BrightSign Offers Sustainability-Focused Trade-In Incentive Program For EOL’d Players April 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes This may be common, for all I know, with tech hardware – but it’s new to me: an AV hardware manufacturer running a trade-in incentive plan. Silicon Valley-based BrightSign has launched a Trade-In Program that encourages end-users with end-of-life (EOL) or now underspec’d earlier versions of its little purple media players to return them and …
Did You Know A Curved LED Wall Could Support Touch? Me Neither … April 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes When finer pitch LED video wall tech started coming on the market, one of the knocks other than the big one – high cost – was how the technology would not support touchscreen interactivity. The little light emitters were easily damaged or even knocked off, so big video walls were often roped off or had …
Ross Video Boosts Real-Time Graphics Capabilities Via Bannister Lake Acquisition April 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes The live video production technology company Ross Video has an agreement to acquire another Canadian company, Bannister Lake Software (BL Soft). Ottawa-based Ross Video is a major player in solutions and services for live broadcasts and events, and Bannister Lake’s data-driven graphics capabilities fit nicely within broad list of products. The flagship BL Soft product Chameleon …
Peerless-AV Adds One Display, One Mount Capability To Its “Seamless” LED Mounting System April 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes The specialty display and display infrastructure manufacturer Peerless-AV has debuted a new twist on its “SEAMLESS” universal LED mounting System – what the Chicago-area company says is an industry-first “one display, one mount” solution. This is not an area I know all that well, so let’s go with this helpful, chest-beating free description found on …
Pop Star Olivia Rodrigo Makes Live Appearance At LA Target Store, But Does So From NYC … Using Transparent LCD Tech April 1, 2024 by Dave Haynes I have my doubts about some of the use-cases I have seen for those shower stall-like transparent LCD box thingies marketed by Proto and a growing number of other companies you might say were “inspired” by the hologram-ish tech the LA company cooked up. But here’s a recent project that I think works well … …
Mimo’s Flashcast Device Aimed At Simplifying Mass Notifications Across Complicated Screen Networks March 28, 2024 by Dave Haynes The small form-factor display manufacturer Mimo Monitors has started marketing the beta release of a little box that’s designed to do rapid alerts across digital signage and other, similar kinds of large footprint networks. Called Mimo Flashcast, the little sub-$140 box puts a visual alert overlay on screens – based on auto-triggered messaging pushed by …
Networking Giant Ubiquiti Has Digital Signage As An Add-On Solution March 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes We’ve seen, though the years, all kinds of companies of varying sizes and product focuses find their way into digital signage – in part because it is relatively easy to bolt on a simple media play-out software application to broader solutions and platforms. A good example of that is the video collaboration business, with companies …
Only Things Standing After Twister Takes Out Indiana Taco Bell Are Menu Display Totems And Kiosks March 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s a compelling argument for why the engineering design for outdoor digital displays is about much more than just the brightness of the screen and the ability to exhaust built-up heat. That stuff is super-important, but so are things like how the enclosure is fixed to the ground. Just about the ONLY Thing left standing …
LG Extends WebOS Smart Signage Concept To Projector Series March 12, 2024 by Dave Haynes LG’s US Business Solutions wing has expanded its “smart” digital signage hardware line-up beyond displays, adding a series of high-brightness laser projectors that run LG webOS and drive projected surfaces with content managed by the company’s own webOS Signage 6.0 digital signage platform. There are five supported models in the RG series of ProBeam high-brightness laser …
Mvix, Shuttle Partner On Digital Signage Bundle Of Perpetual Software And Dedicated Player March 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes The DC-area digital signage CMS solutions company Mvix has long had its own selection of media players tuned to work with its platform, but has now added a partner option based around a perpetual license of Mvix software and a small 4K box from the US subsidiary of Taiwan PC maker Shuttle. The SM30N Digital …
