New Digital Poster Runs, Updates Off Solar January 29, 2013 by Dave Haynes The marketplace potential for monochromatic signs probably has a relatively low ceiling, but nonetheless there are theoretically lots of basic paper signs that could be replaced with this newest generation of electronic ink displays if the ROI made sense. Plastic Logic and SERELC have developed and are now marketing a low-power outdoor digital signage solution …
Low Bandwidth, High Quality H.265 Video Gets Standards OK January 28, 2013 by Dave Haynes In what’s kind of a big deal for ops guys and people who pay the bandwidth bills, the International Telecommunication Union has approved the H.265 video encoding standard, which means the same piece of video can have its file size reduced by half without compromising quality. So if you are moving a lot of video …
Capital’s Android Player Among 2012 Best Of Picks January 25, 2013 by Dave Haynes Congratulations to the folks at Capital Networks – sixteen:nine blog and 2013 mixer sponsors – who picked up the Product of the Year award from Signage Solutions magazine for its Audience For Android player. Dallas-based Signage Solutions has made Best Of picks in 12 industry categories. You can find all the picks here …
Christie Adds Outdoor Panels To Lesser-Known LCD Product Line January 24, 2013 by Dave Haynes LCD flat panels are definitely not products readily associated with Christie, which is a big, big player based on its projector technology and more recently its MicroTiles. But the company also does LCDs – or at least takes LCD technology and does its own spin on that display tech. Christie has had LCDs for a …
IAdea Releasing Seven New Digital Signage Devices January 22, 2013 by Dave Haynes IAdea has added to its list of appliances tuned to the needs of digital signage projects, with seven new devices that bake in emerging capabilities like HTML5. The Taiwanese company (a Sixteen:Nine sponsor) has released the new devices to sync up with appearances at Integrated Systems Europe at the end of the month and Digital …
RMG Networks Merger Puts Digital OOH Network On Path To Going Public January 18, 2013 by Dave Haynes Reach Media Group Holdings, Inc. (aka RMG Networks) has done a merger agreement with a venture capital firm that will enable the Digital OOH company to go public this year. The deal is with SCG Financial Acquisition Corp, which has listings on NASDAQ and two over the counter exchanges, and does these sorts of special purpose …
LG Debuts Projection System That Blasts 100-Inch Video From Inside Two Feet January 7, 2013 by Dave Haynes LG has its big press conference/product launch thingie at CES in Las Vegas this morning, and among the products is Hecto laser TV projector – a short-throw projector that can blast a properly composed 100-inch HD video onto a wall from less than two feet out. The interesting kicker here is that it can pull …
Video: Electronic Paper Gets Interactive, But Still Pretty Rough January 7, 2013 by Dave Haynes Electronic ink and e-paper technology has been around for more than a decade now, and while there have been some great strides, it’s pretty clear there is still a loooong way to go before this display technology takes more than a very basic role in digital signage projects. This is a video from the Human …
Add Vodigi To The Free Open Source Digital Signage Software List December 17, 2012 by Dave Haynes I stumbled on another company, called Vodigi, that’s offering free open-source software for the digital signage market. Not the bait and switch free of my favorite West Coast software spammers, but really free. Vodigi joins a short list that includes Xibo, Concerto, JADS, Screenly and Rise Vision, the latter by far the most commercial and …
Report: Symon Acquired By “Blank Check Company” December 17, 2012 by Dave Haynes I could probably read this convoluted news release 20 times and not get it entirely right – accountants and lawyers should not write press releases – but from what I can tell a “blank check company” called SCG Financial Acquisition Corp. has entered into a non-binding letter of intent to acquire digital signage software provider Symon Communications, Inc. …
