barebones versions of a NUC – that’s before OS, RAM and storage …
Scala Starts Making And Marketing Branded Digital Signage Media Players November 29, 2017 by Dave Haynes Scala has started marketing a pair of branded, Windows 10-driven digital signage players as part of the company’s solution offer. While many or most digital signage CMS companies have their go-to boxes, not that many settle on and brand a specific device or set of devices as their own. There appear to be two versions of …
No More Stupid People Tricks: Microsoft Kills Off Kinect October 26, 2017 by Dave Haynes Microsoft has killed off its motion-sensing Kinect – a camera-based gadget tied in with the tech giant’s consumer Xbox gaming boxes. The news kinda sorta vaguely matters in digital signage because there are jobs, here and there, that have used Kinects as the engine for their interactive experiences – asking poor slobs to flap their …
Keywest Technology Debuts Swiss Army Knife Media Player September 22, 2017 by Dave Haynes Software and solutions companies are always pushing out news of platform updates, but it’s not that often I see one of these companies talking about new hardware they’ve put together. Kansas City-based Keywest Technology, which has been around this industry for 15 years, is touting what it calls a multi-use player that operate as a …
NEC Beefs Up Open Pluggable PC Line-Up For Digital Signage Displays, Projectors September 21, 2017 by Dave Haynes NEC Display Solutions has beefed up its line of Open Pluggable Specification (OPS) compliant computers that plug into the backs of displays and offer a Windows-based alternative to the increasing numbers of smart system on chip displays being sold in the digital signage market. The OPS computers now all include 64-bit Windows 10 Pro and …
Toshiba Unveils Smartphone-sized PCs For Digital Signage, But Does Anyone Need Them? August 24, 2017 by Dave Haynes Two of Toshiba’s North American business units have announced a pair of smartphone-sized and shaped mini PCs that have that solutions looking for problems air to them. Toshiba’s Client Solutions Division and Toshiba Client Solutions Canada Ltd have released the dynaEdge Mobile Mini PC DE-100 and dynaEdge with Intel Unite solution. The former has an MSRP of …
Digital Signage Manufacturer BrightSign Hits 1 Million Units Shipped August 22, 2017 by Dave Haynes This industry has come a long, long way in the years I’ve been involved, but I think we’re still in a place where many companies get motivated by deals that will involve screen and player counts that number in the 100s, never mind the 1,000s. So it’s remarkable, in many respects, to hear about a …
AOpen, Sharp Announce New Snap-In Windows Media Players For Digital Signage July 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes The options for all-in-one displays continues to broaden, with Sharp announcing a partnership with AOPEN that allows a small Windows 10-based media player to be slot-loaded in a 4K screen. The new arrangement uses the mini version of the Open Pluggable Specification (OPS) launched a few years back by Intel. Several companies have or have …
Milestone AV Acquired By France’s Legrand June 28, 2017 by Dave Haynes The French building infrastructure firm Legrand has acquired Milestone AV Technologies, the Minneapolis-based parent company of several big pro AV brands like Chief, Sanus and DA-Lite. “Legrand is committed to serving the professionally installed AV industry which is an attractive growth area driven by the advancement and expansion of video applications,” says John Selldorff, President …
