rAVe at ISE: BrightSign’s Hastings Does Live Data Show & Tell January 31, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”x0BxPA-MXn4″ width=”600″ height=”350″] Here’s Jeff Hastings of BrightSign – which has a nice series of connected, fanless media playout boxes – showing how it can ingest and display live data. In this case, it shows queue management for a discount haircutting place, which doesn’t sound all that sexy but is probably pretty practical. rAVe …
rAVe at ISE: Real-time Authoring Out Of Big Database January 31, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”4RbN_wxAiy4″ width=”600″ height=”350″] This seems like a pretty big challenge but the sales guy from Hamburg, Germany-based Ventuz shrugglingly describes here how the software can generate real-time visual presentations out of an SAP database. He never utters the demon phrase “digital signage” but you could imagine in corporate settings the application. Pretty cool.
rAVe at ISE: Chief Debuts Portable Video Wall January 30, 2012 by rave Chief has announced plans recently to release a new Fusion Series mobile video wall cart this spring. The new freestanding solution makes it possible to construct video walls in prominent locations for temporary situations or when a wall-mounted installation is not an option and accommodates most 40–65” (102-165 cm) displays. Available in two configurations, the …
Start-up Puts Digital Menu System On Smart TVs January 30, 2012 by Super User A small SF Bay-area firm has paired up with another local start-up to offer a digital menu board system that integrates with the Point Of Sale set-up and eliminates the need for a PC bolted on the back of the display. This system relies, instead, on the emerging wave of so-called smart TVs. Digital Menu …
UK Startup Builds Digital Signage Networking Into Power Sockets January 26, 2012 by Super User A lot of digital signage installs use WiFi, but the most stable, reliable way to connect networked media players remains hard-wired ethernet connections. That has meant pulling Cat5 or 6 cables all over the place, which can be a bear in terms of cost, time and hassle. Using the electrical infrastructure of a building (its …
MGM Grand Lights Up Huge Lobby Video Wall January 18, 2012 by Super User It’s really not that long ago when people in this sector were pretty giddy to even see a digital signage screen or two integrated into the back wall of a hotel reception desk. Now, with dropping prices and better technology, digital signage can BE the back wall. David Levin, the president of Four Winds Interactive, …
Intel, YCD Show Off Digital Merchandising Concept At NRF January 16, 2012 by Super User I frankly couldn’t make heads or tails out of a press release involving YCD and Intel, and a thing they were showing off this week at the NRF show in New York, but I was sent a case study that has since cleared the fog. What the release said: Using second generation Intel® CoreTM i5 …
Companies Serve Up Real-time Analytics For Corporate Communications January 16, 2012 by Super User I don’t write a lot about corporate communications projects because they rarely seem to get discussed, perhaps because the jobs are smaller one-offs done by resellers and integrators with non-existent PR machines. However, there’s a lot of those jobs out there. Of course, one of the big challenges with corporate comms jobs is figuring out …
BrightSign And Signagelive Pair Up On Networked Offer January 16, 2012 by Super User We’ve been talking a lot about consolidation in the digital signage sector because there are way too many solutions options out there. But not all that consolidation is going to be on the M&A side. Sometimes, it will be two companies choosing to work together instead of competing. Consider the news today about a deal …
DV Signage Debuts Low-Cost GPS-Driven Media Player January 13, 2012 by Super User DV Signage, aka Digital View, has come out with a nice tweak to one of its workhorse products that introduces a low-cost solution for companies that want to tie messaging to GPS coordinates. Its ViewStream 300GPS, says a release, allows the automatic triggering of specific videos and images according to realtime GPS data, on a non-networked …
