16:9 Podcasts – Jenn Vail of E Ink On The Future of E-paper In Digital Signage April 11, 2018 by Super User E-paper has been around for 20-plus years and it has gradually been improving to a point that it makes operating, commercial and visual sense for digital signage applications. There are companies like Slovenia’s Visionect that do a really nice job of making small black and white displays look beautiful for applications that vary from meeting …
16:9 Podcasts – Reece Kurtenbach On Why Hyper-Competition Is Nothing New To Daktronics April 4, 2018 by Super User Reece Kurtenbach now runs Daktronics, the company started by his father and a university colleague 50 years ago – and has grown up seeing it evolve from electronic voting systems from state politicians to the maker behind some of the biggest and most iconic LED display boards on the planet. That’s Daktronics’ tech, for example, …
16:9 Projects Podcast: A 16K LED Ceiling On Chicago’s Magnificent Mile March 23, 2018 by Super User While shopping at Chicago’s Magnificent Mile mall patrons can look to the ceiling and see a 190 foot long canopy of trees. Or, if they look at another moment, they may see a kaleidoscope of colours or a flock of local birds. That’s because the skylight is actually a high definition LED canvas with content …
16:9 Podcasts: Guy Tonti Of Unified Brand Talks Auto Dealers, Neighborhood Networks And Winning On Jeopardy March 14, 2018 by Super User Auto dealerships have always been an environment well suited to digital signage. There are a lot of things to talk about and sell, and a lot of interest and buying comes down to things like the visual and emotional appeal of the vehicles. Guy Tonti’s company, Unified Brand, spends a lot of its time working …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Paul Weatherhead Talks About His Freelance AV Marketplace, AV Junction March 7, 2018 by Super User Paul Weatherhead was working for a systems integrator in Toronto, spending a lot of time trying to find and hire freelance pro AV contractors to do work for him on remote jobs. Like a lot of people in his position, he started thinking there had to be a better way. The difference is that he …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Bryan Crotaz Talks About Award-Winning, Data-Driven Signage At The Home Of Cricket February 28, 2018 by Super User The top prize at the Digital Signage Awards that were announced and handed out recently in Amsterdam was a project to modernize the display system at the cradle of cricket – Lord’s Cricket Ground in London. The project was pulled together by a small London consultancy called Silver Curve, which is run by one of …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Joaquim Lopes On 4YouSee And The Latin American Digital Signage Market February 21, 2018 by Super User I have traded emails with Joaquim Lopes for at least couple of years now, and he has been telling me about his company 4YouSee and its efforts providing software and services to the Latin American digital signage market. He was at Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam a couple of weeks ago, and when we finally …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Andrea Varrone Previews Digital Signage Expo 2018 February 14, 2018 by Super User Trade show managers like to attend other trade shows to see what’s going and how things are done, as well chat up exhibitors who might also want to hang a shingle at that trade show manager’s own event. So it was no surprise last week to find Andre Varrone – who runs Digital Signage Expo …
16:9 Projects Podcast: True Customer Experience At Toronto’s Air Jordan Store February 9, 2018 by Super User The new Air Jordan store, opened in downtown Toronto in 2017, is a three-story retail environment created with the notion of providing a true customer experience. It features an underground kids-only concourse, an industrial-designed retail level, and an upper athletic training facility. While digital signage is limited to just two areas on the top floor, …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: How To Build Digital Signage Ad Spots For As Little As $15 February 7, 2018 by Super User There’s no question that making a proper investment in creative is essential to successful digital signage networks, but there’s also no question that a lot of small businesses don’t have the budget for full motion graphic design work, or wouldn’t even know who to ask to do that work. A few companies have popped up …
