Retail Strategist: We’re Moving Away From Gimmickry And Gadgetry December 16, 2016 by Super User I love this quote in the Toronto Star, from the head of Retail Strategy for Accenture in Canada: “(We’re going to be) moving away from some of the gimmicky and gadgetry that we’ve seen until now, like digital screens you can interact with but they don’t really add to the experience,” said Kelly Askew. Yeah. …
France’s Videospot Adds WordPress Digital Signage Plugin December 16, 2016 by Super User A French software firm, Videospot, has added to the still short list of companies that have developed WordPress plugins to make digital signage run on the hugely popular website and blogging content management platform. “The idea,” says Videospot’s Pierre Arlaud, “is that you can create a page or a mini site under WordPress. You may …
Screenfeed Goes Beautifully Minimal With New Spectrum Weather Service December 15, 2016 by Super User Loyal 16:9 blog and podcast sponsor Screenfeed just announced a very nice new subscription weather service that takes advantage of HTML5 to be highly configurable and animated. Called Spectrum Weather, the service has a wonderfully minimalist look that flies in the face of ALL the cluttered, often cheap looking layouts that persist in the signage marketplace. …
Quividi Adds Software Tool To Easily Pair Specific Digital OOH Ads With Specific Viewers December 15, 2016 by Super User The French firm Quividi has announced a big enhancement of its video analytics software suite – adding a new tool called VidiStudio that allows network operators and agencies to easily set up digital OOH ad campaigns that are tailored to the people looking at them. The scenario design, as it’s described, has a drag and …
Rent The Runway Opens Digitally-Savvy NYC Flagship December 15, 2016 by Super User The upstart fashion retailer Rent The Runway – which rents designer clothes to women somewhat the way men have rented formal wear for many years – has opened a digitally-savvy flagship store in lower Manhattan. The store on W. 15th Street uses a variety of Samsung displays, including 32-inch touchscreen tandems that cycle through visuals but …
Christie Announces New Super-Skinny Bezel LCDs For Video Wall Market December 14, 2016 by Super User Christie has started marketing a new, premium set of narrow bezel LCD displays aimed at both the control room and digital signage markets. The new Extreme Series – blessed with the tongue-twisting product names common to display companies (FHD553-XE, FHD553-XE-R, FHD553-XE-H, and FHD553-XE-HR) – have some interesting wrinkles like pre-calibration, auto adjusting brightness (for changing …
UK Firm Touts Light, Flexible LCD Panels That Don’t Need To Sit On Glass December 14, 2016 by Super User As seen in Display Daily A Cambridge, UK company, FlexEnable, has started demonstrating a new type of LCD display that doesn’t need to be married with glass, has a fraction of the weight, and is flexible. The organic liquid crystal display (OLCD) technology supports full colour and runs smooth video, with the company suggesting digital signage …
Seneca Touts $250 Solid State, 1080P, 60 Frames Windows Box Out Next Month December 13, 2016 by Super User Rob Suffoletta from Seneca came up to Toronto from Buffalo last week for some meetings and to catch the DSE mixer. We pre-gamed a beer before the actual mixer, and he pulled a gadget out of his briefcase he wanted to show me. The specialty PC company, which is owned by distribution giant Arrow, makes a …
Hungary’s Telenor Uses IntuiLab’s DIY Tools To Build Interactive Shopper Experiences December 13, 2016 by Super User The Hungarian wireless carrier Telenor has opened 13 digital concept stores this year that try to bridge how their customers work with them on mobile and on desktops, with interactive digital stations in the store. “We see that our customers start prefering our electronic channels over traditional customer service: they purchase their devices in our webshop, …
Viewsonic Latest Commercial DisplayCo To Add “Smart” Display Series December 13, 2016 by Super User LA-based Viewsonic is the latest commercial display manufacturer to introduce a set of digital signage-centric panels that come with embedded Android media players. The company’s new CDM Series comes in 43, 49 and 55-inch versions, and they are equipped with an A9 ARM quad core processor and 16GB eMMC storage, which can be expanded to 32GB …
