Giant Wraparound LED Upgrades Messaging At Sydney’s Convention Center August 12, 2019 by Super User This is well done – a wrap-around LED display board that addresses multiple needs at a convention center in Sydney, Australia. The new LED display at the International Convention Centre Sydney is 47.5 sq. meters – 19m wide by 2.5m tall, and sitting above some existing print signage. The screen in the ICC Sydney foyer …
AdMobilize Gets Patent Grant For Analytics-Triggered Signage Content August 9, 2019 by Super User Miami-based computer vision company AdMobilize has been granted a US patent for a “method and system for dynamically adjusting displayed content based on analysis of viewer attributes.” That dynamic content is based around the use of anonymous video analytics – the core business of AdMobilize. Rodolfo Saccoman, the five-year-old company’s CEO and co-founder, says the …
Cruise Line’s Mega-Ship Includes Dining Hall With Experiential LED Walls August 9, 2019 by Super User The Spectrum of the Seas, a new mega-cruise ship in the fleet of Royal Caribbean International, uses big direct view LED screens to great effect in its main dining room. The three level dining area can feed more than 1,800 people at once. Passengers walk in from two decks, via a 16-meter-long LED corridor. For …
CRI Paid About $8.5M For Allure, $6.3M In Cash August 9, 2019 by Super User Creative Realities paid roughly $8.5 million last fall to buy Allure off of Christie Digital Systems, according to SEC quarterly report filings by CRI. The new filings say Louisville, KY-based solutions provider CRI “acquired ownership of all of Allure’s issued and outstanding capital shares in consideration for a total purchase price of approximately $8,450,000 subject …
Empire State Building Opens Screen-Filled Museum Designed To Entertain, Educate Observatory Line-ups August 8, 2019 by Super User The Empire State Building in New York has opened a 10,000 square foot museum in the 2nd floor of the building as a mechanism to reduce perceptions of long waiting lines to get to the observatories on the 86th and 102nd floors. The museum has a pile of technology in it, most notably a gallery with 72 …
Broadsign, Place Exchange Combine Tech To Streamline DOOH Media Activity August 7, 2019 by Super User Broadsign has done a tie-up with the programmatic ad exchange company Place Exchange the companies say enables digital buyers to “transact DOOH programmatically as a simple add-on to existing digital media buys.” Combining the platforms through software integration, they say, lets Digital OOH media owners and advertisers use “a single set of digital creative assets …
Display Market Analysts Expect 10% Cost Bump If Trump’s China Tariffs Kick In Sept. 1 August 7, 2019 by Super User The analyst firm DSCC, which focuses on the supply chain for the display industry, is suggesting the trade tariffs US President Trump will be imposing Sept. 1 on China could raise end-user costs by 10% across the range of electronics products coming out of that country. But it also suggests over-supply in the industry might …
Tom Milner On Why Clean Screens Are More Than Just An Aesthetics Issue August 7, 2019 by Super User Much of the focus in this industry is on the hardware and software used to put digital signage networks together, and increasingly, mercifully, on content and creative. Not that much attention gets paid to the service side of the business – installing screens and fixing devices when things go wrong. Even less attention is paid …
NEC Adds Super-Skinny Bezel Video Wall 55s August 6, 2019 by Super User NEC is the latest LCD manufacturer to release a super/extreme/OMG narrow bezel video wall product, on the heels of recent announcements by LG and Planar/Leyard. The company has announced a pair of 55s – which seems to be the default size for video walls – that are either 500 or 700 nits. Either has what …
YCD Multimedia Adds BrightSign Player Support August 6, 2019 by Super User YCD Multimedia is the latest CMS software company to put the resources into getting a version of its software player running on BrightSign’s little purple media players. “With this new capability,” the company says in PR, “using YCD RAMP digital signage management system any retail customer will now be able to play and control its content …
