Top 10 Video Wall Trends For 2017 January 20, 2017 by Hoa Tong Guest Post: Tim Griffin, Userful With the new year now in full swing, the technology industry is looking ahead to the big, broad trends that will drive video wall decisions and win over video wall budgets in the year ahead. Here’s my countdown on the top trends will see emerge or continue in 2017: 10: Continued …
City Of Toronto Weighs Media Partnership To Juice Up Major Square With Yet More LED January 20, 2017 by Dave Haynes Via Urban Toronto The city of Toronto is going down the interesting path of being a major media partner in the city’s busiest public gathering point – Yonge-Dundas Square. A proposed $3.8-million deal for Outfront Media to put in a series of large format LED screens in the square has cleared the city mayor’s executive committee, …
Back To The Future In Retail Tech January 19, 2017 by Jeff Doud Guest Post: Stuart Armstrong, ComQi In an odd twist, a massive high-tech investment in omni-channel, big data and IoT is taking retailers back to the future – back to something they used to know and do well: creating relationships with their customers. Older generations grew up knowing their local grocer. Their butcher. Their druggist. It …
Houston Museum Switches On 90-Foot Ticket Counter Video Wall January 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes The Houston Museum of Natural Science has a newly renovated box office area topped by a 90-foot wide L-shaped video wall that uses 63 55-inch narrow bezel displays. The displays are divided into seven groups of nine each, running off controllers by group, and the whole wall can be taken over by one high-rez visual, as …
Pivoting, Interactive Digital Street Signs Now For Sale In Europe January 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes I saw this thing in Amsterdam at ISE 2016, and the French company couldn’t give me much in the way of detail on how much or where it would be available – other than North American NOT being a planned marketplace. A year on, France’s Charvet Digital Media appears to have refined its digital street …
Sidewalk Campaign Uses Digital Displays, Sensors To Shame Swedish Smokers January 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes A Swedish pharmacy chain, Apotek Hjärtat, is running a digital OOH campaign in that country that uses sensors and triggered content to needle and shame passing cigarette smokers. When someone on the street walks near the digital poster, cigarette lit, a smoke sensor picks that up and triggers a video file on the display’s player that …
NRF2017 Impressions: Lotsa Actionable Analytics January 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes NRF is not a digital signage show. There are lots of signage vendors at the show – with booths or just walking around. It’s a retail tech show full of stuff that will be largely unfamiliar if you live and work in the digital signage bubble. But it’s a valuable show to walk if retail …
Planar The Latest Displayco To Add “Smart” Displays January 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes Beaverton, Oregon-based Planar has started marketing a 4K pro display series that includes an embedded, networked Android media player capable of driving 4K resolutions and ready for h.265 video and HTML5. It looks, however, like the only way to manage these displays is via Planar’s own ContentSmart management software – which at a quick glance …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: NRF Special Edition With RDM, Unefi, Show Impressions January 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a special edition of the 16:9 Podcast – special because the format’s a little different and because I’m turning this around too quickly to get it polished up by the guy who sound engineers these things. So no music. Maybe a bit more background noise. The levels are anything but level. But it’ll …
AOPEN Now has Sub-$200 Commercial Grade Chromebox; $350 Chromebase Tablet January 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes Taiwan-based AOPEN started showing off a pair of new commercial-grade Chrome devices yesterday at the NRF show – a smaller, much cheaper solid state Chromebox and a tablet-sized Chromebase. The latter, the Chromebase Mini, is a 10.1 inch all-in-one touchscreen that would compete with commercial-grade tablets and small system on chip displays. You could imagine it being used …
