ITN Brings IP Control Room Latency Down to 1–1.5 Frames Across Ten 4K Multiviewers December 10, 2025 by John Berkovich ITN Productions has put a new, fully IP production control room (PCR) on air, powering daily news bulletins for a major UK public broadcaster. The system is notable for delivering multiviewer latency of just 1–1.5 frames across ten 4K displays, a response time more commonly associated with baseband galleries than all-IP environments. Techex designed the …
RIP BSOD: New Windows Digital Signage Mode Fades Blue Screens Of Death To Black November 24, 2025 by Super User Anyone who’s made a career in the digital signage industry groans when she or he sees a screen – especially a BIG and public screen – sporting the infamous Blue Screen of Death. Or a Windows pop-up error message floating on top of playlisted content. That’s kinda sorta going away because of an update from …
Hackers Target LA Metro’s E-Paper Bus Stop Displays November 5, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger E-paper screens can also be vulnerable to cyberattacks – a fact demonstrated recently in downtown Los Angeles. According to local news outlet KTLA, several LA Metro bus stop displays temporarily showed a bomb warning message instead of displaying waiting times for buses. The altered message read: “Emergency Warning. Leave immediately. Risk of Suicide Bomb.” A …
Op-Ed: The Dirty Secret About Compliance and Digital Signage Security August 23, 2025 by Florian Rotberg In a provocative op-ed, Screenly Co-Founder Viktor Petersson exposes a critical blind spot in digital signage security: the illusion of safety created by compliance badges like SOC 2 and ISO 27001. While these certifications do improve general IT hygiene – mandating disaster recovery plans, MFA, and device management – they often exclude the very hardware …
Linutop Releases New Version of Its Lightweight OS June 27, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger The French software company Linutop has announced the release of Linutop OS 25, an operating system that is designed to convert standard x86 PCs into digital signage or kiosk systems to offer a lightweight and secure solution. Linutop says it specializes in energy-efficient IT solutions based on open-source software. Key features of the OS include automatic …
FAFO: Fired Disney World Manager Gets Three Years Jail For Monkeying With Park Menu Boards May 9, 2025 by Super User In a clear example of F*** Around and Find Out, a former Walt Disney World employee who responded to his firing by using his unrevoked system access to monkey with and disable the park’s digital menus has been handed a three-year prison sentence and ordered to pay almost $700,000 USD in restitution. While that, at …
Using MagicINFO Server? A Vulnerability With Maximum Severity Discovered (And Patched) May 1, 2025 by Super User I only reluctantly wade into cybersecurity stuff, because much of it is way the hell over my empty head. But this seems like something important to at least relay to network operators and integrators who use Samsung’s mostly legacy MagicINFO CMS software. As you likely know, Samsung has made MagicINFO available for many years, but …
That Canadian QSR’s Menu Displays Were Compromised, Taken Over, Using Phishing April 17, 2025 by Super User I’ve not seen anything formally from the operator or its suppliers about that system-wide hack last week of digital menu displays at a Canadian QSR chain, but Sixteen:Nine’s German language content partner invidis got some in-bound clarity about what happened. About this time last week the order counter and drive-thru displays at Mary Brown’s Chicken …
Some 300 Stores In QSR Chain See Menu Displays Hacked By Pro-Palestine Activists April 10, 2025 by Super User Hacks of digital screens happens here and there, but a recent one involving a Canadian QSR chain was particularly bad because it appears to have been network-wide, affecting the menu board displays at the order counter AND outdoor screens in the drive-thru. So not just one or two stores because someone used PASSWORD as the …
Proto’s Virtual Presence Healthcare Solutions Now HIPAA-Compliant March 12, 2025 by Super User Marketing of display products that claim some type of hologram-ish visual effect has focused heavily on the whiz-bangery of the experience, and it is easy to forget that other technical aspects need to come into play for specific use-cases – like compliance with security and privacy standards in sensitive industries like health care. Among the …
