Digital LED Waterfalls At Casino Lounge Replicate Real Falls In Nearby Mountains April 20, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a really interesting use of fine pitch LED in a new resort casino in New York state’s Catskills region. It’s a 2.5mm pixel pitch curved wall behind the Empire Lounge bar stage at Resorts World Catskills, which opened about 10 weeks ago. The 42 feet wide, 13 feet tall canvas has a resolution …
Milestone Shutting Down Brand, But You’ll Still Buy Chief Mounts, From Legrand April 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes If you are used to dealing with Milestone for Chief display mounts and related tech for your digital signage projects, you should know that the Milestone brand is all but done – and the company is consolidating branding under its new owners, Legrand. Milestone has pushed a notice out to customers and partners that says Chief, …
Projects: Mosaic Video Walls At Stella McCartney Flagships April 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is the video wall set-up being put in at 11 Stella McCartney flagship stores across Europe, the US and Asia, highlighting the spring and summer collections for the fashion house. UK integrator Freehand put the project together, developing visual interesting mosaics instead of just grouping them in big rectangles in the high street windows. …
16:9 Podcasts: Megan Dutta On The Launch And Goals Of Women Of Digital Signage April 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes Megan Dutta and Andrea Varrone have been longtime friends in AV circles, and spoken often about putting together an organization that represented the interests and aspirations of woman in this industry. They finally saw time open up last summer and started organizing what turned into Women of Digital Signage. The group had its first gathering …
LED And The Perils Of Public Reach April 17, 2018 by Dave Haynes Medium to fine pitch LED displays can have tremendous visual impact in the right environment, but the thing customers should always bear in mind is that the little surface-mounted LED chips that produce the colored light are fragile – attached to their substrates with microscopic wiring. In plain terms, if they’re within public reach – …
Struggling German Visual Solutions Firm Eyevis Acquired By Chinese LED Giant Leyard April 17, 2018 by Dave Haynes The big LED display manufacturer Leyard, based in China, has acquired the German video wall and display cube company eyevis – giving the company a greater sales and marketing foothold in western Europe and into the Middle East. The announcement names both Leyard and Portland, OR-based Planar (which Leyard acquired) as the companies leading the …
How We Demystified Shelf Digital Tags, And Put Them To Use April 16, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Matt Downey, Freshwater Digital A couple of years ago my company started researching and contacting e-paper (or ESL manufacturers, as they’re commonly referred to) to learn more about the requirements, capabilities, and costs of digital shelf tags. We’re a digital signage solutions company to the core, but this new technology intrigued us. Living …
Danish Company Adds Tweakable Mood Settings To Art-Based Digital Signage Service April 14, 2018 by Dave Haynes A small Danish company has added a new wrinkle to its fine art-based digital signage content platform – tweakable mood settings. ArtPlayer, says a press release, can display artworks and nature pictures based on your selected mood setting: Happy, Sad, Calm, Excited, Awed, Disgusted, Angry or Afraid. This is done using artificial intelligence and advanced …
Research Suggests Buyer Confidence Increasing Numbers Per Site Of Commercial Displays April 13, 2018 by Dave Haynes New research is suggesting confidence in the durability of commercial display products will mean the numbers of them will grow, per location, by 20 percent over the next three years. A new report from the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association (AVIXA) and PMA Research says that growth will happen even though replacement cycles for displays …
New Version Of Intuiface Works In Interactive Web Triggers From IFTTT Recipes, Zapier Apps April 13, 2018 by Dave Haynes The French interactive software firm Intuilab has released a new version Intuiface that now allows content to be triggered based on really common Internet of Things web triggers, like IFTTT recipes. The company says while it has for several years supported data integration with third-party platforms, IntuiFace Version 6.2 adds Web Triggers that work with …
