UK Firm Touts Light, Flexible LCD Panels That Don’t Need To Sit On Glass December 14, 2016 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Action Flick Trailer Gets Debut Across 22 Giant LED Boards In Times Square December 12, 2016 by Dave Haynes The producers behind The Fate of the Furious – which I think is a chick flick about annoyed shoppers and a woman who controls the Christmas shopping line-up outside of a Kate Spade outlet store – did a massive takeover last night of many of the LED boards in Times Squares to hype the movie and the trailer. …
Air Transat, Moment Factory Team Up On Experiential Kiosks At Montreal’s Main Airport December 9, 2016 by Dave Haynes Montreal’s Moment Factory, the experiential media agency, is involved with charter vacations air carrier Air Transat, also based in Montreal, on a new permanent installation interactive installation at that city’s main airport. It’s set up in Espace Air Transat – what I assume are the dedicated departure lounges for the vacation-centric carrier at Montréal–Trudeau Airport’s new international terminal. …
Aussie Beauty Retailer MECCA Brands Opening “Connected” Stores December 9, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Australian beauty retailer MECCA Brands has started opening what it has dubbed “connected” store – loaded with digital displays intended to connect with customers. A shop at Myer Melbourne was the first to get a set-up that includes a total of six 2×1 55? portrait columns, plus a giant 65? single landscape display. There is also …
In Digital Signage, Bigger Is Not Always The Answer December 9, 2016 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Jørn Olsen, Pronto TV I used to have an old wooden boat that I would spend a lot of time maintaining and polishing every autumn, to be ready for the next summer. Every year, my “boat-neighbors” swapped their boats to something a little bigger than last season. Instead of changing my boat every year, …
TransitScreen Gets Into Outdoor Ad Business, Sorta, With New Fenway Billboard December 8, 2016 by Dave Haynes The guys at Washington, DC-based TransitScreen are trying out a very different spin on its community data displays – partnering on a large LED billboard in the shadows of Boston’s famed Fenway Park baseball stadium. The board on Lansdowne Street shows information on subway, commuter rail, and bus departure times near Fenway, along with what’s …
DSE 2017 Same Week As Bar, Retail And Pizza (Yup, Pizza) Trade Shows December 8, 2016 by Dave Haynes It’s almost always been the case that the week Digital Signage Expo is on in Las Vegas is generally a pretty quiet week around the convention center and the city. Not in 2017. The same week that DSE is on, the convention center is also hosting the big Nightclub and Bar Show, which has a …
