New Concept Blends Giant, LED-filled Concert Venue With Resort Hotel October 19, 2020 by Dave Haynes The giant recorded music company Universal Music Group (UMG) has announced it is getting into the destination resort with themed UMUSIC hotels that could be a big, largely unexpected business opportunity for direct view LED vendors and the supporting ecosystem. The hotels are built around large live concert facilities, using a lot of LED in …
Sony Launches $5K “Spatial Reality” Screen, Based on 3D Light Field Display Tech October 16, 2020 by Dave Haynes Sony Electronics has started marketing a new kind of 3D-like screen it calls a Spatial Reality Display (or SR Display). I would love to explain it well, but it is, frankly, way the hell over my giant, hair-barren head. What I can say is that it uses real-time eye-tracking paired with Light Field Display tech …
Managed Services Firm Velocity Acquires Grocery-Based DOOH Network Impax Media October 16, 2020 by Dave Haynes The managed services firm Velocity has gone into one of the vertical markets it serves by acquiring the small, grocery-focused Digital OOH ad network Impax Media. A Montreal company that bubbled up about five years ago, Impax does in-store advertising to shoppers at the checkout aisles at 49 grocery stores in the New York City area. …
AVIXA, Ingram Micro, Almo All Have Virtual Events Coming Next Two Weeks October 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes If something has gone awfully wrong in your life and you’re missing my face and unceasingly sunny disposition, there are some online streaming events coming up that will sort that out. AVIXA DS Power Hour The next event in a running series of AVIXA digital signage Power Hours is Oct. 20th, focused on how the …
Peerless-AV Adds Absen To DV LED Makes Supported By Its “Seamless” Mount System October 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes The mounting hardware and specialty display firm Peerless-AV has added Absen to a long list of direct view LED companies it supports with what it calls its Seamless Connect series. The Chicago-area company’s dedicated Connect Series dvLED Mounting System now has versions specifically for Absen’s Acclaim Plus and Pro Series Direct View LED Displays. The …
Shuttle Marketing Stretch LCD With Built-In SoC And Computer Vision October 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Taiwanese PC maker Shuttle has started marketing what I THINK is the first digital signage display product for the company – one of those stretch LCDs with a smart System on Chip processor inside. The company is best known for its series of little cube PCs for desktops, but also has a wide range …
Fashion Brand Uses Guerrilla Projections To Drive Brand During NY Fashion Week October 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes One of the ways to get around the cost and time needed to get a large format display in place in a big city, or buy time on an ad board, is to do a version of guerrilla marketing on the streets, using projection. That’s the path taken by high fashion brand Bottega Veneta as it …
Bay Area High School’s New Innovation Center Boasts Giant LED In Common Area October 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes Here’s more evidence direct view LED is getting mainstreamed – what looks like the common area for a new center for innovation at a Catholic girl’s high school in Concord, CA, on the east side of the Bay Area. The new building on the campus of Carondelet High School, opened last fall, has a pretty …
Entries For 2021 Global Digital Signage Awards Up 15% … Despite 2020 October 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes Overall entries are up 15% for the global Digital Signage Awards 2021, which has now closed submissions. Entries from North America are up just over 20%. They tripled previous numbers from Australia and New Zealand and European entries overall are up 10%. “There is no doubt that the calibre/caliber of entries is …
Polish Apparel Retailer Modivo Launches Digitally-Driven, Video Wall-Heavy New Format Store October 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting spin on a digitally-driven apparel store – somewhere in Poland. The chain – called Modivo – has launched a new format that is heavy on narrow-bezel LCD video walls, and that uses something like an appointment set-up for shopping. The store, designed by the London creative agency Dalziel & Pow, sees …
