Wireless Power For Displays Is Here … Kinda Sorta September 1, 2022 by Super User One of the reasons ops and deployment people who are active in digital signage and AV companies tend to insist on doing site visits and surveys before starting on projects is that they want to see what they’re up against with the location, and check on things like the availability of power. Often, there’s no …
Lenovo Debuts Micro Form-Factor Chromebox Enterprise Aimed At Use-Cases Like Digital Signage September 1, 2022 by Super User PC maker Lenovo has introduced a variant of its ThinkCenter line of computers geared to ChromeOS applications, including digital signage. The ThinkCenter M60q Chromebox Enterprise is a micro form-factor desktop intentionally small enough to tuck in and mount out of the way, like behind flat panel displays or inside enclosures. The pitch with Chrome devices …
UK’s The Led Studio Launches Fine-Pitch LED Unit For Outdoor Ad Displays; Designed To Supplant LCDs August 31, 2022 by Super User I tend to be very reticent to go with claims that something is a world-first, because there’s almost always something else that actually was first, but a new LED display set-up from The LED Studio is definitely among the first of its kind, and an indication of what’s going to come (probably) in a big …
Google Formally Enters Digital OOH; Adds Public Screens To Avails On Display & Video 360 August 30, 2022 by Super User Tech giant Google is finally, formally, plugged into digital OOH advertising – a logical expansion of options built off many years of enabling and servicing online ads that started as text but then moved to graphics and video. Google has announced companies already using its Display & Video 360 tools can now also access media …
Many Screens In Germany’s DOOH Industry Restricted To Running For Just Six Hours Daily August 29, 2022 by Super User Those energy consumption mandates going in place for Germany are more restrictive than first thought, with a clarification that screens used for non-essential purposes like advertising can only operate six hours per day. Our German language content partner Invidis, based in Munich, reports: The new Energy Saving Ordinance of the Federal Ministry of Economics actually …
MRI Sues Samsung, Files International Trade Complaint Citing Infringement Of Outdoor Display Patents August 26, 2022 by Super User Atlanta-based custom display manufacturer Manufacturing Resources International (MRI) is going after Samsung in court, and both Samsung and some key business partners via the US International Trade Commission, citing patent infringements with respect to high-brightness outdoor and window displays. I covered courts for maybe a couple of days, a million years ago, when I was …
UK Start-up Targets Students With (Hopefully Rugged) Ad Screens In Student Housing Halls August 26, 2022 by Super User I have seen the necessarily ruggedized common areas and amenities of university student housing as a visiting parent, and twitch at the thought of trying to keep digital screens on the wall and running in that alcohol-impaired and testosterone-rich environment, but a UK start-up is nonetheless building out a digital OOH network in exactly those …
GSTV, Ara Labs Partner On Deploying, Marketing Screens Adjacent To EV Charging Units August 26, 2022 by Super User Given the eye-watering price of electric vehicles, we can assume it will be quite some time before conventional gas stations are mothballed. But it nonetheless makes sense for a company whose business is built on the wide presence of fuel dispensers to think ahead and branch into EV charging stations. Destination Media, the place-based media …
Synect, YCD The Big Winners For 2022 Global Digital Signage Awards August 25, 2022 by Super User The results of the global Digital Signage Awards for 2022 are now out, with the Grand Prix winners YCD and Synect, for work done in airports. The awards – Sixteen:Nine is a primary sponsor – were judged by an international panel of people who actually work in the industry, and not just as trade journalists …
More Detail On Germany’s Energy Savings-Focused Digital Signage And DOOH Restrictions August 25, 2022 by Florian Rotberg Partner Post: Florian Rotberg, Invidis This post originally appeared on the site of Sixteen:Nine’s German language content partner, Invidis. On Wednesday, the federal government approved two energy-saving regulations which, among other things, also restrict the operation of illuminated and self-illuminating advertising systems (DooH, digital signage in shop windows). An exception was considered for outdoor advertising. …
