Cineplex Adds Digital Hoarding To Shopping Malls October 27, 2015 by Super User Cineplex Digital Solutions has launched a new experiential Digital OOH product in Canadian shopping centres that it suggests is a better way to mask vacant storefronts in malls and other retail environments. Cineplex says its plug and play experiential video wall set-up, called Digital Hoarding, “turns a blank space into an engaging and interactive experience that …
Projects: UK Rest Stop Menus Go Digital June 15, 2015 by Super User Welcome Break is a variation of those giant commercial rest stops you see off major highways – in this case off motorways in the UK. At 16 of the stops, the company has installed a new digital menu-board system for its QSR operators, The set-up is a combination of LG screens and Signagelive software, as installed by …
Panasonic Puts HTML5-Driven Firefox On New Panel Lineup May 15, 2015 by Super User Now you can buy a flat panel display that runs the open source Firefox browser. The first Panasonic VIERA Smart TVs powered by the Firefox OS are now available in Europe, and will be available worldwide in the coming months. Granted, the panels are Smart TVs and not commercial displays, but we all know many, many …
NEC Adds Entry-Level Panels That Play Video Off Thumb Drives April 8, 2015 by Super User NEC Display Solutions has added a set of commercial LED-backlit displays aimed at entry-level digital signage jobs, with a USB port that will take a thumb drive and run media files off it. The MultiSync E Series displays come in 32, 42, 50, 58 and 65-inch formats, and all have that built-in USB media player that supports …
DSE2015: LED Walls Are Now A Thing March 12, 2015 by Super User Tight pixel pitch LED video walls, built for indoor use, have been showing up at trade shows like the big sign and broadcast shows for at least a couple of years. But Nanolumens has for several years been the only well-known company showing indoor product. That’s changing. Last month at ISE in Europe Samsung showed …
DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: Real Digital Media February 16, 2015 by Super User Ken Goldberg, CEO, Real Digital Media Booth 1231 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? We have a brand new booth (#1231), where we’ll be featuring all-in-one devices of various sizes, showing off NFC integration, doing quick software demos, talking about player and OS options, and more. …
Intel Debuts $149 PC On A Stick January 8, 2015 by Super User Intel has announced its own HDMI media stick, but its very different from the gadgets used as media streamers and low-cost, low-footprint Android digital signage players. This is touted as a full x86 PC using Intel, not ARM. The Intel Compute Stick is similar in shape and overall size to many of the HDMI sticks already …
Big-Ass Curved Screens Get Touchy January 5, 2015 by Super User If you are still working out why you’d want a graceful curve to the screens in your digital signage install, you can add to the complication n0w by factoring in a rationale for multi-touch. The Swedish firm FlatFrog Laboratories is demo’ing a 78″ ultra-high def, curved touchscreen display at CES this week. The touch technology, says the news …
White Paper: Think Iceberg When Planning A Digital Signage Project October 3, 2014 by Super User Atlanta-based solutions provider Convergent Media Systems has put out a white paper that uses the metaphor of an iceberg to drive home the point that the biggest considerations around a successful digital signage network are not the ones end-users tend to see when they start looking around for ideas and options. “Being in the industry as long …
Pisignage Puts Raspberry Pi Digital Signage On Chrome September 2, 2014 by Super User An Indian company, Ariem Technologies, has launched a digital signage software solution that mashes up a couple of buzz heavy technologies – Google’s Chrome platform and the Raspberry Pi micro PC. is a cloud-based Digital Signage Solution for Small Enterprises. The Signage Player is based on Raspberry Pi, an off-the-shelf credit-card sized Computer. The Cloud …
