C-store Projects Marketing Messages On Sliding Door Glass October 22, 2018 by Dave Haynes There’s nothing new about projecting on window film, but this is an interesting, if flawed, take on it – at a c-store in, I think, Turkey. By the looks of things, the projection system is tied to the automated entry door system – so that when sensors are triggered to open the sliding doors, the …
Submission Deadline For The Digital Signage Awards Is Oct. 31st October 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes A reminder that the Digital Signage Awards submission deadline is less than two weeks out – with entries needing to be in by Oct. 31st. 16:9 is the presenting sponsor of the global awards, and based on what I am hearing from the team that organizes the awards and event in Amsterdam, during ISE, entries …
Watch: Artwork On Fine Pitch LED Morphs To Logo When Sensor Triggered October 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a cool little concept from the digital creative shop Fusion CI Studios – a morphing animation on a big screen, triggered by a sensor. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Vimeo. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers. …
North Sydney Club Makes Interactive Wall Its Digital Centerpiece October 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes When the 90 year old Harbord Diggers club in Sydney, Australia’s northern beaches area went through a massive redevelopment project, the backers wanted to have a digital centerpiece at the facility that told the club’s back story and present in a visually interesting and playful way. The Mounties Group, developers of a project that now …
Electronics Retailers Uses Video Wall To Help Sell Drones October 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes NEC Display has pushed out an interesting case study that shows how an in-store video wall is being used to sell drones. The wall was put in by B&H Photo Video at its massive, always-jammed store on 9th Avenue in New York, near Penn Station and Hudson Yards. “We needed to be able to open …
Renault Deploys Media4Display Across Its Dealer Network October 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a micro dealership/experience center for Renault, one of hundreds of dealer locations across Europe that are now running on Media4Display, the CMS platform marketed by France’s Telelogos. The software has replaced a previous solution that no longer met Renault’s needs, which included: A minimum of three tiers of management – Global, National, Dealers. Easy, …
Freshwater Founder Matt Downey On Retail Tech And The Opportunity He Sees In Epaper October 17, 2018 by Dave Haynes Matt Downey’s time in digital signage traces way, way back to the days when Premier Retail Networks was, by far, the big dog in putting screen networks in retail environments. His time with PRN – working with clients like Walmart – eventually led him into working directly for one of his big grocer clients. Not …
Long-Term Tests Confirm OLEDs Have Burn-In Issues, But Is The Risk Real In Digital Signage? October 16, 2018 by Dave Haynes Ghosted OLED screen – Image from rtings.com There is absolutely no denying that big OLED screens are gorgeous, but people who know a thing or two about the technical side of displays have often noted there are some trade-offs for that. The big one is cost. OLEDs, as well as Samsung’s quantum dot LCDs it …
Etisalat’s GITEX Booth Went Crazy This Week With Digital October 15, 2018 by Dave Haynes I go to a lot of trade shows, of all sizes, but I have never seen anything like what the UAE-based telecoms company Etisalat has up this week at the huge GITEX trade show in Dubai. Think CES, but in a desert city on the other side of the planet from Las Vegas. Like CES, …
Appspace Shifts CMS Platform To Progressive Web App; Purging Last Bits Of Flash October 15, 2018 by Dave Haynes I kinda made the assumption Adobe Flash was ancient history for software companies in the digital signage ecosystem, but there are bits of it still around. The software firm Appspace pushed out an interesting mass email Monday to its contacts database saying it was happily announce that by the end of this year, all Flash-based tools in …
