iBase Releases Rugged, Stretched Panel PCs For Digital Signage On Buses, Railcars July 23, 2018 by Dave Haynes Someone will likely correct me, but this is the first time I at least remembering seeing one of those skinny, stretched LCDs with a full PC embedded inside – in this case for mass transport systems. The Taiwan industrial PC maker iBase has a new all-in-one 27.6-inch “railway-certified” bar-type panel PC, powered by a Pentium N4200 Quad …
Largest LED Board In South America Lights Up In Lima July 20, 2018 by Dave Haynes HT @Huggett This is what’s being touted as the largest DOOH digital sign in South America – a 487 sq. metre beast on the front facade of the Plaza Norte shopping mall in Lima, Peru. It almost looks fine pitch LED, but is actually just 16mm – the sort of pitch you see on highway …
RMG Latest Digital Signage CMS Software Shop To Add LG webOS Support Via Korbyt July 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes RMG Networks is the latest CMS software and solutions company to develop support for LG’s webOS smart display platform. The company’s Korbyt platform is now compatible with the display giant’s Linux-derived system on chip platform. Korbyt is RMG’s relatively new cloud-based CMS. Dallas-based RMG suggests combining webOS Signage and Korbyt offers many benefits. “LG’s clients already using …
UK Sushi Chain Changes Up Menuboard Approach With Super-Stretched Displays July 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes Here’s a nice implementation of digital menuboards in a fast food environment – changing things up with super-stretched displays and a bold, reasonably minimal content presentation – instead of many items wedged into limited visual space. The project involves the London, UK-based sushi and bento restaurant chain, Wasabi, at seven stores around that city. The digital displays …
Interactive Retail Merchandiser Perch Completes $1.7M Seed Funding July 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes NYC-based Perch, which has for several years been developing very clever interactive merchandising pieces for retail, has announced a $1.7 million seed funding raise and a high profile addition to its advisory board.Perch first came on my radar several years ago with an overhead projection system that turned an ordinary white merchandising table into a …
Gordon Feller Talks About The Real Potential For Smart Cities And Digital OOH July 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes I can’t say I’ve been all the enthralled by what I’ve seen so far with smart cities initiatives that involve digital out of home media companies. For the most part, they’re just digital posters with some wifi and maybe some sensors tossed in so the things can be called “smart.” Those things exist to run …
Big Disty Almo Acquires Longtime Content Partner Insteo July 17, 2018 by Dave Haynes Philly-based pro AV distributor Almo Professional A/V has acquired “certain assets” of Insteo, the Long Beach, CA content and creative shop. Almo has been tight with Insteo and its CEO/Founder Jim Nista for several years now, and the deal formalizes an arrangement that makes Almo capable of offering what can be lucrative digital signage content services through …
2,000 Sq. Ft. Of Gorgeous Visualized Data About To Go Live At Charlotte, NC’s Airport July 17, 2018 by Dave Haynes A nine-gate, $200 million addition to Charlotte Douglas Airport, in North Carolina, opens tomorrow morning, with a main feature being some 2,000 sq. ft. of visualized data on several vast fine-pitch LED video walls. The data visuals are the focal point of a public art piece, called Interconnected, commissioned by the airport to LA data …
Videos: Helpful Insight On Using User-Generated Content In Digital Signage July 16, 2018 by Dave Haynes Brad Parler of UK-based CMS firm ScreenCloud has completed a nice three-part video series on user-generated content for digital signage. Houston-based Parler, you may recall, joined ScreenCloud earlier this year, having built up a name doing very innovative corporate communications content for his old masters, blinds.com. I’ve had a few emails recently from end-users asking …
German Testing Lab Shows Samsung’s QLED Display Tech Has No Burn-In Issues July 16, 2018 by Dave Haynes Via Display Daily A German testing lab has released results of tests that verify Samsung’s QLED technology doesn’t suffer any of the burn-in problem of some other flat panel display tech. The tests, relayed via the display nerd site Display Daily, seem to be Samsung’s way of suggesting its premium displays are good to go …
