LG TV Factory And Warehouse Hit By South Africa Rioting July 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes Hopefully, posts about riots and looting are not going to be a regular feature here, but here is a second story today of rioting and unrest – this one from South Africa. Trefor Brock, who runs DC Media in South Africa and has a marketplace site called Digital Signage Arena, sent along video of looters …
Leicester Square LED Board Takes Beating From Drunk England Fans Before Euro2020 Football Final July 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes If you are a football (soccer) fan you will know the European men’s final was played yesterday at London’s Wembley Stadium – a game that unfortunately went to penalty kicks after 30 minutes of extra time. Not a fan of PKs deciding huge games, but that’s a debate that’s raged in football for decades now. …
Daktronics Builds Adflow CMS Features Into Unified Platform That Can Manage Giant LEDs … And LCD Menu Displays July 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes It has been a few years since LED display manufacturer Daktronics waded into the smaller-format digital signage display sector with its acquisition of the Canadian software firm Adflow Networks, and now the content management software for giant LEDs and much smaller LCDs has been merged to a single product. The latest software update to Dak’s …
Samsung-driven Hair Salon Of The Future, With 50 Or So Screens, Opens In NJ July 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes The sheer number of hair and nail salons out there – what strip mall have you seen that doesn’t have one? – has always made the sector attractive as a vertical for digital signage technology. It helps that these environments have lotsa wait time, high loyalty and all kinds of high-margin products and services to …
Spectrio Buys Automobile Broadcasting Network, 4th Digital Signage Firm In Past Year July 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
