Broadsign Gets Toehold In China With New Media Network Deal July 23, 2019 by Super User Montreal’s Broadsign has secured its first toehold into the Chinese digital out of home media market, winning a deal to be the CMS software platform for Oriental Sunrise Media Group. The deal is just a few licenses, for now, but one of the active screens run by the company is also one of Asia’s largest digital displays …
Planar Starts Marketing 55-Inch LCD Line With Hair-Width Bezels July 23, 2019 by Super User Planar has started making noise about what the display manufacturer says are screens that have the industry’s skinniest bezels. Planar and parent company Leyard says two new 55-inch models in the VM Series have a 0.88mm tiled bezel width. By that, I think that means two edges butted together still result in a seam that …
Abu Dhabi Court Uses Screens To Make Proceedings Almost Totally Digital July 23, 2019 by Super User This probably doesn’t fall into the digital signage bucket, and is much more of an AV job, but it is an interesting application of screens in a workplace. The Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts (ADGM) in guess where is entirely digital – with witnesses, lawyers and plaintiffs able to participate in courtroom proceedings from anywhere, …
Quebec’s Lottery Corp Rolling Out Menuboard-Style Screens In Walmart Kiosks July 22, 2019 by Super User Loto-Quebec was an early adopter for digital signage, putting screens in retail sites well more than a decade ago. Much of what the lotteries concern does is a basic set-up in convenience stores, but like other lottery companies they try to create a larger, special purpose presence in shopping malls and heavy foot traffic retail …
Consumer Devices Are Increasingly Going Commercial, The Latest: Signagelive Adds Fire TV Stick Support July 19, 2019 by Super User When HDMI media player sticks like Amazon’s Fire TV first came on the market a few years ago, some smaller companies and enterprising digital signage nerds started playing around with it, wondering if it could serve as a very low-cost media player. It was reasonable to look at those efforts and results, and conclude that …
How Grocers Are Transforming, Using Digital Signage And Employee Communications July 19, 2019 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Curtis Campbell, Hughes Gone are the days of your mother sitting at the kitchen table with the Sunday paper, clipping coupons and making mile-long grocery lists, only to then spend several hours at potentially multiple stores to gather everything to feed the family. Today, deals and coupons are available through our phones or …
Intuiville Lets Developers Wander Virtual Digital Showrooms For Interactive Ideas July 18, 2019 by Super User The French firm that offers a coding-free platform for creating, deploying, measuring and managing interactive digital screens has produced an interesting virtual showroom that highlights dozens of use-cases and ideas. Intuiface launched Intuiville, intended as the “most comprehensive guide to digital interactivity at work.” Lots of software and hardware companies in the signage ecosystem have …
Don’t Get Burned: Remote Power For LED Is Unnecessary July 18, 2019 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Eric Seigler, Nanolumens When working with any sort of light-producing electrical product, be it a laptop, a desk lamp, or a commercial digital display, you need to be mindful of the product’s heat output. If you’ve felt the warmth of a computer on your lap or the heat of an older lamp bulb, …
How Kitcast’s Aggressive Use Of Social Media Has Helped Build Its Digital Signage Brand July 17, 2019 by Super User If you go to any industry trade shows and follow social media activity around them, you’ll no doubt have noticed A LOT of tweeting by a company called Kitcast. They’ve done a very effective job of using social media to create both buzz and booth traffic, and Kitcast staffers were back at it recently at …
New, Free Online Tool Helps Digital Signage Content Designers Get Font Sizes Right July 16, 2019 by Super User Montreal’s Telecine, a longtime digital signage content and solutions provider, has come up with a clever online calculator designed to help network operators and content developers ensure their messages are readable by viewers. The best practice for content design is to produce material and then view it on the size and resolution of screen, and …
