Pic: Digital art in new Vegas hotel lobby December 16, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe latest, and probably last for a long while, big resort on the Vegas strip opened this week. The $4B, 3,000-room Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas has no end of bling – it is catering to the Bellagio-Wynn crowd – but what I will want to see when next there is the digital art that evidently …
Panasonic joins the all-in-one bun fight with CoolSign/Haivision December 14, 2010 by Dave HaynesPanasonic has done a partner deal with Haivision, the new owner of CoolSign, to market a “a complete digital signage solution for businesses that is easy to purchase, install and operate.” The solution combines Haivision’s CoolSign digital signage software platform, pre-configured on a powerful media player PC, and Panasonic’s professional LCD displays. This bundled digital …
AMX releases TCO calculator. Great, but … December 14, 2010 by Dave HaynesPro AV giant AMX has announced and released a total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator for digital signage installations. “The first such tool in the digital signage industry lets buyers compare digital signage solutions and evaluate costs, both fixed and recurring. The TCO calculator also serves as an education vehicle introducing new buyers to the …
The out-of-home TV advertising argument takes a hit December 10, 2010 by Dave HaynesOne of the central selling propositions of digital out of home is that people are not watching as much TV and that those who do, have DVRs and fast-forward through the ads. Therefore, DOOH reaches people out of home, when there’s no remote control around to zip through those pesky commercials. The effect DVRs can …
World's biggest digital signage screen switched on in Saudi Arabia December 9, 2010 by Dave HaynesOh my. The OOH industry and its ADHD little half-brother DOOH have been slowly turning buildings into media facades using suspended print banners, transparent vinyl wraps, electronic boards and LED light curtains. Now a French company is marketing (and installing) technology, that really does turn a building into a media vehicle – with LED lighting …
Veterans’ tribute snugs displays in poignant granite slab December 7, 2010 by Dave HaynesThis is pretty cool – a digital display embedded in a granite slab, as part of a memorial piece. The recently-unveiled Veterans Memorial at Lansing Community College in Michigan has 15 Christie MicroTiles snugged into a granite slab to honor and recognize local Medal of Honor and Distinguished Service recipients from the armed forces, spanning …
Capital Networks/Digimation release v4 software December 2, 2010 by Dave HaynesToronto-based Capital Networks and its longtime software partner Digimation have been in this space for more than a decade, and are now into version 4 of its Audience platform. The companies’ press release reports Audience 4.0 puts a big focus on HD quality video output, and adds “smart, enterprise-level scheduling” that enables hyper-targeting down to …
NanoLumens gets big, curved profile at Vegas gaming expo November 23, 2010 by Dave HaynesI’ve said to the NanoLumens guys one of the things I really like about their flexible LED technology is how it can conform to curved surfaces. They’ve said, “Yup, but we hardly get asked about that.” Slightly weird, given how many rounded walls and support columns are out there that wouldn’t look very good with …
Nielsen's corporate offices lit up by Arsenal Media with digital displays November 16, 2010 by Dave HaynesDenys Lavigne of Arsenal Media has been telling me for a while now about a project his company was working on for The Nielsen Company’s executive offices in Connecticut. That project is now switched on, and Lavigne has passed along a link to a video case study that explains what was done and why. I …
LG formalizes software ties with BroadSign November 16, 2010 by Dave HaynesLG Electronics USA has made formal its relationship with BroadSign as the software under the hood of its turnkey digital signage solution, called SuperSign Premier-s. The solution was called SignNET when it was unveiled at InfoComm, and BroadSign’s involvement was kept very quietly in the background. To align with another LG digital signage software platform, …