Daniel Griffin Of Userful Talks Video Walls And AV Over Networks October 2, 2019 by Dave Haynes Like a lot of people in the digital signage industry, I tend to think about video walls in terms of the display hardware, and what’s running on those big beautiful screens. I know precious little about what’s happening behind the wall to ensure it all looks good. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from …
Korean Tire-maker Adds Mind-Blowing LED Video Wall In HQ Lobby October 1, 2019 by Dave Haynes The content for the video wall in the Seoul R&D offices of Nexen, a Korean tire company, is freaking amazing. The lobby of the building has a 30 meter (98.5 feet) wide by 7 meter (23 feet) tall fine pitch LED media wall running a diverse range of custom creative developed by the agency d’strict. …
Christie Goes Into The Back-Story Of Its LED MicroTiles October 1, 2019 by Dave Haynes When I first saw Christie’s second-generation MicroTiles back this past winter at ISE in Amsterdam, my first reaction was probably like many, as in: “Those are LEDs, not MicroTiles!” They looked good and had a different structural set-up, but I wasn’t getting it. MicroTiles, as I knew them, were small display cubes unrelated to LED. …
Samsung Brings Prismview’s LED Sales Into Mother Ship October 1, 2019 by Dave Haynes Samsung has rolled the sales and marketing teams of Prismview – the LED company that grew up as Yesco – into its overall display sales team. Utah-based Prismview – which got the new name after it was acquired in 2015 by Samsung – had been operating as a subsidiary until this change, announced today. Prismview …
There Are Even Instructions Available For “Hacking” OOH Media Faces October 1, 2019 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
