NYC Property Firm Equips Reception Area With Transparent OLED Showcase March 19, 2021 by Super User This is an interesting use for transparent OLED displays – the reception area for a commercial property company based in New York. There are three see-through OLEDs tiled together, fronting some sort of display case with, I think, engineered structural lumber and maybe some building models. The content includes beauty shots of properties as well …
C-Store Chain Kwik Trip Finishes 1,000+ Screen Rollout Across US Midwest March 19, 2021 by Super User The commercial display company PPDS, aka Philips, has announced the completion of a smart digital signage rollout to some 700 Kwik Trip convenience stores across the U.S. midwest. The c-store chain started a modernization program in 2018 and now has more than 1,000 screens in place – all of them Philips D-Line displays with embedded …
Giant Fine Pitch LED Video Walls Finding New Use Case As Virtual Movie Sets March 18, 2021 by Super User It has really been just three or four years since direct view LED started being demo’d and marketed as a screen alternative to projection for cinemas, and now we’re starting to see tangible examples of LED being used to make blockbuster movies and streaming series. Fine pitch LED has matured to a point that production …
Public Information Display Market Sagged By Almost 10% In COVID-19 Era: Research March 18, 2021 by Super User COVID-19 was bad for just about every industry, so it is no surprise that the digital signage display business had a rough 2020. New numbers from the research firm Omdia suggests overall 2020 public information display shipments were down 9.8% year-on-year. But, a little surprisingly, Latin America, Japan, and the China region actually saw some …
Feeding The Content Beast With “Machine-Generated Creative” March 17, 2021 by Super User Feeding the content beast – steadily dealing with the insatiable appetite of a digital signage network – has been an issue for as long as the industry has been around, and one that’s still not really solved. Data integration capabilities, scripting and presentation tools like HTML5 have made it possible to automate some messaging, which …
Almo Puts Last Week’s E4v Classes And Sessions Online, For On Demand Viewing March 16, 2021 by Super User The big Philly-based pro AV distributor Almo had the early spring version of its E4 Evolution (E4v) educational series last week, and has now put all the material online for a month to access on demand. The E4v Flex Experience is described as a “month-long, on-demand opportunity for integrators, end users and tech managers to access all …
Four Winds Merges With Irish Employee Communications Firm Poppulo March 15, 2021 by Super User Denver-based digital signage CMS firm Four Winds Interactive has merged with a company called Poppulo, which does email and mobile employee communication software. The combination is backed by Vista Equity Partners, the investment firm that had earlier taken a substantial ownership position in FWI. Says the PR: Through this merger, the combined business will serve 6,000+ customers, the …
Breakfast Evolves Mechanical Flip-Disc Signs As Kinetic, AI-Driven Artworks March 15, 2021 by Super User If you have been around the industry for a while and Digital Signage Expo was part of your travels, you may remember 4-5 years ago a Brooklyn studio called Breakfast showing its flip-disc displays off on one side of the exhibit hall floor. The company’s tech is not digital signage as we know it, but …
OnLogic Announces First Raspberry Pi-Based Industrial-Grade PC March 15, 2021 by Super User The Vermont industrial computer maker OnLogic has taken the interesting step of announcing its first Raspberry Pi-based industrial-grade PC, timing it in celebration of Pi Day. The little unit uses the latest CM4 Compute Module and is aimed at applications like factories, warehouses, and a range of IoT applications. The Pi 4 is also being …
SID Display Week Set For May 17-21, All Virtual For 2nd Year March 12, 2021 by Super User The Society for Information Display (SID) has opened registration for its annual Display Week trade show and conference, which will again be all virtual, running May 17-21. The event is an annual gathering of terrifyingly bright engineers and researchers in the information display sector, talking about ideas and advances in area like LED, OLED, Light …
