Family Fare Grocery Chain Using Digital Merchandising Displays And End-Caps June 19, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here are a couple of different digital merchandising displays put together for the Family Fare supermarket chain by another Grand Rapids’ MI-based company, Freshwater Digital. One is a digital end cap marketing what I assume are hemp-based CBD oil products, with the interesting wrinkle that a small tablet is down at waist level to enable interactive …
Digital Signage And Smart Content – A Match Made In Heaven June 19, 2019 by Samantha Brault Guest Post: Mike Kilian, Mvix Some things just go together and once they’re paired up, and it’s nearly impossible to imagine them on their own – like digital signage and content. Those two go together like s’mores and campfires. Peanut butter and jelly. Daenerys and her dragons. You get the point, you can’t have one …
InfoComm 2019 Draws 44K+ Attendees, 950+ Exhibitors June 17, 2019 by Dave Haynes AVIXA – the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association – says last week’s InfoComm show in Orlando logged 44,129 registered attendees, up modestly from the last Florida show and about 1,300 over last year in Las Vegas. The show gets roughly half the attendees who go to Integrated Systems Europe (ISE had 81,000), which runs in February …
InfoComm Day 2: No Great Leaps Forward, But Many Subtle Advances June 14, 2019 by Dave Haynes Tons of great conversations and product demos on Thursday at InfoComm 2019. While it is very, very accurate to say there was/is not a whole pile that is strikingly new at this trade show, as you might expect, when you dig in, there’s lots going on and lots of subtle but meaningful improvements or innovations. …
InfoComm 2019 Day One: Even The Projector Companies Are Going LED June 13, 2019 by Dave Haynes You know direct view LED is catching on in a big way with the pro AV crowd when companies known for projectors have big LED displays as focal points of booths. That was the case at InfoComm with Optoma and with Digital Projection, which has, umm, projection in its name. The latter has had LED …
Ian Dallimore On Growing Digital Inside Lamar Advertising June 12, 2019 by Dave Haynes In the out of home space, Lamar Advertising is huge. The Baton Rouge-based media company is in 160 metro areas in the US, and has more than 3,300 roadside digital billboards. The company is steadily adding more digital, notably in environments like airports. Lamar just lit up an impressive and expensive network inside the baggage …
LG Formally Launches Transparent OLED For US Market June 11, 2019 by Dave Haynes It appears LG’s next big thing to be showcased at InfoComm this week will be quite familiar to much of that show’s pro AV crowd. Transparent OLED has been around for several years, and definitely demo’d at trade show booths, but LG Business Solutions says it is officially launching its commercial, 55-inch digital signage display …
SiliconCore Joins Ranks Of LED Displaycos With Ruggedized Surfaces June 11, 2019 by Dave Haynes The high-end fine-pitch LED manufacturer SiliconCore is the latest firm to announce a product that adds a coating to protect fragile LED chips. The company’s InfoComm presence will include displays that use its LISA technology – “a proprietary surface protection layer that guard the LEDs from contact (or impact) damage, without compromising the brightness or image …
Orlando-Bound: InfoComm 2019’s Halls Opens Wednesday, And 16:9 Is There June 10, 2019 by Dave Haynes It is InfoComm week, and this year the show is in Orlando once again, as it is every second year. The weather forecast says high 80s, high humidity and thunderstorms – so if you venture outdoors you are going to be soaked either by perspiration or passing storms. Always fun! I am heading down first …
Two Examples Of Low Rez LED Displays That Are More Mood Than Message June 7, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here’s a couple of examples of low-resolution LED display applications that use blend with fabric or film to create soft, diffused visuals that are meant as motion backdrops or accents. The first is a fixture by the NYC printing company Duggal, which has a digital wing and created an interesting spin-out product called . The …
