Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: ISE Director Mike Blackman Previews The 2018 Show January 10, 2018 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is now just a matter of weeks away, with the doors to the massive pro AV trade show in Amsterdam set to open on February 6th. The show has broken attendance records in recent years, and it looks very much like the 2018 number will exceed last year’s count of 73,000-plus. ISE …
Digital Signage Awards Entries Now Shortlisted, Winners Announced Feb. 7 at ISE January 8, 2018 by Dave Haynes The judges for the Digital Signage Awards have put in their assessments and short lists have been developed across the various categories. The winners will be announced and awards handed out on February 7 at Integrated Systems Europe, as part of the trade show’s Digital Signage Summit. I’m among the judges and can say there were …
Already Big ISE Gets Bigger For 2018; Adds Its Own TIDE Conference November 30, 2017 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe 2018 is now just a couple of months out, and from what I am reading and hearing the already huge show is even bigger – with more halls and more educational components. I heard this week that there are tents being added outside the main entry hall of the RAI Amsterdam to …
Tales From The ISE Aisles: Two Weeks Later And I’m Still Tired February 23, 2017 by Mitch Leathers Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler Digital Signage ISE ended two weeks ago, and I’m still tired. I fell asleep on the plane before we took off from Amsterdam to Madrid. Then slept again from Madrid to Coruna. I got home, kissed my wife and kids, handed them presents, and took a two and half hour …
ISE Beauty Shots Of LG’s Curvy And Pivoting OLEDs February 22, 2017 by Dave Haynes The Korean display manufacturers continue to have this curious affection for using attractive women as decorative baubles when they issue images of their newest products. They do it from Seoul and they also do it from Amsterdam. I’m running a pair of photos taken at ISE at the LG booth, not because these Dutch (presumably) …
Sony’s Super-Fine LED Wall Product Thought To Cost $75,000 Per Square Metre February 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes The display market research consultancy Futuresource has a great report out on ISE, and one of the technologies it explores is Sony’s CLEDIS. I couldn’t get an answer from the Sony guy I spoke with about the super-fine LED display, but Futuresource writes: Although the CLEDIS stand captured considerable attention with its striking colours and …
Photos From The Floor – ISE 2017 February 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes I took a pile of photos of things I saw around the show floor last week at ISE in Amsterdam. Posting about everything isn’t feasible, so here’s a bunch of pix with comments.
Die-Cut Specialty LCDs Intriguing, But Use-Case Pretty Elusive February 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes I had one of those moments last week at ISE in Amsterdam when you see something, get intrigued by it, and then wonder what the heck its purpose and commercial application might be. There was a Korean company in one of the smaller micro office-like booths in hall 8 that was showing LCDs done in …
ISE 2017 Sees 11.7% Attendance Jump; Adding 15th (Yikes!) Hall For 2018 February 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes Last week’s Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam saw a nearly 12 percent jump in attendance over 2016, with 73,413 poor souls getting hopelessly lost making their way around the event’s 14 separate, sort of interconnected halls. The show had almost 1,200 exhibitors, with roughly 200 of them new for 2017. There were about 600 press and …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: ISE 2017 Bonus Edition February 13, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a bonus edition. I did a pile of sit-down interviews last week in Amsterdam with different execs for full-length podcasts, and you will hear those over the next several weeks. I also did some stand-ups that are already live, with four already up. These are the other four. I normally get these things properly …
