Velocity Marks Halfway Point In 4,000 Screen Rollout On Redbox DVD Rental Units December 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes (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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Questex Partners With SEGD, OAAA And DPAA For Rebooted DSE’s Conference Efforts December 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes The company putting together a reboot of DSE – with the tweaked title of Digital Signage Experience – has added partnerships with three industry associations that are directly and indirectly tied into the digital signage marketplace as end-users. Questex has announced the advertising-focused DPAA (ad networks) and OAAA (billboards), and design-centric SEGD have all signed …
LG Canada Plans Dec. 8-9 Showcase And Conference For Downtown Toronto November 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Canadian wing of LG’s commercial display and signage business has organized a showcase and conference for two days in downtown Toronto early next week. The event will be at the Rec Room, a big dining and entertainment complex in the shadow of the Rogers Centre (where the Blue Jays play) and not terribly far …
Chinese Mall Uses Transparent LED Light Rings As Atrium Canopy November 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s a very different, interesting take on the idea of LED canopy ceilings in places like malls and public buildings – a series of suspended circles that are animated by transparent LED. It is a mall somewhere in Asia, and uses the transparent LED mesh product from NEXNOVO. The mall atrium has a series of …
Meeting Room Entry Gets Serious Upgrade With Transparent OLED Sliding Doors November 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s a real world – albeit as real world as deep-pocketed Dubai can be – of a venue using sliding glass entry doors embedded with transparent OLED displays. This is the entrance to a meeting room at an office somewhere in Dubai, using the door-slider mechanisms of a company called ASSA ABLOY, which has a …
Finnish Volvo Dealers Make Digital Signage Central To Marketing, Built Into Furnishings November 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes We had an unfortunate twilight run-in wth a deer on the highway – wife Joy fine, deer not – so we’ve been in a few new car showrooms lately, anticipating the call from the shop saying the car’s a write-off. So I have seen how some local dealers are building digital signage into their environments. …
Dec. 2nd Telelogos Webinar Explores Monetizing Digital Signage Networks Via Advertising November 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes The total advertising spend in the Digital OOH media sector is predicted to nearly double by 2023, which understandably gets a lot pf people using digital signage technologies thinking and talking about what hardware and software to use, and what monetization models genuinely work for different kinds of venues and scenarios. It also opens up …
