Listen To The Conversation From Coffee And Controversy 2019 October 30, 2019 by Dave Haynes A couple of weeks back I was in New York for the annual Digital Signage Federation Coffee and Controversy event, which I moderated. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Default. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers. Unblock content Accept …
A Quick Look At New Digital Signage In Downtown San Francisco October 29, 2019 by Dave Haynes I was in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago to see all the Samsung/PrismView LED and smart displays at the new Chase Center, but I also had a couple of free hours to have a quick look around. I’ve seen the LED displays in the lobbies of the cluster of Salesforce office towers downtown, …
Canada’s CBC Fills Election Night Set With Direct-view LED October 29, 2019 by Dave Haynes Canada had its federal election last week – a five week or so sprint of an election instead of the ones south of us, in the US, which seemingly never really end. One of the national broadcasters – the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – had a one-night elections set that heavily used direct view LED to …
Houston Office Block Enlivens Lobby With 32′ by 18′ LED Wall October 28, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of what I assume will continue to be a trend in the commercial property business to enliven the lobbies of their big buildings with large format LED displays. In this case, it is 1100 Louisiana, an office block owned by the international real estate firm Hines. Ground-floor renovations to the building included …
Another Shape-Shifting LED Screen Surfaces, This Time In Malaysia October 28, 2019 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
