Halo’d Screens Now Sold In Canada April 19, 2012 by Super User You can now source those displays with the subtle halo surrounds in Canada. Brighter Signs, the UK company behind the units, has started a company here, branded as Topaz Canada and having John Wheating as President of Sales. The screens have patented tech that changes colors around the screen edge, the idea being this halo effect …
Does Dolby’s New Overlay Finally Make Glasses-free 3D Viable? April 18, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”Gkybyqrc4B4″ width=”600″ height=”350″] A news release last week from Dolby and Philips sent me on a mini-rant about PR that is full of grandiosity and devoid of substance. It was announcing new glasses-free 3D tech to be shown at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas this week, and there are now …
Please Don’t Steal Me! April 18, 2012 by Super User This could be dropped in the clever, weird or impractical bucket, or all three. Delphi Display Systems has introduced a “Digital Sidewalk SignBoard” that sticks a daylight readable display into an old school cafe chalkboard you parked outside of pubs and restaurants. The idea is you get the advantage of digital but the quaintness of …
Tech: How To Get A Dead Rapper For Your Next Concert April 16, 2012 by Super User There’s lot of buzz today in tech blogs about the virtual appearance of long-dead rapper Tupac Shakur at the Coachella music festival in California this weekend. Most of the buzz is about the ethics of having a dead guy perform at a live show (at least he wouldn’t have had a ridiculous dressing room rider …
Dolby, Philips Announce New Glasses-Free 3D Format (But That’s It) April 12, 2012 by Super User I have read this release a few times and now marvel at how the PR managed to generate so much nothing. The nut of it is that the two companies, which both have a lot of experience in 3D (though Dolby’s is on the cinema projector side), say they will show a new format at …
The Rise Of The Digital Signage Device April 10, 2012 by Super User We are finally starting to see the expected transition of digital signage applications from being PC-based to smart device-based. We first saw a commercial product in the SpinetiX solid-state networked media player about three years ago, but it has not had a lot of take-up in the market because the price of the unit was …
Five Vendors I Wish I’d Seen At DSE March 16, 2012 by Super User The challenge with going to a trade show in an industry I’ve been around since we were making displays with stone tools and mud is that it is really hard to walk through that place and not end up in lengthy chats with friends. So two days was nowhere near enough for me to have …
rAVe: Kayye On Extron’s Opting Out Of Major Pro AV Shows March 14, 2012 by Super User Since breaking the news that Extron is no longer exhibiting at the InfoComm USA or Integrated Systems Europe shows two weeks ago, we’ve had a deluge of comments on our website, our LinkedIn page, our Facebook page and even ourTwitter feed. And, the opinions have been all over the place. On one side are those …
Canada’s Astral Adds NFC To OOH Capabilities March 14, 2012 by Super User Montreal-based Astral Out-of-Home, one of the largest OOH media companies in Canada, has announced plans to start using NFC technology with its street furniture inventory in two major markets. Astral is using Vancouver-based Gauge Mobile’s capabilities to let consumers walk up with their smartphones to transit posters – static or digital – and tap a …
Get It Right … Build It In March 14, 2012 by Super User I was walking through the Monte Carlo casino last week, heading to a video shoot (more on that in a coupla weeks), and enjoying the way the MGM properties in Las Vegas have executed on digital signage. All of it, or damn near all of it, looks like it was always there. The merits of …
