Big Thanks To The 2018 Digital Signage Awards Judges January 30, 2018 by Super User Twelve judges, under my maniacal chairmanship, scrutinized up to 30 entries each and awarded up to 100 points across six columns to help decide the 2018 Digital Signage Awards Finalists, as well as High Commendations and Category Winners. The winners will all be announced next week at ISE in Amsterdam, at a luncheon. Those folks, …
Video: Interactive Restaurant Table Uses Portable Hologram Projector January 30, 2018 by Super User I spotted this video on Linkedin – a hologram projection thingie touted as being part of the restaurant of the future. It’s interesting, and perhaps one day this sort of thing would get used somewhere, but there are a few things to reasonably note and ask: The video shows the waiter just plopping this puppy …
The Total Guide To Fine Pitch LED: A 16:9 Special Report January 30, 2018 by Super User There’s a lot of buzz in the digital signage industry, as well as the markets the industry serves, about fine pixel pitch LED displays, and their ability to create bright, seamless visuals that transform spaces. It’s easy to find technical documentation about LED displays and diodes, but a lot harder to find solid information, written …
Intersection’s US Digital OOH Network To Run Off BroadSign Control January 30, 2018 by Super User It will be BroadSign Control under the hood, going forward, for the digital poster network run by smart cities-centric media company Intersection. Intersection will use Broadsign’s content management system, Broadsign Control, to schedule and deliver advertising and dynamic HTML5 content to a national national network of Link kiosks, urban digital poster panels, interactive station platform …
BrightSign To Debut New HDR-Ready Players At ISE January 29, 2018 by Super User New version releases of signage gear don’t tend to get me too excited, but given the volume and breadth of BrightSign’s player business – and the number of software companies now integrating to their little purple boxes – it’s worth noting that a set of new units will have their debut next week at ISE. …
Video: ComQi Puts Retail Tech In Context With Pop-Up Store January 29, 2018 by Super User The digital signage industry has gradually come around to the idea that buyers are less interested in how things work than they are in what the things will do for them. You see that reflected in trade show booths that are increasingly putting the technology in context, like faux retail settings. The next step, logically, …
UK Projector Firm Optoma Adds Fine Pitch LED To Product Lineup January 29, 2018 by Super User The major LCD display companies have pretty much all introduced fine pitch LED products to deal with a shift away from flat panels to LED modules for video walls, and now pure-play projector companies appear to be on the same path. UK-based Optoma is known very much as a projectional technology company, but at ISE …
Cineplex Wins Turnkey Deal To Run QSR Menu Boards For Biggest McDonald’s Franchisee On Planet January 26, 2018 by Super User Toronto-based Cineplex Digital Media has done a deal with a company billed as the largest independent McDonald’s franchisee in the world to deploy, maintain and operate digital menu boards at McDonald’s locations way south in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Cineplex (CDM) will work alongside Arcos Dorados to provide ongoing strategic creative content, consulting services …
Get Smart With Automated Digital Signage Applications January 26, 2018 by Kenneth Brinkmann Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix We all want to be smart. The word smart means showing quick intelligence, but can also mean socially elegant and sophisticated. In project management, objectives are sometimes referred to as S.M.A.R.T., which is an acronym for specific (a targeted area for improvement), measurable (a quantifiable indicator of progress), achievable (specific short- and medium-term objectives), relevant (in line with corporate …
Panels, Fireside Chat Highlights of Feb. 7 Digital Signage Summit At ISE January 25, 2018 by Super User Munich’s invidis consulting is again putting on a half-day Digital Signage Summit at ISE, with this one running Feb. 7th from 10 to 2 inside the labyrinth of the Amsterdam RAI complex. “As with all DSS events we will be presenting the latest market intelligence and informed opinion. At ISE we will get to grips …
