There Are Even Instructions Available For “Hacking” OOH Media Faces October 1, 2019 by Super User Let’s assume the persons who hacked digital screens in Auckland and Detroit this past weekend, replacing advertising with naughty movies, were more pranksters than serious hackers. But there are also organized efforts out there to “hack” backlit posters on transit shelters and street furniture in major cities like London. It is no great stretch to …
Registration Opens For 2020 Version Of ISE In Amsterdam October 1, 2019 by Super User Registration has opened now for 2020 edition of Integrated Systems Europe, set for the RAI Amsterdam on Feb. 11-14. For the unfamiliar, this is the biggest pro AV show on the planet in terms of attendance counts and sheer footprint. The event venue has numerous inter-connected halls and digital signage vendors fill a big one, …
More Hacked Signs And More Naughty Content – This Time In Detroit September 30, 2019 by Super User A reader pointed out a second digital signage screen hack from this weekend, this one on a digital OOH highway billboard in suburban Detroit. The big digital board was, like one in Auckland, NZ, showing porn video material. The Detroit Free Press reports it happened late Saturday night and the racy material was up for …
Screens Above NZ Shoe Store Hacked To Run Porn Video September 30, 2019 by Super User If the need to lock down a public-facing digital signage display wasn’t obvious already, here’s an example from New Zealand of what happens when operators either don’t, or don’t do it well enough. The New Zealand Herald is reporting that someone – presumably hackers – penetrated the media play-out device that drives content on the …
Germany’s info-beamer Optimizes Digital Signage Software For Raspberry Pi 4 September 30, 2019 by Super User The German company behind the Raspberry Pi-driven digital signage CMS info-beamer has released a new version of the service built around and optimized for the new Raspberry Pi 4. The platform is the world’s first Pi4 OS for digital signage, the company says, with support for HEVC video playback (so it can do 4K) and …
BenQ Touts New “Pantone Validated” Digital Signage Display Series September 27, 2019 by Super User Commercial display companies are always and understandably looking for ways to differentiate their products from other manufacturers that make, to most eyes, pretty similar-looking versions of the same thing. So it was interesting to read news that Taiwan-based BenQ has announced the launch of what it touts to be the world’s first digital signage display …
Belgium’s PresentationPoint Adds Cloud-based Version Of Digital Signage Software September 27, 2019 by Super User The Belgian company PresentationPoint, which marries PowerPoint-based presentations to a digital signage platform, has released a new cloud-based service called SignageTube. Like the 20-year-old mother ship company, the software lets users design presentations and integrate dynamic data with the hyper-popular Office presentation software, and then have it converted to a signage presentation format. The primary …
Dutch LED Firm Marketing Drop Ceiling Decor Bundle September 26, 2019 by Super User The Dutch LED display company LedGo has tried to differentiate itself from the vast horde of companies selling visual display solutions by focusing on non-traditional stuff like LED floors and ceilings. They pushed out an email this morning that caught my eye for a couple of reasons: 1 – Prices are coming way down on …
McKinsey Opening Test Lab Store In Mall Of America September 26, 2019 by Super User The huge management consultant firm McKinsey & Company is opening a retail test lab store tomorrow that’s designed to try out and analyze different technologies touted to transform shopping experiences. The store – called Modern Retail Collective – opens Friday at the vast Mall of America, in suburban Minneapolis. McKinsey says this differs from other …
AUO CEO Paul Peng On How His Display Giant Plays In Digital Signage September 25, 2019 by Super User I was in Taiwan recently for a trade show called Touch Taiwan, and managed to grab 20 minutes with Paul Peng, the Chairman and CEO of display manufacturing giant AU Optronics. AUO is based in Taiwan, with its main office about an hour south of Taipei in the manufacturing city of Hsinchu. The company has …
