Does Your Idea Of Relaxing At Beach Include Watching Digital Billboards Float By? October 8, 2017 by Super User A Miami-based media start-up is running a boat along the Miami Beach shoreline that features back to back LED displays – effectively creating a floating billboard. So your relaxing day at the beach can now include big ads for ride-share services and local restaurants wafting back and forth. The 46-foot wide boards go back and …
ClearChannel Provides Las Vegas LED Board Inventory To Aid FBI Investigation October 7, 2017 by Super User The Las Vegas office of ClearChannel Outdoor has partnered with the FBI to put material on digital billboards around that city related to the recent shooting massacre. The boards will feature the slogan: “If you know something, say something.” People will be encouraged to call a tip line. While what happened and who did it was …
Video: 360 Degree Virtual Real Estate Tours Run Off A Chromebit October 6, 2017 by Super User I know very, very little about the inner workings of media players and things like graphic cards, but what I do know is that I have seen enough interactive virtual tours on different devices to know they’re often choppy and sluggish. They’re smooth, usually, when there’s a PC with a dedicated graphics card driving things. …
NYC Penn Station Adds Intersection Digital Screens On Amtrak Concourse October 6, 2017 by Super User Seriously busy, seriously dumpy NY Penn Station got a little bit of a digital facelift with the addition of a dozen digital totems in the Amtrak concourse, with the screens providing passenger information, bankrolled by digital OOH ad spots. The station handles a staggering 600,000 passengers a day, so it gets a lot of coveted …
Samsung’s Display Roadmap Adds More LED, More UHD, Ends Small And Square Screens October 5, 2017 by Super User Marco Nalli of Samsung invited a bunch of people in architectural/design/consulting up to the company’s Canadian head office in suburban Toronto on Wednesday for a bit of a lunch and learn, to talk about current digital signage product and the North America product roadmap. I made a rare trip away from the live bait shop/office to …
Sharp Starts Shipping Its 70-inch Video Wall-Ready LCDs October 4, 2017 by Super User We’re at a point with monitors that a 70-inch unit doesn’t even sound all that big anymore, but it’s a bit different when it is a monitor to use as one of many as a video wall. Sharp will start shipping this month a 70-inch display – the PN-V701 – built for 24/7 video walls. …
AVI-SPL Grows Footprint, Acquiring Canada’s Sharp’s Audio Visual October 4, 2017 by Super User On the immediate heels of Diversified announcing its acquisition yesterday of MCW, rival integrator AVI-SPL announced this morning its acquisition of one of the largest pro AV integrators in Canada, Sharp’s Audio Visual. The Calgary-based company has a footprint in eight cities and six provinces, and does design and integration of audio visual systems technology for meeting …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Neil Farr, Acquire Digital October 4, 2017 by Super User Being a best-kept secret in an industry can be deadly for a company, but it’s worked out OK for Neil Farr and his Leicester, England company Working Solutions, which trades under the brand Acquire Digital. For 20 years, the company has been developing a meaty, diverse software platform that will do all the core aspects …
Diversified Adds Electronic Security Skills, Business By Acquiring MCW October 3, 2017 by Super User New Jersey-based integrator Diversified continues to roll up the technology solutions provider market in the U.S,, announcing today the acquisition of Ashburn, VA based MCW, an IT and AV systems integrator with particular strengths in electronic security and surveillance. The acquisition expands Diversified’s services into an established book of electronic security business across the U.S. and Europe, adds …
Kiwi Startup Brings Reverse Auction Fan App To Digital Signage October 3, 2017 by Super User Via New Zealand Herald A New Zealand startup called DROPIT has an interesting sports engagement app designed to keep fans involved in games during breaks, instead of staring at their phones. It’s a reverse auction application that’s tied to scoreboards and other digital signs around sports venues, with fans encouraged by the big screens to …
