Starbucks Markets Seattle Office Space It Owns Using Vast Projection Wall In Lobby November 17, 2017 by Super User There is so much fine pitch LED stuff going in as video walls these days that it is easy to forget about other ways of doing a big digital canvas, like projection. This is a project in Seattle in a building owned by Starbuck’s – but it is NOT the head office, just commercial property …
Provision, Coinstar Partner On Rollout Of 3D Holographic Kiosks November 16, 2017 by Super User LA-based Provision Interactive Technologies has done a partnership that will see its 3D holographic display and point-of-sale coupon system added to some 300 Coinstar money-counting kiosks in the U.S. before the end of this year. The partnership, says a press release, enables Coinstar to offer customers in-store savings on consumer products with coupons offered through …
ASU’s New Law Center Adds Three Very Different Video Walls November 16, 2017 by Super User This is the new Arizona State University Beus Center for Law in downtown Phoenix,, which includes three very different video walls put in by integrator Level 3 Audiovisual. There is: An 11.5 ft high by 33 ft wide, multi-window-capable Nanolumens video wall that adjusts to the desert sun through the day; A 2×6 interactive Multitaction …
Here’s A Giant Whirly-Twirly LED Sign In A Chinese Public Park November 16, 2017 by Super User This is a set of rotating screens on pylons in a public park/square in Shandong, China, which is between Beijing and Shanghai. The watermark on the video clearly shows it is a Unilumin LED product. It’s interesting. There’s a bit of a debate going on through a Linkedin post about it, suggesting this is pointless …
That Giant Coca-Cola Robotic LED Board in NYC (Surprise!) Has Issues November 15, 2017 by Super User Damn near anyone who has done digital signage or digital OOH ops work will have seen Coca-Cola’s impressive, ambitious 3D robotic LED board in New York’s Times Square and thought, “Oh, that’s going to be an uptime nightmare.” Anything with that many moving parts, out in the elements, is going to need a lot of …
Vote Early And Often November 15, 2017 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation has just sent out a link to its membership to vote for the next three weeks on new at-large members of the Board of Directors. There are lots of great industry people on the slate … and me. I don’t think I’ve run for election to anything, ever … or at …
Chicago Mall Gets Stunning Makeover With Huge LED Canopy November 15, 2017 by Super User This is great – a stunning use of fine pitch LED in the ceiling of a seven-level shopping and lifestyle center on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. The centerpiece of a makeover at 900 North Michigan Shops is a massive, 190-foot-long digital art installation spanning the ceiling of the nearly 30-year-old complex. Visible from all floors, and built in …
NDS, Tripleplay Add Support For Samsung’s Tizen Smart Display Platform November 15, 2017 by Super User A pair of well-established digital signage software firms across the Atlantic have announced integrations with Samsung’s Tizen-driven Smart Signage platform. The Dutch firm NDS has announced its flagship software PADS4 is the first software in the world that has been tested and approved by Samsung engineers to optimally run on Samsung’s System on Chip (SoC) …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Mike Kilian, Mvix November 15, 2017 by Super User Mvix is another one of those companies in the digital signage ecosystem that ticks along, doing its thing, without making a lot of marketplace noise. I assumed the software and solutions provider, based in the high tech corridor west of Washington, DC, had maybe 20-25 people. But I found out Mvix has about 70, mostly …
Leyard Wins Deal For Fine Pitch LED Backdrops For NBC’s Winter Olympics Broadcast Set November 14, 2017 by Super User Chinese KED manufacturer Leyard says it has won the deal with NBC’s Olympics broadcast team to provide multiple narrow pitch LED video walls for the broadcast sets of the upcoming Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Leyard’s LED tech was used as the production backdrop at the summer games in Rio in 2016, so …
