How We Did An NFC-Social Media-Twitter Mash-Up March 12, 2012 by Super User One of the big things we wanted to accomplish at this year’s Preset Group DSE Mixer was to fully integrate digital into the event, and that meant more than just getting some digital content looping on the venue’s available screens. I was contacted, separately, by folks at two different companies, and with the help of …
signagelive Partners With Data Host Giant Rackspace February 28, 2012 by Super User The term cloud has entered the mainstream and applied to pretty much anything that uses the intertubes to communicate. You could argue any networked digital signage platform is cloud-based, I suppose. But when I think of a cloud-based platform, I think in terms of shared servers – somewhere else – that provide resources, software, and …
rAVe: Almo ProAV Named Exclusive U.S. Distributor for NanoLumens February 15, 2012 by Super User Almo Professional A/V has been named the exclusive national distributor for NanoLumens Inc., a manufacturer of of ultra-slim and lightweight flexible and rigid LED displays for use in DS, large format and signage applications. “As the exclusive national distributor of NanoLumens, we’re uniquely positioned to bring an entirely new business opportunity for displays to our …
rAVe: CE Labs’ New DS Player For Retail Coax Networks February 15, 2012 by Super User CE labs just released a new DS media player in the form of the MP500M, which is integrated with an ATSC RF (off-air HDTV) modulator. The MP500M is designed for retailers who are operating through legacy RF coaxial distribution and has a fully agile UHF modulator compatible with standard ATSC Video and Audio transport streams. …
Capital Networks To Debut Android-based Bundle At DSE2012 February 15, 2012 by Super User Way back in a DSE 2011 booth about the size of an Airbus 320 washroom, I saw a Taiwanese company (whose name escapes me) showing a flat panel display running video and coming off a little ARM (mobile phone) processor and using Android as the operating system. That was really the only sign at …
Planar Debuts New 1:1 Ratio “LCD Tiles” February 8, 2012 by Super User The marketing and packaging of a product can be a lot of the battle in trying to look different in a crowded marketplace, and I can only tip my hat to the folks at Planar who have been doing a good job of positioning their reasonably common gear in unique ways. Stacking flat panels in …
Raspberry Pi Just About Ready February 7, 2012 by Super User The Verge tech blog is reporting the $35 Raspberry Pi – which among many things could in theory be a very low-cost digital signage player – should see the first units coming off the manufacturing line within a couple of weeks. Production started on the $35 Raspberry Pi last month, and now the team has …
Montreal, Nashville Firms Combine on Super Bowl Projection Mapping February 6, 2012 by Super User If you watched the Super Bowl and weren’t in the kitchen at halftime frantically looking for more beer you probably saw the “Bridgestone Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show” featuring Madonna and a pile of people, most of whom don’t feature in my iTunes collection. OK, none. What was great to me and countless AV/digital signage …
Rave at ISE2012: Vids, vids and more vids February 2, 2012 by Super User Content partner rAVe continues to have its team running around ISE in Amsterdam show video. You can find them all here at ravenowise.com You could spend hours looking, and I think the crew could better balance organization and curation over sheer numbers. But here, for example, are a couple of companies doing the transparent LCD …
rAVe at ISE2012: Kayye’s Day One Summary February 1, 2012 by Super User The day started like any other in Amsterdam, except for the fact that it was snowing, freezing cold and we were in a line to get into the Amsterdam RAI (the convention center’s moniker) with about 35,000 other folks that made their way through the gates that funneled on to the ISE 2012 show floor. …
