Seven Industries That REALLY NEED Digital Signage June 4, 2018 by Samuel Mekonen Guest Post: Michal Lisewski, Merixstudio Modern software technologies such as HTML5 make interactive digital signage relatively cheap. As the first generation of digital natives enters the labor market, the expansion of the use of screens has become a necessity. This post looks article aims to point out seven major industries that could benefit more by …
Technology Is The Key To Brand Loyalty On The Changing High Street June 4, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Joe Rabah, RMG Networks Today’s newspapers are awash with daily stories of retailers having to transform their business models from yesteryear to stay afloat as our high streets evolve and customer habits and expectations change. Recent articles discussing the fate of the UK’s Mothercare, Marks & Spencer and House of Fraser are just …
Shenzhen Ops Center Gets 121-Foot Wide Fine Pitch Monitoring Wall June 1, 2018 by Super User It hasn’t really happened in North America or, likely, EMEA, but in China, fine pitch LED is increasingly supplanting projection tiles, edge-blended projection and narrow bezels LCDs as the tech of choice for big control room environments. If the room is big enough and operators are set back enough, the clarity is there for …
Chicago Skyscraper’s Observatory Plans Appear To Bake In Vast LED Display Walls June 1, 2018 by Super User I don’t really think of 16:9 as a lead identification tool for vendors, but here’s a pretty damn warm lead for integrators and direct view LED manufacturers: The AON Center is one of Chicago’s best-known office towers, with a position near Lake Michigan and overlooking the city’s vast Millennium Park, which attracts about 13 million …
Call Out For Digital Artists To Populate Digital Signage Screens At NYC’s Fulton Center June 1, 2018 by Super User The team behind the massive digital signage network at the Fulton Center subway station in New York have put a call out for visual artists who want to show their new media work on many screens in and around the facility. MTA Arts & Design wants to “establish a deep pool of fresh new …
Lumipixels Cleverly Marries Motion LED Lighting With Fabric Branding Lightboxes June 1, 2018 by Super User One of the challenges with being in an industry so long – even before it had a name – is getting jaded and a bit bored. I go to trade shows, like next week’s InfoComm, and mostly shrug. The stuff is amazing, beautiful, brighter, skinnier, lighter, faster … lots of things with “ers” on the …
inLighten Release CMS-Neutral StudioPro Content Creation Tool For Digital Signage May 31, 2018 by Super User Buffalo, NY-based digital signage software shop inLighten has started marketing an interesting new content creation tool for digital signage networks that’s aimed for users of any skill level and NOT tied to a particular content management system. So an end-user can produce material using StudioPro, but output it to use on whatever CMS software and …
City Agrees To Allow LinkNYC Rollout To Slow Down; Provides More Time To Pay May 30, 2018 by Super User Few observers will be surprised to learn the much-touted NYC smart city rollout of screens replacing payphone boxes is not going as well as envisioned. I don’t get to New York that often, but when I do, I see lotsa black and blue screens dotting the sidewalks. I hear the same from people who live …
License Plate Turned Digital Sign Now Testing On Sacramento Roadways May 30, 2018 by Super User The California start-up that turns motor vehicle license plates into part-time digital signs is now testing in Sacramento, using monochromatic electronic ink screens to show everything from the plate number and registration status to ads for car manufcaturers and stolen vehicle notices for police. The Sacramento Bee reports that the test has the plates looking like regular …
16:9 Podcasts – Mitch Goss On Building NYC’s Zero-In As A Genuine Turnkey Digital Signage Business May 30, 2018 by Super User There are lots of companies out there that call themselves turnkey digital signage solutions providers, but far fewer who can do so with straight faces. A company called Zero-In has been doing just that for the last decade, and has developed a nice book of business doing the whole nine yards of signage work – …
