Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Sakchin Bessette On How Moment Factory Grew Into One Of World’s Top Multimedia Agencies January 17, 2018 by Dave Haynes Fantastic creative is at the heart of any great digital signage project, and when I am asked to rattle off the names of creative shops capable of doing top-level work, Moment Factory is automatically in there. The Montreal-based creative technology group has evolved from a small collective doing VJing and just, basically, have a …
Still Talking Clients Out Of 4K? Good News – 8K’s Coming!!! January 15, 2018 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip Display Daily If you are in digital signage and having a swell time explaining to clients why they really, really don’t need 4K when full HD is more than awesome for the task at hand, you will be bouncing in your high chair with word that 8K will start to be a thing …
New Hughes App Puts Digital Signage Platform On LG webOS Smart Displays January 12, 2018 by Dave Haynes Hughes Network Systems is the latest company to port its digital signage CMS player software to run on LG webOS system on chip smart displays. The webOS player is compatible with all of the Hughes MediaSignage platform – from corporate comms apps to menu boards. “With this solution, Enterprises of all sizes can easily install our …
This Wild Data Visualization Shows Traffic Flow For Entire U.S., Hour By Hour January 11, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is kind of wild – a visualization of traffic flow across the U.S. – hour by hour. Sacramento-based mobility analytics solution provider Citilabs has used billions of data points to measure and then develop a graphic visualization of hour-by-hour origin-destination movements, all streets directional road volumes and traveler demographics based on derived home locations. The …
Vegas Airport Car Rental Shuttles Now Kitted Out With GPS-Enabled Ad Screens Inside January 11, 2018 by Dave Haynes It’s kinda hard to get excited about ad screens in shuttle buses, but a new case study out from BrightSign is interesting not so much for the product, but the insight and how this stuff is done in things that are moving, bouncing and bumping, and probably exposed to all kinds of power spikes …
Take A Video Stroll Through LG’s Amazing OLED Canyon At CES January 11, 2018 by Dave Haynes Here’s a video and some good pix showing the LG OLED canyon that leads into the company’s mega-booth at CES this week. The OLED Canyon has 90 concave and 156 convex open frame screens. Visitors walk through a 28m long twisting canyon trail and experience images produced by a total of two billion self-emissive OLED …
County Fair Concession Operator Using LED Screens To Sell More Maui Chicken And Pupu Wings January 11, 2018 by Dave Haynes Were there any doubts about LED displays coming down in cost to a point that they’ll go from expensive one-offs to commonplace, consider the story of Chicken Charlie’s, a San Diego concession stand that has good-sized, finer pitch LED displays that fire up when it sets up in places like county fairgrounds. The operator worked with New …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: ISE Director Mike Blackman Previews The 2018 Show January 10, 2018 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is now just a matter of weeks away, with the doors to the massive pro AV trade show in Amsterdam set to open on February 6th. The show has broken attendance records in recent years, and it looks very much like the 2018 number will exceed last year’s count of 73,000-plus. ISE …
You Walk Through An OLED Slot Canyon To Get To LG’s CES Booth January 9, 2018 by Dave Haynes Via Korea Times and AV Interactive The entrance to LG’s monster booth at CES in Las Vegas this week is a 28 metre-long winding walkway of flexible OLED displays, set up to mimic one of the slot canyons hikers might find in nearby Utah or Arizona. The LG OLED Canyon has 90 concave and 156 …
OAAA Releases Report On How Out Of Home Mediacos Fit In Smart Cities January 8, 2018 by Dave Haynes The Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) has released a study looking at how the development and implementation of smart cities creates opportunities for the out of home advertising industry, and how media companies need to plug in. “The smart cities phenomenon is creating real opportunities for the OOH industry,” the report says. “As cities …
