Projects: National WWII Museum Issues Digital Dog Tags October 17, 2016 by Super User I was in New Orleans for a few days last week, and felt lucky to have the time to tour the National World War Two Museum that has become a huge attraction in that city. It has been around for a few years , and recently added some new digital wrinkles I thought were worth sharing. …
Samsung Starts Shipping New P Series Of Tizen-powered Smart Displays October 17, 2016 by Super User Samsung has launched a new P-Series line of smart signage displays that are the first shipping with the Tizen operating system – the OS the company is shifting most or all of its information devices over to. The series has seven models, including 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays with 700 nits, 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays …
NEC Makes Its Displays Smart Using Raspberry Pi October 17, 2016 by Super User NEC Display Solutions will start marketing and shipping commercial display panels early next year that that have low-cost Raspberry Pi computer modules in them, effectively making them a new variation on smart digital signage displays. This is a notable shift for NEC, which has stayed out of the embedded system on chip display business that Samsung, …
Back At HQ October 17, 2016 by Super User And we’re back … Have been traveling much of the last two weeks, so posts have been spotty, and there’s stuff to catch up on. Look for posts on Samsung’s system on chip platform going to the Tizen OS, NEC adding Raspberry Pi support for its displays, an upcoming webinar with Canonical and BroadSign, the …
Your Digital Signage Project Needs A Point, And A Plan October 14, 2016 by Mitch Leathers Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler Digital Signage So, if you are reading this article, you must have something to do with digital signage. We read articles that go on and on about how digital signage systems can do this, or can do that. We listen to podcast about service providers, content providers, hardware providers. …
How To Unify Sales, Marketing And Customer Service With Digital Signage October 13, 2016 by Stu Armstrong Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix Sales and marketing have been aligned in the corporate world for years, even integrated, in many respects. But what about customer service? Forbes magazine says that, in today’s customer-driven era, customer service is no longer just a post-sale activity, but is part of the total buying cycle. Business.com compares the …
NanoLumens Adds Super Fine Pitch, Front-Serviceable LED Display To Lineup October 12, 2016 by Super User Atlanta-based NanoLumens made its name with lightweight, flexible indoor LED displays, but like other display manufacturers has in the past two years gone hard after the fine pixel pitch LED market. It’s hard to win on price against a sea of Chinese manufacturers, so Nano is marketing based on slightly more esoteric attributes like performance, serviceability and footprint. …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Kurt Dupont, PresentationPoint October 12, 2016 by Super User We’re talking PowerPoint this week, the presentation software that has usually been regarded with abject horror by people who’ve been around the digital signage industry for years. While using PowerPoint templates to generate slides for signage systems is the fast lane to mediocrity, that’s not what Belgium’s PresentationPoint does with its software. For the last couple …
UK Access Control Firm Adds Construction Site Digital Signage Offer October 11, 2016 by Super User In a hyper-competitive market like digital signage software, it’s important for most companies to choose a vertical market and go after it with focused products. Here’s an example of a company that isn’t really in the signage software business, but has nonetheless developed a software product that is laser-focused on a vertical industry – in …
Projects: Toronto’s Casa Loma Projection-Mapped For Halloween Attraction October 10, 2016 by Super User The Toronto landmark Case Loma, a Gothic Revival-style house that looks like it could be used for a Canadian version of Downton Abbey, has been transformed this month as a projection mapping surface for a Halloween attraction. It is part of Legends of Horror, an immersive theatrical experience that will take guests more than 1.5 kms …
