PumpTop TV starts weekly programming guide August 3, 2010 by Super UserIt is fair, I think, to suggest that many, many DOOH networks have a limited grasp of their programming schedule and follow a particularly well-traveled road as to what’s on the screen. Then there’s PumpTop TV. I’ve no business relation to these folks but have written about them a few times because they think outside …
The problem with big round numbers July 29, 2010 by Super UserI was just reading a press release about a media network’s plans to increase its footprint by 1,000 locations, starting with 500 by the end of Q3. That may be entirely true, but as someone who has talked to hundreds of early stage network operators over the years, my BS Filter starts shaking and spitting …
Nice many-many tiled display in Austrian club July 28, 2010 by Super UserMontreal-based Matrox has put out a case study about an impressive install at a club in Linz, Austria. In a nutshell, 40 big flat panels are tiled together and running around the perimeter of the venue. The system runs off three Mac Pros and drives 15 Matrox triple-head video thingdoodles. If I am reading the …
Sony's new concept store appears to totally skip in-store video July 28, 2010 by Super UserSuppose you were one of the world’s great consumer electronics brands, with a reputation for premium displays, and you decided to change up the retail design for a concept store. You’d make good use of those displays to tell the brand story and communicate with shoppers, right? Well, no. You’d print up some signs and …
Does user-friendly mean anything anymore? July 28, 2010 by Super UserI noted with some interest that a Mac-based digital signage software vendor called NextGen DS has officially announced this week that it will now be known as Media Sign Pro. I’ve been aware of this company for two or three years but have not seen a demo or anything because the guys behind it don’t …
Digital signage for queues controlled by dead-simple touch UI July 26, 2010 by Super UserThe queue management systems business seems really well suited to bolting digital signage on to the offers, since you have people in lines or crowded waiting rooms starting at at a little screen as the numbers count up and down to the time when they can get served. That little screen gets a lot of …
This week's Top 5 July 23, 2010 by Super UserSo, some weeks – particularly if I am on the road – I am lucky to produce five posts. But this week I was well past that, and here are the ones that seemed to wind people’s watches. 400 digital signage software companies, and counting … Barco buys dZine software firm Zombie Queen Mary yanked from …
Just one station, but much bigger deal July 22, 2010 by Super UserThe Friedrichstrasse Underground Station in downtown Berlin is thought to be the first subway platform around that is completely and exclusively tooled up with digital advertising displays. The German company Wall AG put the project, and the first domination advertiser – running this month – is Intel. The station has 12 projection surfaces on the …
AR app brings old street life back in London July 21, 2010 by Super UserI struggle, a little, with the notion of many of us walking the streets and corridors of our daily lives with smartphones in front of our faces, taking in all the augmented reality enhancements. Will we need to start wearing helmets because we keep crashing into each other as we stare at little screens instead …
Zombie Queen Mary yanked from London digital escalator campaign July 20, 2010 by Super UserFrom London – via the Telegraph – comes news that a marketing campaign on digital screens that cascade down the sides of escalator areas in the London Tube system have been pulled because they were, well, too effective. They were scaring the crap out of little kids. An advert for the London Dungeon has been …
