Gear: eyevis Joins Transparent LCD Competition With Angled Retail Unit October 17, 2012 by Super User The German firm eyevis has joined the increasingly lengthy list of companies marketing solutions that involve transparent LCDs. The new units have 22 and 46-inch versions and do the same thing as the others in the space – removing the typical backplate of the display unit and illuminating the liquid crystal display using light from …
Gear: Using TV Broadcasting To Drive A Digital Sign Network October 17, 2012 by Super User Sending HD video via wireless has long been an aspiration of people who plan out digital signage networks and look for ways to cut cable and labor costs. We have all seen wireless video at trade shows demo’d over short ranges, but I’m not familiar with many (or any) networks using the tech to truly …
Gear: BrightSign Says New Solid State Players Rival PCs October 12, 2012 by Super User BrightSign has added what looks to be a pretty powerful new line of media players, positioning them as solid state devices that can do all the heavy lifting of PC-based solutions. “This is a major milestone for BrightSign, and we believe our new XD products will reshape the competitive landscape of our industry,” suggests Jeff …
Gear: Park Media Latest Firm To Go Android October 12, 2012 by Super User I don’t hear or read much about Park Media, but the signage software company has been around for several years now and is still cranking out product. The firm has just announced it has joined the small but growing number of providers using the Android platform to deliver a solution. The company’s Sign Center 5 …
Segway Meets iPad In Crazy Telepresence Robot September 21, 2012 by Super User The tech blog The Verge has an interesting post and video up about a new project that is one of those “What would happen …?” ideas, in this case blending an iPad with the Segway concept. They ended up with a robot that would in theory be used to attend meetings anywhere, without the need …
Hands On: Capital Networks’ Audience for Android September 17, 2012 by Super User When I first started dealing with Bil Trainor, the President of Capital Networks, it was 1999 and his Toronto-area company’s cable TV community network servers were being put into office towers to drive digital sign networks in elevators. There were few solutions on the market and even fewer that could split screens and integrate live …
New H.265 Video Compression Will Be Twice As Efficient as H.264 August 16, 2012 by Super User This could be big. The Moving Picture Experts Group (aka MPEG), which has members representing the interests of telecoms, computer, TV and consumer electronics companies, met last month and has approved a new standard for high efficiency video coding that video now encoded using H.264 (a widely used encoding standard these days) can be done …
Gear: Giada’s Super-Skinny $274 PC August 15, 2012 by Super User “Giada” is Italian for “Jade” but that’s about the only tie this mini PC company has to the land of Amarone and bunga bunga parties. The manufacturer is actually Shenzen Jiehe Technology Development Corp., which is definitely not based in Torino. The company’s newly announced i35G mini PC is the sort of teeny tiny box that could …
Sightings: LED Graffiti Wall Lit Up By Water August 14, 2012 by Super User As spotted in The Verge: French artist Antonin Fourneau created digital art project last month in the small city of Poitiers that used a temporary wall of custom LED panels to empower graffiti painted on using water. As the blog explains it, the Water Light Graffiti project was made of thousands of LEDs, each of which …
Singapore MediaCo Using Digital TV To Drive Digital OOH Bus Stop Network August 3, 2012 by Super User A Singapore media company is using what seems to be a pretty unique way to get content running Digital OOH screens at bus stops there. MediaCorp, described as Singapore’s leading media company, is using data channels in the country’s DVB-T digital television broadcasting system to deliver content. Instead of cellular broadband or hard-wired copper, the …
