Sony Again Making Sustainability Central To ISE Exhibit Hall Presence December 13, 2024 by Super User In the wake of advancing the ISE plans of PPDS (Philips), I came across information about another big pro AV display vendor, Sony, is doing at the show in Barcelona in early February. Sustainability and ESG policies are not much of a thing beyond the largest North American companies, but it is a big discussion …
PPDS Advances ISE 2025 Presence That Includes New Philips LED And Sustainability Products December 13, 2024 by Super User The big display manufacturers have started talking up what they will be showing at ISE in Barcelona, though I think some of them might want to get CES PR out of the way before they start touting the shiny new pots and pans they will be showing off in Barcelona. PPDS, aka Philips pro displays …
Shifting From Chipsets To Vegan Sneakers: London’s LED-Filled Future Stores Gets New Tenant December 6, 2024 by Super User Intel has moved out and a VERY different brand has moved in to that hyper-ambitious immersive retailing pop-up store in central London. The new short-term tenant at the LED-dominated Futures Stores, on London’s Oxford Street, is the Scandinavian “urban-lux vegan trainer and apparel brand LØCI” – with substantial help and shared branding by the social …
Poppulo Largest CMS Company To Date To Adopt Amazon’s $100 Signage Stick As Hardware Option December 5, 2024 by Super User When etailing giant Amazon announced a couple of months ago that it had developed and was now marketing a lean version of its Fire TV HDMI sticks and specifically calling it the Amazon Signage Stick, it was reasonable to assume that the main software partners for the $100 device would be companies focused on the …
UK Grocer Nicely Fits Digital Signage New Store’s Overall Look And Feel December 4, 2024 by Super User Here’s a modest but well-executed example of how screens can be integrated into a retail design, as opposed to the many examples still popping up of screens just kind of stuck in where they fit or dropped from ceilings. It is at a roadway-side Sainsbury’s grocery that’s tied in with a petrol station, in a …
Munich-Based Insurer Uses Big LCDs Instead Of Fine-Pitch LED To Bling Up Its Lobby November 29, 2024 by Super User Here’s an interesting example of a corporate client, space designer and integrator collectively opting for very large LCD over fine pitch LED to create a big digital presence in a company’s main reception area. It is the lobby of the Munich headquarters of the insurance firm WWK Versicherung, and uses four 98-inch Sony Bravia 4K …
Transparent LCD Adds Virtual Information Kiosk At Riyadh’s Airport November 28, 2024 by Super User Here’s one of those transparent LCD virtual presence set-ups being used at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s big airport, promoting Virgin Connect eSims and answering questions, using AI. It hits me as very expensive overkill, given what it does, but it does offer bling and buzz in a part of the world that especially likes its bling …
Icelandic Software Firm Launches “Hardware-Free” Digital Signage Solution November 27, 2024 by Super User An Icelandic software services company called Dacoda has wrapped up two years of development work and launched a new SaaS digital signage product that borrows on streaming TV technology – with a service that runs purely off a connected smart display’s browser. Called Signital – and I haven’t sorted our how to pronounce that … …
Video: Here’s A Volumetric Display That’s Much Closer To The Pop Culture Idea Of Holograms November 27, 2024 by Super User I natter away here when specialty display companies call their transparent LD or OLED screens, Pepper’s Ghost projections or spinning LED light thingies holograms, explaining that they’re not, because while the outputs may appear to float in a space, those visuals are two-dimensional and don’t have depth or dimension. Here, though, is a genuine 3D …
Betting Shop Chain Switches In-Store Digital Signage Set-Up To Amino’s Streaming Solution November 27, 2024 by Super User Paddy Power, the well-known retail betting shop chain in the UK and Ireland, has taken the interesting step of cutting over from a traditional servers and end-point PCs set-up for its in-store digital signage network to one using streaming media players. UK-based Amino’s H200 4K media players are now being used in more than 500 …
