Philips Pro Displays Can Now Be Managed, Monitored From Crestron Controller Screens August 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes PPDS, the company that markets Philips commercial display solutions, has done an interesting tie-up with AV automation and integration giant Crestron that makes networked screens easily monitored and managed from Crestron’s XiO Cloud solution. The XiO Cloud platform makes it possible to remotely control a screen’s functions from a touchscreen Crestron AV systems controller – …
An LED Butterfly, Or Maybe Dragonfly, Lands At South China Airport August 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting solution to an architectural problem faced by whatever media company has the concession at the international airport in the southern Chinese city of Kunming. The big bulkhead between the up and down escalators is visually interrupted by a very large vertical support column. The standard solution would be to put separate …
Florida Developer Using LED Video Wall To Make Statement About Big Mixed-Use Project August 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes The developers of a big mixed-use site in Coral Gables, FL put in a giant fine pitch LED display in the main office tower lobby to make a statement about the project. The developer, Agave Ponce, wanted the display to make it clear the property was unique for the area. Mediterranean-styled Plaza Coral Gables is …
LG Now Marketing Full Digital Signage Solution, Inc. Software, For QSR Vertical August 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes If you are active on the software side of digital signage, you’ve undoubtedly seen Samsung evolving its MagicINFO software from a low or no-cost add-on for small jobs to a full-featured enterprise platform that competes against pure-play CMS software companies. LG has also had a product called SuperSign in the market for more than a …
Here’s A Big Virtual Waterfall On A Video Wall In A K-12 School. Yeah, A School. August 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an LED project and custom creative that’s a little mind-blowing for a couple of reasons. It’s a BIG fine pitch LED video wall in the new common area of a Christian K-12 school in Atlanta – albeit a private school that charges more than $25K a year in tuition and has four full-time …
Philly’s Airport Concourse Lined With Big, Wisely-Designed LED Ad Columns August 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes This a great example of an OOH media company using LED display to visually dominate a space, while also factoring in the practical risks of putting a lot of sensitive technology in a very busy environment. It is the airport in Philadelphia, on a concourse that has a long series of LED displays on support …
Large Format LED Display Sales Returning To Pre-Pandemic Levels: Omdia Research August 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes The latest data from research firm Omdia’s LED Video Displays Market Tracker suggests the video wall market is coming back to pre-pandemic sales levels, and the biggest market demand is for fine pitch product. The recovery of the fine pixel pitch (FPP) category, which includes <=1.99mm, is noticeably faster than other wider pixel pitch categories …
That Tech Start-Up That Says It’s Putting A DOOH Screen In Space: It’s A Cube Half The Size Of A Toaster, And The Ad Would Be Streamed. Groan. August 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes I am immediately declaring that I have no idea WTF these people are going on about, but my general sense is that an energy technology startup in Calgary is hoping to put a form of digital out of home ad screen in space, getting it up there via SpaceX. The plans are riddled with references …
Rising COVID Cases In EU Force Cancellation Of Digital Signage Summit In Munich August 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes The accelerated push back to normalcy and vaccine hesitancy or denials has taken out yet more plans for industry events this fall – with news overnight that the annual Digital Signage Summit in Germany has been cancelled. Invidis, the longtime event’s Munich-based organizers, say the “current pandemic development as well as the health requirements for …
Will Vaccine Passport Kiosks Catch On As A Common Tool For Safe Access To Venues? August 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes In the early months of the pandemic, there was a flurry of activity in the area of kiosks and tablets that were adapted for use as automated temperature screening kiosks for everything from airports to workplaces and even retail. I’ve seen little evidence, in terms of announcements or case studies, to suggest they ever really …
