Adobe Showing Transparent Retail Display Hardware Concept At SIGGRAPH; And We’re Not Sure Why July 29, 2019 by Dave Haynes Creative software giant Adobe continues to dabble in digital signage – first with its own Screens management software and now with display technology. The company will be at the SIGGRAPH gaming tech conference this week in LA showing off some skunkworks R&D tech that looks like transparent LCD and OLED screens got together overnight at …
Who Wants To Talk? July 25, 2019 by Dave Haynes I’ve had three podcast interviews deferred this week for various reasons, so if I have one up next week, it has to happen soon. There’s a running idea list I keep of people I want to talk to, but I am always open to suggestions of new interview subjects. Most typically, the podcasts are with …
Canada’s Tim Hortons Coffee Chain Tests Digital-Rich Upmarket Cafe July 24, 2019 by Dave Haynes I am not sure what the double-double crowd (Canadians will know what I mean) will think of a new Tim Hortons location opening up in Toronto’s financial district tomorrow. The Tim Hortons 130 King will be the company’s “first-ever innovation café.” It will have nitro-infused cold brew coffee, americanos, lattes, cappuccinos, flat whites, cortados, macchiatos and all …
Mike Kilian On The Opportunities And Challenges Of Workplace Digital Signage July 24, 2019 by Dave Haynes Just about anyone involved on the sales or management side of digital signage these days knows that workplace communications has pretty quickly grown into one of the most active and interesting verticals. With QSRs, the other hot vertical, you’re doing menus and digital promo posters. In the workplace, all kinds of interesting things are possible, …
Broadsign Gets Toehold In China With New Media Network Deal July 23, 2019 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
