Exertis/DCC Says Almo Acquisition Makes It Largest Pro Av Distributor In North America December 15, 2021 by Super User More consolidation news out of the pro AV sector this morning, with word that the big global technology distributor Exertis has acquired a U.S. rival, Almo Corporation. The deal is technically DCC Technology doing the deal, with that Irish company doing business as the Exertis brand. It comes on the heels of Exertis also acquiring …
Swedish Solutions Provider Visual Art Wins Deal For 15,000 Screens For Finn Retail Group December 13, 2021 by Super User Digital signage has matured through the years to a state that networks announced with 1,000s of screens is no longer big, encouraging news, but I still think it’s a pretty big deal to get word of a screen network that would hit 1,500 stores and have some 15,000 displays. The Swedish solutions provider Visual Art …
BrightSign, Four Winds Take Over 1,000 End-Point Screen Network For Big Plumbing Supplier December 10, 2021 by Super User BrightSign and Four Winds Interactive have released details on what would have been a very nice swap-out win for the two companies – updating roughly 1,000 end-points across the wide U.S. network of a big wholesaler of commercial and residential plumbing supplies. A case study brief on the deal suggests the supplier – Ferguson – …
Tech-Filled SoFi Stadium’s CTO Set For Keynote At DSE; Sony In As Sponsor/Exhibitor December 9, 2021 by Super User The company re-booting DSE as Digital Signage Experience has announced a second keynote speaker for the March trade show and conference – the CTO of a technology-filled new sports stadium in Los Angeles. Skarpi Hedinsson oversees the technology set-up for SoFi Stadium – the home field for the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams AND the Los …
First Arriving’s Digital Dashboard Displays Add Real-Time Dispatch Info To Content Options December 7, 2021 by Super User I’ve noted in recent weeks my enthusiasm for the absolute focus a small tech company called First Arriving has placed on its narrowly defined but big vertical market – digital dashboards on displays in police, fire and paramedics stations. The company – based in Richmond, VA – has developed and announced a new data integration …
Have A Virtual Look Around Skykit’s Sleek, Minimalist Twin Cities Digs December 6, 2021 by Super User The CMS software firm Skykit spun out from its cloud software parent Agosto back in March 2020, and the team now has its own sleek, minimalist office digs in Minneapolis – nice enough to attract a feature on a site called OfficeLovin’. “The new Skykit office space is a retreat; a place to focus, reboot …
Velocity Marks Halfway Point In 4,000 Screen Rollout On Redbox DVD Rental Units December 3, 2021 by Super User Probably like many to most people, I kind of assumed the DVD and gaming rental business was largely a thing of the past, and people just streamed movies and downloaded games. But a company called Redbox has some 4,000 vending machine stations across the U.S. – half now that have digital signage screens that promote …
Toronto Mega-Mall Uses PORTL’s Hologram-ish Displays To Run Virtual Fashion Shows Through Holiday Season December 3, 2021 by Super User (Image: Dustin Fuhs) An “activation” that’s somewhere between interesting and gimmick-y used one of PORTL’s transparent LCD set-ups to do a virtualized fashion show at one of Canada’s biggest shopping malls, starting this week and running through the holiday season. The retail property owner Cadillac Fairview has one of the shower-stall like set-ups in the …
VESA Standards People Open-Source Some 28,000 High-Rez Image And Video Files For Display R&D Work December 2, 2021 by Super User Hat Tip Display Daily for finding this … The Video Electronics Standards Association – aka VESA- has taken the interesting step of making more than 28,000 high-resolution, high dynamic range (HDR) image and video content files available for unrestricted public use and free to download. The move is positioned as a way of getting much …
Hershey School Use Large-Scale Projections, Interactive Displays To Tell Story In Its Founders Hall December 2, 2021 by Super User I did not know that buying Hershey’s chocolate products helps fund a boarding school in Pennsylvania that provides a high-level but free education to 1,000s of kids from working-class, lower-income families. The Milton Hershey School, named after the famous chocolatier, has been providing free education to primary through high school kids for more than a …
