Tech Companies Team Up For OpenAV Cloud Initiative Aimed At Encouraging Interoperability May 21, 2025 by Super User A “coalition” of six fairly hefty AV manufacturers and tech providers have announced something called OpenAV Cloud, an industry initiative its founding members say was put together to make everything from flat panels and media players to microphones more interoperable. The founding members include Sony Electronics, Panasonic, Legrand, Shure, BrightSign, and Xyte. Planar and AUO …
Peerless-AV Makes Its Universal LED Wall Mount System Slimmer And Stronger May 21, 2025 by Super User The AV infrastructure firm Peerless-AV has announced a set of refinements to its SEAMLESS Connect Universal mounting system, with the idea that an evolved product makes it easier to get direct view LED video walls up tight and proper. The press release suggests the product is just launching but I know I wrote about it …
Scala Gets Beyond Just Populating Menu Displays With New Quintet QSR Automation Solution May 20, 2025 by Super User It seems obvious, but I remain surprised how many CMS software companies continue down the path of developing and marketing general solutions, when in most cases they should really be trying to zero in on solution and sector, and go deep with it. If your solution meets every or most needs, it’s probably broad but …
Display Week: LG Display Demos 4th-Gen OLED That Can Push 4,000 Nits May 15, 2025 by Super User One of the primary knocks, for the longest time, with large format OLED displays has been brightness, but LG is at the screen-nerd Display Week event this week in Silicon Valley talking up what it describes as 4th-generation OLED panels that can push as much as 4,000 nits. That is very bright – the sort …
Premier League’s Brighton Switches On UK’s First Transparent LED Glass Balustrade System May 14, 2025 by Super User There is a lot of building-grade glass out there, and as LED technology has improved and matured, it makes sense that glass surfaces will start doubling up as screens. There are not all that many reference cases outside of China, but here’s a high profile one in the UK – at the home grounds of …
Amsterdam’s Giant Schiphol Airport Switches On Programmatic For Its Internally-Run DOOH Media Network May 14, 2025 by Super User Advertising is present in pretty much every airport a traveler might come across, but the ad faces – static or digital – tend to be put in, managed and sold by third-party out of home media companies. But the company that runs Amsterdam’s sprawling airport, as well as two other Dutch airfields, does things differently. …
Pro-AV Business Showing Positive Indicators Despite Tariffs-Driven Uncertainties: AVIXA May 12, 2025 by Super User The Pro-AV business index generated month to month by trade association AVIXA’s market intelligence people suggests despite all the nutty uncertainty surrounding business conditions in the United States, the numbers for the industry actually look OK, at least so far. The May report, looking at April numbers and Q1, suggest that while tariff uncertainty continues …
Tabletop Tent Cards Go Digital With Viewneo’s Soon-To-Launch Dinio E-Paper Solution May 8, 2025 by Super User The German digital signage solutions firm viewneo has started previewing an interesting product that is a contemporary spin on the idea of using small form factor displays in in dining establishments as dynamic table tent cards – but with color e-paper instead of energy-hungry LCDs. CEO Manfred Ludtke tells me members of his Dusseldorf-based team …
10,500 Drones Light Up Vietnam Skyline In Sync’d Show, But There Were Issues … May 6, 2025 by Super User I’m not sure drone shows belong in the digital signage bucket, but I’m also not sure anyone should care about that. What is not subject to much debate is that synchronized swarms of drones can put on very large and impressive shows that put messaging up at epic scale in public places. Consider this show …
SID’s Display Week Expected To Highlight Advances In MicroLED, Color E-Paper: Futuresource May 6, 2025 by Super User The research firm Futuresource Consulting has pushed out a piece advancing display technologies it expects to see demonstrated at next week’s Society for Information Display event in San Jose, CA. The advancer, by Principal Consultant Ted Romanowitz, drafts off what he saw at Touch Taiwan, in Guess Where. As happens these days, much of the …
