Retail Services Provider SageNet Hires Director Of Digital Signage January 4, 2018 by Super User Tulsa, OK-based managed services and cybersecurity solutions provider SageNet appears to be getting seriously interested in the digital signage business, having just hired industry vet IV Dickson as the company’s new Director of Digital Signage. “Our digital signage business unit is continuing to enjoy strong growth, and IV brings to the team the leadership, experience …
Twin Experiential LED Video Walls Light Up Lobby Of Chicago’s Aon Center January 4, 2018 by Super User The Aon Center, one of Chicago’s tallest and most recognizable buildings, has followed the lead of some other major commercial office properties in turning a feature in the lobby to a giant LED digital wall. Part of a recent renovation of its lobby and atrium included a pair of 42-foot-wide by 10-foot-tall direct view LED …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Dan Garner On How Xibo Makes Money From Free, Open Source Software January 3, 2018 by Super User By far the busiest post on the Sixteen:Nine blog is one that lists the many options out there for free, kinda sorta free, or free to start with digital signage CMS software. One of the oldest – and among the few that are legitimately free – is Xibo, an open source digital signage solution that …
LG To Show 8K OLED At CES; Samsung Rumored To Show Micro LED TV January 2, 2018 by Super User Numerous tech blogs are reporting that LG will be showing an 8K OLED display this year at CES. The 88-inch display has a resolution of 7680×4320, which is 33 million+ pixels. “The successful development of the world’s first 8K OLED display is a milestone for the 8K era and underscores the exciting potential of OLED,” …
Canada’s National Arts Centre Switches On North America’s Largest Transparent LED Wall January 1, 2018 by Super User Last night, on a very frigid New Year’s Eve, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada officially switched on a three-storey signature LED display called the Kipnes Lantern. It is the largest transparent LED screen in North America and fills the windows of the newly rejuvenated building in the capital city. It is using Vancouver-based …
Pro AV 2017 – A Year In Review December 31, 2017 by David Kaszycki GUEST POST: ALAN BRAWN, BRAWN CONSULTING When most of us think about evolution, we think in terms of slow change over decades or even centuries. When we see change in front of our very eyes, that’s something else. Some might even call it disruption. This would be an apt description of what has gone on …
A Totally Unfiltered, Public Digital Messaging System – What Could Go Wrong??? December 28, 2017 by Super User There is much hand-wringing underway in Toronto after a new subway station opened with a $500,000 art installation that let anyone walk up to a kiosk and put up a brief eight-character message on a set of suspended lights. The installation at the city’s just-opened new Pioneer Village station serves as functional lighting but the …
Looking Ahead To ISE 2018 December 27, 2017 by Super User The next big industry-ish trade shows are CES in Las Vegas and NRF in NYC, but I am definitely skipping CES (mostly consumer tech and a too damn many people, everywhere) and I am too busy to sneak down for the retail show. So my head is now getting into Integrated Systems Europe, which is …
Twin LED Walls Light Up 55 Water Lobby In Wall Street December 26, 2017 by Super User This is a nice pair of 20 by 8 foot fine pitch LED screens that have been lit up in the lobby of 55 Water Street, in the Wall Street district of Lower Manhattan. The total resolution on the screens is 6,400 by 1,260 pixels, which I assume means each of them is 3,200 by …
Sixteen:Nine’s Best Of 2017 December 21, 2017 by Super User I’m working with a UK company on formal awards – and at some point I might actually have time to review the entries (there are numerous judges) – but I have my own thoughts on what impressed me in the past year. Going down the list, which is not in any order, most of these …
