Christie Launches No-OS, No-RF Displays at Infocomm June 6, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger While it’s true that many security-sensitive and business-critical environments prefer media players over SoC displays for digital signage, calling SoCs an insecure option would be a bit far-stretched. But Christie is obviously seeing a market opportunity in “non-smart” displays with no SoC and no RF. The US manufacturer is launching an LCD line-up called Secure …
We Tried Google Beam – the Closest Thing to In-Person Conversation Yet June 4, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger In late 2024, my colleagues and I were lucky enough to experience a technology that Google still kept shrouded in mystery at the time: Google’s Project Starline. Hidden in two demo rooms at the ChromeOS Experience Center in San José, this early glimpse into what is now officially known as Google Beam left us stunned. …
Korbyt Introduces AI Agents to Automate Content Creation and Delivery June 4, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger At DSS Europe in Munich a couple of weeks ago, one of the most talked-about topics was how digital signage software vendors can harness the power of AI. Many conversations centered on the potential for CMS providers to train AI models with their own data to create tailored, signage-specific tools – especially autonomous AI agents …
Day 2 DSSE – Lightning Impressions, Inc. Color E-paper And Making Smart Displays Do More May 23, 2025 by Dave Haynes Very busy second day at Digital Signage Summit Europe in Munich, and I got into my room at 1:42 AM. It is encouraging that I recall the time, cuz wine and weisse beer. A lot of people at this event, with the numbers amplified by how people can fly in to the city, walk out …
Tech Companies Team Up For OpenAV Cloud Initiative Aimed At Encouraging Interoperability May 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes A “coalition” of six fairly hefty AV manufacturers and tech providers have announced something called OpenAV Cloud, an industry initiative its founding members say was put together to make everything from flat panels and media players to microphones more interoperable. The founding members include Sony Electronics, Panasonic, Legrand, Shure, BrightSign, and Xyte. Planar and AUO …
Peerless-AV Makes Its Universal LED Wall Mount System Slimmer And Stronger May 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes The AV infrastructure firm Peerless-AV has announced a set of refinements to its SEAMLESS Connect Universal mounting system, with the idea that an evolved product makes it easier to get direct view LED video walls up tight and proper. The press release suggests the product is just launching but I know I wrote about it …
Scala Gets Beyond Just Populating Menu Displays With New Quintet QSR Automation Solution May 20, 2025 by Dave Haynes It seems obvious, but I remain surprised how many CMS software companies continue down the path of developing and marketing general solutions, when in most cases they should really be trying to zero in on solution and sector, and go deep with it. If your solution meets every or most needs, it’s probably broad but …
Display Week: LG Display Demos 4th-Gen OLED That Can Push 4,000 Nits May 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes One of the primary knocks, for the longest time, with large format OLED displays has been brightness, but LG is at the screen-nerd Display Week event this week in Silicon Valley talking up what it describes as 4th-generation OLED panels that can push as much as 4,000 nits. That is very bright – the sort …
Premier League’s Brighton Switches On UK’s First Transparent LED Glass Balustrade System May 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes There is a lot of building-grade glass out there, and as LED technology has improved and matured, it makes sense that glass surfaces will start doubling up as screens. There are not all that many reference cases outside of China, but here’s a high profile one in the UK – at the home grounds of …
Amsterdam’s Giant Schiphol Airport Switches On Programmatic For Its Internally-Run DOOH Media Network May 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes Advertising is present in pretty much every airport a traveler might come across, but the ad faces – static or digital – tend to be put in, managed and sold by third-party out of home media companies. But the company that runs Amsterdam’s sprawling airport, as well as two other Dutch airfields, does things differently. …
