ISE Opens Registration For Early 2023 Edition Of The Giant Pro AV Trade Show October 6, 2022 by Dave Haynes Registration has now opened for Integrated Systems Europe 2023, which is set to run January 31st to February 3rd in Barcelona, Spain. The biggest pro AV trade show on the planet has, as I type this, 656 registered exhibitors, with 216 of those identifying in some fashion as being in digital signage. Experience and common …
PPDS Parent Company TPV Sets Up Global Community Support And Giving Program October 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes The big electronic manufacturer TPV, which among many things makes the displays marketed under the Philips brand by PPDS, has created and launched a new foundation intended to provide technology as well as financial and volunteer support for deserving community projects around world. Called TPV Cares, the foundation “harnesses the talents of (TPV’s) teams and …
French Theme Park Creates 360-Degree LED Theater For Tornado-Chaser Experience October 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes Via AV Interactive … Tornadoes are mainly associated with the US Midwest, but they also happen in other areas and countries – including France. There’s enough of an interest in twisters, and the weather violence that they generate, that a theme park in France has invested more than 21 million EU to create a new …
Appspace Deepens Google Ties With Chrome Enterprise Integration October 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes The workplace-focused software firm Appspace has a long history of developing tight ties with tech giants, going back to the years when it was largely joined at the sales hip with Cisco. More recently, the company has been working with Google, and those ties are now more formalized through what’s termed as Appspace for Google. …
NHL Makes In Arena Rinkboards Digital, But Only Virtually October 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes I don’t know if this qualifies as digital signage or digital out of home, but whatever the case, a move by the National Hockey League to virtually digitize the boards that surround playing surfaces is quite interesting. The NHL is debuting what it calls Digitally Enhanced Dasherboards (DEDs) that allow dynamic, targeted advertising for its …
NYC’s Historic Tin Building Gets What’s Described As Biggest US Install Of LED-Embedded Glass October 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes What is described as the largest US Installation of architectural-grade LED-embedded media glass has been switched on at the newly renovated Tin Building in NYC’s South Street Seaport District. The historic building uses some 1,140 square feet of 20mm transparent LED glass on a divider between the marketplace area and the escalator – allowing patrons …
PC Chip Shortage Has Swung To Oversupply Situation; Samsung Cuts Sales Forecast by Almost One-Third October 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes There are indications that the semiconductor supply chain issues that tightened availability of electronics components and extended manufacturing and delivery times on key components has eased, and that the situation has already swung to an oversupply situation because of slumping demands for PC products. Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has lowered its sales …
Proto Secures U.S. Patent For Its Method Of Doing Hologram-ish Displays September 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes The LA start-up Proto now has a U.S. patent for its method of capturing people and subjects on a white screen and relaying that visual in real-time to a custom transparent LCD screen and enclosure, creating what I tend to describe as a hologram-ish visual experience. The company, which has evolved its brand from PORTL, …
Shipping Container Costs Have Dropped 50%-60% From COVID-era Peak September 12, 2022 by Dave Haynes I don’t write much about shipping container costs because I know very little about that whole thing, but I do know those costs skyrocketed through the pandemic, and that affected prices for large items like displays. Which brings me to the good news, I think, that costs are dropping in a big way. A publication …
Transparent LED On Film Offers New Life And Option For Projected Illusion Creative September 12, 2022 by Dave Haynes Regular readers will have come across many, many posts here about different display technologies and visual tricks that create visual illusions generally labeled as holograms or holographic, though they’re not … really. We’ve seen transparent LCDs, transparent OLEDs, projections of transparent film and those spinning LED light sticks. But I had not really thought about …
