Sixteen:Nine Podcasts – Eric Henry, Tightrope Media Systems June 14, 2017 by Dave Haynes Tightrope Media Systems has been around the digital signage business for 20 years, and if you’ve heard of the company, there’s a decent chance you thought, like me, that the Minneapolis firm was a broadcast software company that also did a signage CMS. Turns out it was the other way around, and Tightrope started as a digital …
E Ink’s Programmable Surfaces Gets More Colors June 13, 2017 by Dave Haynes E Ink has added more colors to that programmable Prism technology that can be used to make things like feature walls in lobbies changeable. The Taiwan-based company says Prism will be available in seven paint-like colors that can switch out even using just a battery. Says the company: Integrated with traditional architectural materials, E Ink …
NanoLumens Files Patent Infringement Lawsuits Against Four US Competitors June 12, 2017 by Dave Haynes Atlanta LED manufacturer NanoLumens has filed four patent infringement lawsuits against competing companies it says are marketing knock-offs of its flexible LED display panels, called nixels. The federal court lawsuits have been filed in the US head office states of four companies: PixelFLEX, of Nashville, Tennessee; InFiLED USA, of Marietta, Georgia; DetaiLED Solutions, of Marietta, …
NanoLumens Adds Infrared-based Touch To Fine Pitch LED Displays June 9, 2017 by Dave Haynes Atlanta-based LED manufacturer NanoLumens has added infra-red edge sensors to make its narrow pixel pitch LED walls interactive, if needed. “It used to be extremely difficult to add interactive elements to LED displays, but recent technological breakthroughs have made it much more feasible, practical, and affordable,” says NanoLumens CEO Rick Cope. “Our touch technology is fully …
Sweden’s ZetaDisplay Continues Roll-Up Of Scandinavian Digital Signage Companies June 9, 2017 by Dave Haynes The Swedish firm ZetaDisplay continues to roll up other companies in the Scandinavian market, doing a deal to acquire Seasam Oy, the second largest supplier of digital signage in Finland. The company, based in Malmo, had done deals earlier for other providers in Finland and Norway. Seasam has about 20 people and a customer base that …
Projects: Massive Video Wall Lines Moving Sidewalk In Seoul Rail Station June 9, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a massive LCD video wall – maybe 16 wide by 3 high – in a corridor of a high speed rail station in Seoul, as spotted in LinkedIn from Sungwon Kim. No other details. The scale is impressive.
Panasonic Spin-Off Starts Demo’ing 8K Digital Signage June 7, 2017 by Dave Haynes The practical use-cases for 8K digital signage aren’t readily apparent, but a Japanese tech company owned in part by Panasonic is demonstrating just that – suggesting the demand for that is tied to the 2020 Olympics on Tokyo. Nikkei Asian Review reports: Adopting a special semiconductor chip efficient at compressing and transmitting image data, the …
New Tightrope Device Management Set-Up Makes Apple TVs Commercial Digital Signage Players June 7, 2017 by Dave Haynes St. Paul, MN-based Tightrope Media Systems has integrated its digital signage content management software with an Apple-centric device management platform that ends up turning little $149 Apple TV set-top boxes into commercial digital signage players. The integration with JAMF, says Tightrope, provides immediate interoperability between Carousel 7.0 and Apple TV. “As new Apple TVs registered with the JAMF …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Rick Mills, Creative Realities (CRI) June 7, 2017 by Dave Haynes If you have followed the digital signage business for a few years, you have probably seen stories about the financial tailspins of a set of companies that eventually got blended together as Creative Realities, or CRI for short. Sitting in the cheap seats watching it all go down, I’m sure I wasn’t the only one …
Screenly Adds Open Source WordPress Plugin For Digital Signage June 6, 2017 by Dave Haynes The Raspberry Pi-centric CMS software firm Screenly has written a plugin for WordPress that allows users to generate simple presentations for a signage network off the blogging and website management platform. It’s not a replacement for a signage CMS, but more of a means for users on a network that already know WordPress to produce …
