InfoComm Impressions – Day One June 10, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe big AV gadget show is on here in Las Vegas, with a few days of seminars for that crowd followed by a three day exhibit hall. This show gets something like 30,000 and it is a must for people who deploy screens. I don’t have a bunch of solid impressions just yet because my …
InfoComm lookahead: Prysm June 3, 2010 by Dave HaynesI am in Las Vegas in the middle of some really good meetings, and getting set for next week, when I will be at the Strategy Institute conference and InfoComm next week. One of the technologies I am looking forward to seeing for the first time next week is the laser phosphor displays by evidently …
Digital signage players separated at birth? June 1, 2010 by Dave HaynesNews that Swiss-based Spinitex had done a deal to have its little box run with Scala, and then a dailyDOOH post about Gefen’s little box for InfoComm, got me remembering something i noticed at DSE a few months back. The two little solid state boxes – both of them potentially great for projects that need fanless …
"Oh Really!" Department: World's First "Intelligent" Media Player? May 13, 2010 by Dave HaynesThis is a reach, to put it mildly. From a press release: AOpen America Inc., the world’s leading ultra small-form-factor computer system manufacturer and digital signage solution provider has entered into an OEM licensing agreement with iSIGN Media Solutions Inc to embed iSIGN’s patent-pending Bluetooth(R) interactive software technology into AOpen’s digital media players. The move …
Nanonation demos iPad app for retail and digital signage April 20, 2010 by Dave HaynesThis is my first stab at using my little Flip video thingdoodle – kindly supplied by some friends at Cisco – to show some stuff I see at trade shows and from my other travels. The video is a quick chat with Brian Ardinger on Nanonation about the iPad app they quickly did up for …
Does Animoto's juiced-up slideshow app have a role in digital signage? Yup. March 18, 2010 by Dave HaynesI’m just coming off a very heavy project writing what I think is a great set of guidelines on creating content for a particular piece of technology, so creative is a little on my melting brain at the moment. The client does great content – among the best around – but its work is oriented …
Samsung intros super-wide 4:1 LCD for mass transit, other public spaces March 5, 2010 by Dave Haynes Samsung now has a 43-inch LCD panel that has a panoramic aspect ratio of 4:1 and does full HD-ready (1920×480 resolution) signals.
Stratacache starts new award for clever apps that bridge digital signage and mobile March 3, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe mobile industry will have a huge impact on what the digital signage industry does over the next few years. It is not technology that operates in parallel to DS screens. It’s going to be integrated, and supplanting many of the notions we all had how screens would be used. Who, for example, is really …
Center for Democracy & Technology releases new report on privacy and DOOH; skips alarmist nonsense March 2, 2010 by Dave Haynes The Washington, DC-based Center for Democracy & Technology released a new report this week on consumer privacy and the digital signage industry, called Building the Digital Out-Of-Home Privacy Infrastructure. The CDT report has recommendations for ensuring privacy as more and more DS and DOOH companies start using audience counting and other technologies to get a sense …
Monster Media sets up sales office in Canada March 1, 2010 by Dave Haynes The companies that have been dabbling in the projection DOOH media space in Canada now have a pretty substantial competitor in their midst. Orlando, Florida-based Monster Media has hired a guy and established an office in Toronto, with a release this afternoon describing what they do as “full body responsive out-of-home advertising.” John Payne, president of Monster …
