Reminder: DSF Mixer Next Wednesday In Toronto June 17, 2013 by Super User A reminder that this event is on next week in my general vicinity of Toronto, put on by the Digital Signage Federation board and some sponsors like NEC and Capital Networks. It is, amusingly, billed as a two-hour mixer (clearly, the DSF people haven’t tipped beers with Canadians, who will work towards closing the …
Events: HP Hosting Digital Retail Session In Montreal Wednesday June 17, 2013 by Super User If you are in beautiful Montreal this week there’s a lunch and early afternoon event Wednesday about retail innovation, being put on by HP, Microsoft, and Scala. There are sessions on: HP Retail Solutions: Transformation of in-store IT technology in today’s omni-channel shopping environment. Microsoft Retail: Microsoft Retail Innovations: from Microsoft’s own retail stores to retail technology deployments …
Sub-Optimal Creative Equals $2.3 B Opportunity Loss in Digital OOH: ClearChannel June 17, 2013 by Super User Clear Channel Outdoor has a new study out about what it has dubbed Digital Asset Wastage, claiming most brands are running sub-optimal creative and losing media opportunity they value at $2.3 Billion a year. The media giant says it sampled activity across its global network of digital screens, and calculated that just 1 in 4 …
Projects: Smart Signage End Caps In Loop C-Stores June 16, 2013 by Super User Here’s a small pilot in Silicon Valley that’s interesting for several reasons. It’s using HTML5 as the content platform. It’s a digital signage deal coming out of the print sector. It integrates mobile interaction. And it is using Samsung’s system on chip Smart Signage displays. (Disclosure: I work with or am tight with some of …
InfoComm Impressions: Day 2 June 15, 2013 by Super User ORLANDO – So my grand plans of spending most of the day poking around the Infocomm trade show hall got derailed by meetings and conversations that just kept happening on day 2, but I did manage to get a bit of a walk around the floor and develop some thoughts. 1 – We’re now at …
InfoComm Impressions: Day 1 June 13, 2013 by Super User It’s a little hot here, as in Oh My God How Do People Live Here? hot. But that’s typical in the years the pro-AV trade show comes here. Crowds look pretty good to my untrained eyes, though there are always guys at the backs of halls idly chatting and reading emails. I ended up in …
Project: Massive 24K Pixel Wall Lights Up At Christie HQ June 10, 2013 by Super User [vimeo id=”68076359″ width=”610″ height=”343″] This is very nice. A huge, jagged sweep of displays that span two walls of a renovated lobby at Christie Digital’s US HQ in Cypress, California. The visual technology giant’s new video wall uses 108 MicroTiles is a visual canvas that rolls up to a full native resolution of 23,760 x …
Project: Shiny Baubles Go Interactive With PERCH June 10, 2013 by Super User A new pop-up jewelry store in NYC’s SOHO district opened up the other night with a cool little interactive piece put together BaubleBar by the guys at PERCH. PERCH, who some will remember had a nice little shoe demo thingdoodle at DSE this winter, set up an overhead projection-driven product area that let guest on …
Hungary’s Dension Debuts Android Digital Signage Player June 10, 2013 by Super User A Hungarian company best-known for making pro audio devices for the auto market has moved into the digital signage space, developing a purpose-built media player that runs on Android. Dension Ltd has developed a system on chip playback device and it will start shipping with Signagelive’s HTML5 platform. Called CPX-1, the product is being launched …
Rise Vision’s Digital Signage Platform Now Working On Raspberry Pi June 10, 2013 by Super User The ongoing push to drive technology costs pretty much right out of digital signage continues, and now a developer has taken Toronto-based Rise Vision’s free, open source platform and got it running on the ultra low cost Raspberry Pi micro PCs. The developer has a post on the Rise Forum: I have a working, full …
