Is This The Most Digital Signage-Rich Store In Canada? January 4, 2017 by Dave Haynes There’s always some other place with more, but in my travels, I’ve just come back from the most digital signage-rich store I’ve seen to date. The Best Buy at Heartland Town Centre in Mississauga, a city part of the greater Toronto metropolis, has screens everywhere. I wouldn’t say it was incredibly well done. Or cohesive. …
LG Showing Wallpaper OLEDs And Stacked OLED Columns At CES January 4, 2017 by Dave Haynes LG Display is evidently pushing all in on OLED displays this year, announcing a series of new displays that will be showing at CES this week and almost certainly at ISE in Amsterdam in a month. LG Display will show off paper-thin 65-inch and 77-inch UHD OLED displays for TVs that can be attached to …
Projects: Taipei’s Bus Stops Get Smart January 4, 2017 by Dave Haynes Much of the buzz about smart city initiatives involving public displays has been around ambitious and expensive standalone info-stations like the 600 or so now operating in New York City, but there’s also stuff that’s quite a bit more pedestrian and easily integrated with existing structures. This is in Taipei – one of some 85 …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Rich Ventura, NEC Display Solutions January 4, 2017 by Dave Haynes Rich Ventura now has the launch codes and the secret handshake instructions to act as the 2017 chairman of the Digital Signage Federation. He’s been active in the organization for several years, and has big plans for the year ahead. He’ll go into that in the latter half of this podcast episode, but we spend …
Italy’s inVRsion Bringing Virtual Reality Into Retail Store Planning January 3, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’m starting to become a bit of a believer in virtual reality as being relevant beyond gaming and some highly specialized applications, and looking forward to checking out an Italian start-up called inVRsion at NRF in New York mid-month. The company seems pretty focused on how VR could be used for business purposes, as opposed …
If Godzilla Was Into Reading, This Would Be His Kindle January 3, 2017 by Dave Haynes E Ink will be showing a 42-inch active matrix e-paper display this week at CES in Las Vegas. Think of it like a Kindle for Godzilla. The new display, 10-inches larger than the previous jumbo e-paper display (32″) is part of the E Ink Pearl product line for the company. Nobody needs a 42-inch Kindle and Godzilla …
Distribution For Digital Signage Explained January 3, 2017 by Geoff Bessin Guest Post: Joel Dart, Ingram Micro When I go to industry events and meet people just coming into the digital signage industry, the conversation invariably comes around to who I work for and what we do. When I say Distribution, I’ll often get a somewhat blank stare. It’s a key part of the Canadian and …
Year In Review: Top 16:9 Podcasts In 2016 January 3, 2017 by Dave Haynes The 16:9 Podcast series started last spring and went over better than whatever expectations I may have had for the effort. To date, there have been some 75,000 downloads of the 35 episodes put up to date. That’s more than 2,000 downloads per episode. Here’s are the five most popular episodes of 2016: Chris Lydle, …
ISE Is Five Weeks Out; 65K+ Expected For Massive Systems Integrator Show January 2, 2017 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is now five weeks out and it is time to start looking over plans for the big trade show in Amsterdam, primarily what companies are there that aren’t normally seen closer to home in North America. There are 445 companies listed in the digital signage category for the show, and of course …
Year In Review: 16:9’s Top Posts For 2016 December 30, 2016 by Dave Haynes This year is pretty much done and dusted, so let’s take a look at what stories on 16:9 generated the most traffic in 2016. You’ll immediately notice a couple of trends. First, people like numbered lists. Second, readers are looking to trim costs – hence the heavy traffic on posts about free software options and low …
