Big Sales Growth Being Tracked For Flat Panel Displays Through NA Pro AV Channel: PMA Research April 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes If you are looking for signs of Pro AV sector being re-animated, here’s data from PMA Research (which does guess what) suggesting commercial flat panel demand has ticked up. The market research firm’s sales tracking report on large-format flat panel displays sold in the North American Pro AV channel were up substantially, monthly and year …
Call For Workplace Digital Signage Visuals April 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes I need workplace digital signage visuals. The Sixteen:Nine Special Report on workplace that I am actively banging away on is far enough along that I am starting to block and tackle the layout and factor in images, so I can then hand it off to a graphic designer to make it look presentable. I have …
Tim Hortons Halfway Through Massive Drive-Thru Display Refresh; Using Samsung, Melitron, STRATACACHE April 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes Winning big deployment deals with big brands is a wonderful thing for just about any technology vendor, but it often comes with the proviso that the vendor can’t make any PR noise about it. Most vendors have big or even whale clients they only talk about in conversations, and don’t list those clients on websites …
Lextar Demos Super Fine-Pitch 0.46mm MiniLED Video Display; Transparent MicroLED April 28, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Taiwan tech company Lextar has taken the curious step of announcing what will be on display LAST WEEK at the Touch Taiwan trade show – noting some interesting new mini and micro LED display products. More normally, tech marketers would push out this kind of information ahead of a show, or on opening day. …
Taiwan’s Neousys Debuts Rugged Box That’s AI-Ready And Does 4 4K 60fps Outs April 27, 2021 by Dave Haynes The digital signage world may have shifted quite a bit from PCs to smart displays and specialty devices like BrightSign boxes for digital signage jobs, but there is still demand for PCs for more specialized and computing-intensive jobs. There are numerous companies making ruggedized and industrialized boxes that handle jobs like video walls and computer …
DSF, DSEG, AVIXA Plan Digital Signage Certification Week For June April 27, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Federation (DSF) and the Digital Signage Experts Group (DSEG, or for total simplicity, the Brawns), have started something called Digital Signage Certification Week – a period in June intended to promote credentialing and professional development in digital signage and experiential technologies. The three-day program involves the Digital Signage Certified Expert (DSCE) and …
Telelogos Integrates With Hivestack To Bolster Advertising Capabilities Of Its CMS April 27, 2021 by Dave Haynes It seems, at least, that more and more general offer digital signage software platforms are adding some advertising capabilities either directly in their code or via partnerships and APIs. Broadsign is the obvious example of a software shop that is mainly focused on digital OOH advertising. But most CMS platforms offer more generalized solutions, or …
Experiential Warsaw Retailer Takes Grand Prize In Global Digital Signage Awards. Winner List Here … April 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes The global Digital Signage Awards for 2020 have been announced, with the grand prize going to a concept apparel store in Warsaw, Poland, called MODIVO. The store is digital first – a physical manifestation in many ways of online shopping. The store’s visible space looks like a high-end hotel lobby. Shoppers sort through options on …
Submarine Takes Slow Dive Based On Viewers Of Those UK Digital Billboard April 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes In the first wave of QR codes. several years ago, there were lots of jokes about the dubious merits of putting these enhanced bar codes on digital OOH billboards. But here, in what seems to a revival period for the tech, is a billboard that makes the artistic rendering of the codes the focal point …
MiniLED, MicroLED Showcased This Week At Touch Taiwan April 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes Touch Taiwan is now running in Taipei – with an in-person exhibit hall and with virtual components aimed, at least in part, on foreign buyers who reasons we all know can’t get to the almost COVID-free island country. There are reasons to pay attention because a big chunk of the digital signage display and playback …
