Pandemic Was, Weirdly, Best Of Times For Display Industry, While Recovery Is Worst Of Times: DSCC May 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes The digital display industry finds itself in this weird circumstance, says supply chain analyst Ross Young, in which the 2020-2021 pandemic period was actually pretty good, and now, as the recovery ramps up and inflation is rising, prices are down and the outlook is shaky. Display Supply Chain Consulting’s Young made that observation in a …
InfoComm Forecasting 20,000 Attendees, 525 Exhibitors For Almost-Back-To-Normal Vegas Show In June May 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes In the wake of last week’s Integrated Systems Europe, the folks at the trade association AVIXA (which co-owns ISE) are now putting the focus on InfoComm, the sister pro AV trade show in Las Vegas. Instead of ISE and InfoComm being a few months apart, they are a few weeks this year – the tight …
SID Says Display Week Saw Attendance Back At Pre-Pandemic Levels May 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes Photo credit: SimBeyond Hardcore pro display people would have been a bit torn last week, having to focus physically or online to what was happening and on show at a pair of industry trade shows and conferences nine time zones apart. While Integrated Systems Europe was on in Barcelona, Spain, the Society for Information Display’s …
PPDS Adds SaaS Remote Device Management Solution, Dubbed Wave, To Philips Pro Display Line-up May 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes PPDS, the sales front end of Philips’ pro display products and solutions, has launched a new cloud platform that builds advanced remote device management capabilities into screens that have embedded smarts. Called Wave, the “highly secure, intuitive and scalable remote device management platform” was developed by Philips/PPDS to help reduce the costs of installation and …
Sodaclick Adds AI-Driven Voice Interaction Platform To Its Content Solutions May 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes The London-area content creation start-up Sodaclick has expanded from providing SaaS-based HTML5 tools for on-screen creative into AI-driven voice interaction for screens. The particularly interesting wrinkle here is that the two technologies are somewhat intertwined – so that voice interaction at screens can be supported by custom creative generated within Sodaclick’s platform. Sodaclick Voice uses …
Only Connect: The Digital Signage Industry (And I) Return To ISE May 12, 2022 by James Matthews-Paul Guest Post: James Matthews-Paul, Silver Curve Is there anything new under the sun? For ISE, there’s a new location, certainly, in Barcelona, but whether or not this is reflected at the show in technology terms is a point of debate. Worth is not always priced in novelty or youth, however, a fact that is certainly …
Longtime Intel Digital Signage Lead Jose Avalos Launches IT Service Spin-Out May 12, 2022 by Dave Haynes It’s not really digital signage, but long-timers in this industry might be curious about what Jose Avalos is up to, now that he has left his long-running gig as the main guy at Intel on the digital signage file. Avalos is now Co-Founder, CEO & Chief Revenue Officer of an Intel spinoff called AustinGIS – …
SiliconCore Launches New LED Driver Tech It Suggests Will Help Shape Future Of Premium Video Walls May 11, 2022 by Dave Haynes While much of the AV world is focused on what’s on show at Integrated Systems Europe, there’s another display industry show on in Silicon Valley that caters to the crowd that thinks up, designs, tests and sometimes releases new display technologies. Display Week 2022 – run annually by the Society for Information Display – is …
Barco’s ClickShare Tech Gets Digital Signage-Enabled Via Signagelive Partnership May 11, 2022 by Dave Haynes As consumer and workplace devices have grown increasingly smart and reliably connected, it’s been natural for people on the technology side of digital signage to wonder if they could also function as media players. Barco’s ClickShare product line was introduced a few years ago as a means of enabling easy, almost seamless sharing from laptops …
Peerless-AV Broadens Custom LED Mounting Capabilities Via Acquisition Of ADF Visual Display Products May 11, 2022 by Dave Haynes Chicago-based display technology manufacturer Peerless-AV has broadened its display mounting capabilities into custom LED work, through the acquisition of the southern California firm ADF Visual Display Products. ADF has specialized in engineering and then building some of the more high profile and challenging direct view LED deployment jobs out there. The company has been acting …
