Another Shape-Shifting LED Screen Surfaces, This Time In Malaysia October 28, 2019 by Super User You’d think when a top five global brand has a dismal failure with its splashy, expensive and very high profile robotic LED display, that would get around to the potential user base and put the brakes on other deep-pocketed companies trying the same thing. Apparently not … This is somewhere in Malaysia – probably Kuala …
Sharp’s UK Wing Bucks SoC Trend; Reselling BitVu’s CMS And Teeny Standalone Player October 28, 2019 by Super User In the last two or three years there has been a pretty big shift by the main display manufacturers to bring CMS software companies on to their “smart” signage screens, so it’s interesting to see Sharp’s UK Business wing announcing it is partnering to re-sell a platform that has a separate, proprietary standalone player. Sharp …
If You’re Entering Awards, Treat Your Work, And Submission, Seriously October 25, 2019 by Super User Guest Post: Bryan Crotaz, Silver Curve I’ve been on the jury of five European digital signage awards over the past 10 years, and I’ve seen the same simple mistake over and over again. I’ll let you into the judging room secrets here if Dave will allow me to divulge. The rules for the jury are …
The Evolution Of Human-Computer Interaction And Digital Signage October 25, 2019 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Derek DeWitt, Visix If you want to use a computer or other digital device, you have to interact with it in some way. There’s a whole discipline devoted to this, called Human-Computer Interaction, or HCI (though sometimes it’s called CHI, putting the computer first). HCI is really the place where communication between person …
Re-Upped: Why Entering Digital Signage Awards Contests Is Worth The Time And (Small) Cost October 24, 2019 by Super User Re-upping this as I know the two main nominations-based awards programs in this industry are both actively trying to boost the submissions counts and ensure they have a great sample of entries to put in front of judges. Those are: The global Digital Signage Awards, which 16:9 sponsors, is taking submissions for awards that will …
The Self-Described #1 Company In Digital Signage Uses HDMI TV Sticks October 24, 2019 by Super User It’s a bit mind-wobbling to still see start-ups and early stage companies entering the hyper-crowded digital signage CMS software market, even more so when the company gets a healthy $7 million investment from a group of venture capitalists. Raydiant is a two-year-old cloud-based signage CMS that was at first marketed as Mira Technologies. Based in …
Maris Ensing On The Mad Science Behind Mad Systems October 23, 2019 by Super User I wouldn’t want the job of trying to boil down what Mad Systems does to an elevator pitch, unless it was a very tall building with a very slow elevator. Based in Orange County, California, Mad Systems is technically an AV system designer and integrator, but these are not the guys you’d hire to put …
Enplug Joins Short (I Think) List Of Companies Supporting Automated Safety Alerts October 22, 2019 by Super User LA-based CMS Enplug has added support for the Alertus Mass Notification System into its digital signage platform, making it possible to automate on-premise safety alerts. “Even the most thorough disaster preparation can be rendered useless without the ability to quickly and automatically alert people to the danger at hand,” says Nanxi Liu, CEO of Enplug. …
PEI’s ScreenScape Releases Total Overhaul Of Long-Running CMS Platform October 22, 2019 by Super User ScreenScape Networks has released ScreenScape5, what it calls a wholesale reinvention of its cloud-based digital signage CMS solution. V5 is a complete overhaul of the longtime platform, says ScreenScape CEO Mark Hemphill, representing customer feedback, more than two years of design and development work, and extensive beta testing. “The project gave us a special opportunity to …
Nutrislice Bridges Menuboard Solutions With Foodservices Tech Provider CBORD October 22, 2019 by Super User Foodservice-focused digital signage service provider Nutrislice has done an interesting deal with a tech solutions provider to integrate with a company that does loyalty cards and online/mobile ordering for the same vertical. Denver-based Nutrislice is tying in its system with CBORD’s GET Campus Card and Foodservice Suite, which will by Q1 2020 allow students to pre-order …
