Will There Be A Pantenna Under The Tree For You? December 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes This deserves a big audience – the annual festive season video from the folks at signage solutions provider Telecine in Montreal, sent out this afternoon in an email blast. Your host is Telecine owner James Fine. Very well done! You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Vimeo. To access the actual content, click the …
NCR Sales Rep Probably Dancing After Bagging Bojangles Rollout December 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes The big POS company NCR, which now calls itself a leader in omni-channel solutions, has bagged a deal to provide the digital signage solution for the Southern US-centric fast food chain Bojangles. The chain will use NCR Vitalcast at its company-owned stores, which makes up more than 40% of the total stores in the roughly 700-unit Bojangles …
Future Interfaces Lab Pairs Phones To Big Touch Displays Using Just The Phone Camera December 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes Finding a seamless link between digital signage/interactive displays and smartphones has so far been something of a bridge too far – the problems being a need for certain technologies to be included or installed on the phone. A new system from the Future Interfaces Group research lab at Carnegie Mellon University takes a run at the challenge, …
This Giant Digital Board Slides On Tracks At Singapore’s Changi Airport December 19, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Singapore office of JC Decaux has switched on an impressive digital landmark ad displays at Changi Airport, which routinely wins awards as the best airport on the planet. It’s a very large 4.8mm pixel LED board, which would be a bit of a “yeah, so?” situation if it wasn’t on tracks and sliding back …
Retail Strategist: We’re Moving Away From Gimmickry And Gadgetry December 16, 2016 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
