Dave Haynes: The Exit Interview May 26, 2025 by Super User This podcast is a bit different, as I am on the other side of the interview table – answering questions instead of asking them. That’s because this is the last Sixteen:Nine podcast with me as the host. I’ve been doing Sixteen:Nine for almost 20 years, and the podcast version for the last nine. I’m retiring. …
Gene Hamm Relates How Digichief Aggregates, Curates And Creates Consistent Content For Digital Signage Networks May 21, 2025 by Super User Digichief has been helping digital signage and DOOH network operators feed the so-called content beast for a bunch of years. While the Kentucky-based company started up in 2007, its roots go back another decade to a tech start-up that did similar graphics-driven content work for broadcast TV. I’ve known co-founder Gene Hamm forever, but this …
Tod Puetz Shares How Insane Impact Got Some 500 LED Display Trailers On Market, And How Firm Stayed Ahead Of Electronics Tariffs April 30, 2025 by Super User If you go to big outdoor sports events, concerts in parks or even political rallies, there’s a reasonable chance that what’s happening is going to be relayed on a portable LED display that was wheeled into place by trailer. My local footy team uses one and it is old and looks terrible. But that’s …
Jose Behar On The Stealthy Success Of Texas-based CMS Software Shop Zynchro April 23, 2025 by Super User Every so often I’ll get a call or email from an industry friend asking me about a software company called Zynchro, because they were in the mix, or the incumbent, on some sort of deal that was in play. Yes, I’d say. I’ve heard of them. But that was about it. Well, that’s changed, as …
SmarterSign’s Gregg Zinn On Mastering And Optimizing Digital Menu Board Layouts And Designs April 16, 2025 by Super User Digital menu boards have long been marketed and positioned as a way to deal digitally with how what’s available to order can change through a business day. I’d argue much of the critical thinking around how to do menu boards well hasn’t progressed much beyond ensuring the item descriptions and prices are large enough for …
InfoComm’s New Show Director Jenn Heinold Previews What To See And Expect For June In Orlando April 9, 2025 by Super User The next plus-sized pro AV trade show on the annual calendar is InfoComm, coming up in mid-June in, yuck, Orlando, Florida. I’m always curious about what will be new and different with the show, and that’s particularly the case in 2025, because there’s a new person running things. Jenn Heinold joined show owner/operator AVIXA late last …
Display Analysts Ted Romanowitz and Morris Garrard Of Futuresource Review Highlights And Observations From ISE 025 April 1, 2025 by Super User The UK-based research and advisory firm Futuresource Consulting sends a big team every year to the ISE trade show in Barcelona, and then a few weeks later releases a big report that serves as a technical recap for the pro AV community – both for people who could not attend, and for people like me …
Jacob Horwitz Explains The Thinking Behind Illuminology – A Boutique AV Distribution Company Focused Just On Digital Signage March 25, 2025 by Super User All kinds of people in this industry are very aware that while there is lot of dodgy stuff, there is also lots of well made display technology available from Chinese manufacturers who have zero brand recognition outside of that country. Buy potential buyers don’t tend to have the time or resources to make the big …
Alastair Taft Of Tasmania’s Luna Screens Explains His Approach To Really Simple Digital Signage Software March 17, 2025 by Super User The work on the big Future Displays report and then ISE kind of threw me off my weekly podcast routine, but we’re back now – with a couple of interviews recorded, and more that are scheduled. First up is Alastair Taft, a software developer based in Hobart, Tasmania – which for the map-impaired is a …
Podcasts On Way March 12, 2025 by Super User The work on the big Future Displays report and then ISE kind of threw me off my weekly podcast routine, but I am getting my scheduling act back together and have one interview recorded and in audio production, another set for tomorrow and another one for next week. So we’ll get back to a more …
