LED Mainstreamed: B.C. Golf Resort Hotel Adds 63-Foot Fine Pitch Video Wall For Weddings And Meetings November 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes In another sign that LED video walls are now a mainstreamed pro AV and digital signage solution, here is a giant 256-cabinet LED wall in the multi-purpose room of a resort hotel in Victoria, B.C. The ballroom video wall at the Westin Bear Mountain Golf Resort & Spa is 63 feet wide and 9 feet …
This Is National World Needs More Touch Day (And National Bundt Pan Day) November 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes In a clever, cheeky marketing move, the folks at TSItouch have registered with a service that marks today at The World Needs More Touch Day – which also happens to be the touch overlay company’s tag line. Says the listing on the National Day Archives listings site: World Needs More Touch Day serves to bring …
Check Out This Super-Nice, Very Different Digital Lobby Experience At Uber’s HQ (with Video) November 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is super-nice and wonderfully different from a lot of the digital display work that’s going into big company HQ buildings – a two-storey digital art experience in the lobby of Uber’s new head office in the Mission Bay district of San Francisco. The ride-sharing giant hired the Brooklyn-based design firm Hush Studios, and used Electrosonic …
Digital Signage Federation Starts Vote For New and Renewed Board Members November 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Federation is in the process of electing new board members, with a very good crowd of candidates for the five open positions. The people running for the spots are: Frank Pisano of BrightSign, who is seeking a second term; Kym Frank of Intermx (previously of Geopath); Tony Green of Snap Install; Michael …
Finn Telecoms Retailer Greets Customers With OLED Display Canopy November 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes Via Invidis The Finnish telecommunications group Elisa has a store in Helsinki’s Mall of Tripla, quite close to its headquarters building. The shop is interesting, reports my friends at the German language publisher invidis, because it is using LG’s wallpaper-thin, flexible OLED displays as a canopy above shoppers as they walk in. Next to an …
Digital Display Kiosks Doubles Up As Storage Lockers For First Responder Emergency Needs November 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s a very different take on adding functionality to outdoor digital display kiosks that mostly tend to exist as advertising faces – a locker on the side of the display that stores critical items used by first responders when something bad goes down. The LA-area manufacturer Olea has worked with a New Jersey company – …
To No One’s Surprise, Last Month’s InfoComm Saw Attendee Numbers Down By 70%-85% November 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes AVIXA has released the numbers for its 2021 InfoComm trade show, run in Florida couple of weeks ago. As anyone paying attention expected, the numbers were way down. Verified attendance was 7,335, a little more than half of the 14,017 who registered to attend. The AVIXA press release does not say if the verified total …
Spectrio Launches White-Label, Turnkey Digital Signage Reseller Partners Program November 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes Part of my on-boarding with Spectrio – when Sixteen:Nine was acquired by the fast-growing and fast-acquiring software firm – involved me asking how the company sold its many and varied services and software options. I got the rundown, including an indication of how Spectrio was building up a partner channel. Now Spectrio has announced a …
LED On Foil Reduces Weight Of Billboard-Sized Building Screen To Just 110 Pounds November 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes One of the challenges faced by media companies or building owners who want to put up an LED digital billboard on the top or side of a commercial building is sorting out the engineering implication of the additional weight, and how the screen is mounted. In some cases, there might be additional construction or reinforcement …
Saudi Entertainment Complex Emulates Times Square On What Was A Patch Of Sand Four Months Ago November 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is just nutty in terms of the scope, scale and speed at which it came together – a massive retail and entertainment complex that went from a big patch of sand in Riyadh to fully operational and ready for the Saudi public in just four months. The Riyadh City Boulevard development opened this week, …
