Spectrio Buys Automobile Broadcasting Network, 4th Digital Signage Firm In Past Year July 8, 2021 by Super User The Tampa-area in-store digital solutions firm Spectrio continues to grow through acquisition, with news that it has bought Automotive Broadcasting Network (ABN), which is focused on auto dealers. The company is based on the other side of the state in Jacksonville. The deal, based on ABN’s installed footprint, makes Spectrio the largest digital signage software …
Tokyo Airport Duty-Free Uses LED All The Way Down To Merchandising Counters July 7, 2021 by Super User It’s rare to see a new-build store kitted out with digital displays BEFORE it gets merchandised and opened up, so this is an interesting little video showing fine pitch LED used all over a duty-free shop at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. The duty-free is working with the Shenzhen-based but Japanese market-focused LED firm Shisai Optoelectronics. The …
Navori Debuts 2nd-Gen HDMI Stix Player That Does High-Frame Rate 4K But Costs $249 July 6, 2021 by Super User Ruggedization seems to be an evolutionary thing in the digital signage sector, with consumer hardware gradually giving way to more industrialized devices with time and experience. We’ve seen it with PCs and set-top boxes, and now that’s happening with HDMI sticks. Some of the first ones on the market, like the Dell stick and units …
50-Meter Wide 12K LED Barge Set For Tokyo Oympics Sailing Contests July 5, 2021 by Super User While the content world is still pretty early on the adoption curve for 8K, there is already activity happening and real-world demos of 12K video. Japan has arguably been the earliest adopter of high-res video and spectators at specific events at the Olympics around Tokyo later this month will be able to take in live …
Giant Digital Cat Looms Over Exit To World’s Busiest Subway Station July 5, 2021 by Super User Here’s another wraparound LED board on a building corner that’s using creative that does an anamorphic illusion – this time in Tokyo. Called Cross Shinjuku Vision, the P6 DOOH ad board is on a rounded corner of a new building above the east exit of Shinjuku Station, which handles 3.5 million people PER DAY (you are …
Globe-shaped MSG Sphere project marks milestone in Las Vegas July 2, 2021 by Super User There is a “topping out” ceremony planned for today at the construction site of the Madison Square Garden Sphere, the $1.8 billion entertainment and media venue going up in behind the Venetian and Sands Expo in Las Vegas. The globe-shaped venue is expected to be open by 2023 and it will feature what is touted …
More Supply Chain Woes – Costs For Shipping By Sea Container Up More Than 500% July 2, 2021 by Super User There has been lots of discussion the last few months about the industry impacts of shortages of everything from semi-conductors to glass and even wood pallets for shipping, but now we’re learning there’s another, very different supply chain problem – shipping costs. The painfully high costs of air freight see most manufacturers using the much …
Samsung Launches Its 24″ All-In-One Kiosk And Supporting Software Partner Ecosystem June 30, 2021 by Super User
Employee Experience Platform HubEngage Adds Digital Signage Capabilities June 29, 2021 by Super User Numerous digital signage software and solutions companies are pushing hard into the workplace as a vertical, so it should not be terribly surprising that software companies focused on other kinds of workplace messaging are pushing into digital signage. Companies like Zoom, for example, have added digital signage capabilities to its popular video meeting platform. Now …
Nissan Crossover Busts Its Thames-side LED Display Case, Using Anamorphic Illusion June 29, 2021 by Super User This is a temporary, pop-up digital marketing display for a Nissan vehicle on the banks of the Thames in London, using the same anamorphic illusion techniques seen lately on corner LED displays in China and South Korea. As with all of these LED projects, clever motion graphic design creates the illusion that the visuals are …
