No More Stupid People Tricks: Microsoft Kills Off Kinect October 26, 2017 by Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 …
DSE 2017 Booth Previews: GIGABYTE Technology March 23, 2017 by Super User DSE BOOTH PREVIEWS GIGABYTE Technology DSE Booth Number -136 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Our new GIGABYTE BRIX IOT mini-PCs are coming into the market with a wide variety of usage scenarios. Based on the latest Intel processor, its efficient power consumption …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Francesco Ziliani, Spinetix March 15, 2017 by Super User SpinetiX has been on the digital signage scene for more than a decade now, and if you are in the business, you may know them as the Swiss guys who market a really nice little aluminum-clad, solid state playback box. They had that 10 years ago, when a lot of signage networks were still going …
DSE 2017 Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Chief/Milestone March 14, 2017 by Super User I tend to think of the mounting solutions guys in the signage industry being a bit like Rodney Dangerfield, the comedian who used to moan about how he got no respect at all. The stuff that holds all those displays in place securely, and gets everything perfectly aligned and tidy, is essential to any job. …
