rAVe: Videotel Markets DVD Player for Digital Signage October 12, 2011 by rave Dubbed the HD2600, Videotel’s latest DVD player outputs 720p (and up-scaled 1080p) via HDMI and includes DS features such as auto starts, auto plays and auto repeats even after a power loss. This is an interesting concept for a low-cost DS system, but presents a management issue as changing content requires someone to change the …
rAVe: A paper-thin poster AND speaker October 11, 2011 by rave Editor’s note: With speakers already very small (think tablets) there may be limited application for this in OOH and Digital OOH settings, but it is nonetheless pretty slick. A poster showing a traditional loudspeaker that can play real music was launched this week by the designer http://www.finnmagee.com. The poster is one of the first HomeAV products …
rAVe: Future of Display is Shaped: Mitsubishi’s Semispherical OLED Display October 11, 2011 by rave Ask yourself about “shape of the future” in displays and the natural conclusion is that once displays go flatter and flatter, the next direction is shape-changing. This June, Mitsubishi Electric created a semispherical OLED display called Geo-Cosmos for Japan’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. Now the concept has developed further with a prototype …
Advertising as immersive apps for Digital OOH and retail October 7, 2011 by Super User Suppose when you wandered into the subway or were hanging out at a transit stop that a nearby poster, humping that day’s hottest new smartphone release, caught your eye. There would be a beauty shot of the phone, and some brief but excited text hammering its biggest selling point. You’d remember that, maybe, and when …
Newad adds NFC to Out Of Home ad poster network October 5, 2011 by Super User The Montreal-based out of home and digital out of home company Newad will be one of the first media companies in North America to add Near Field Communication (NFC) technology to its network of ad posters, starting in the new year with NFC chips embedded in some 200 backlit poster boards at Canadian college campuses. The chips …
Gadget news: DirectX 11, Raspberry Pi September 27, 2011 by Super User Geek.com is relaying news that AMD has released a new graphics processor chip that’s optimized for the high-end video and motion graphics needs of commercial sectors like casino gaming and digital signage, using DirectX 11 graphics and features. Skip this paragraph if you are not a propellerhead: The Radeon E6460 embedded GPU is a 40nm chip running …
3M starts to show new digital signage hand with Pixel Qi investment September 12, 2011 by Super User When news came along that Jeff Dowell – who had been running LG’s digital signage effort in the US – was going back to 3M and working on digital signage stuff there, people were naturally curious about how 3M was going to play in the space. The company had been involved pretty heavily as a …
Touch me and tell me how you’d vote September 9, 2011 by Super User The use of anonymous video analytics for Digital OOH home audience measurement and dynamic ad serving has been touted for a while now, but now a Dallas-Forth Worth company is promoting a new spin on that by suggesting the same technology be used for political polling and candidate marketing. Access1 Media has launched what it …
How to come up with a touchless interactive option that won’t embarrass users September 6, 2011 by Super User Suppose you wanted to use digital displays to keep staff informed and also make video information available on demand, but the workplace is way too grimy to use a touch screen. Staff in industrial settings who spend their days around dirt, dust and grease are not good candidates for flicking, swiping and pushing a touchscreen in the …
The $25 digital signage player closer to reality August 30, 2011 by Super User I wrote back in May about a project that was working with the premise of a modestly-functioning computing device that would cost all of $25. The Raspberry Pi project, as its called, is still ticking along, and there’s more evidence that the people involved may get something off the test bench and into the real world. TechCrunch has a video …
