What The Rapid Adoption Rate For 4K UHD Means For Digital Signage November 11, 2016 by Dave Haynes The marketplace, at least in the US and by extension Canada, is going 4K UHD at a rate far quicker than the advent years ago of HDTV. The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has announced holiday season shipments of 4K UHD televisions in the United States are expected to reach 4.5 million units, bringing the total for the …
Back At HQ – New York Round-Up November 11, 2016 by Dave Haynes Back at World HQ after a few days in New York doing various things, and finding myself, unplanned, in the middle of the US election. Though the real story was in Washington – and in certain ways the countrysides of Ohio, Pennyslvania and Wisconsin – there was a pile of media and people in Times …
Maybe Big Indoor LED Canvases Don’t Need To Have Crazy-Fine Pixel Pitches? November 9, 2016 by Dave Haynes I’m in New York for the InfoComm Connections conference today, and I suspect it will be a very interesting day to be in the city, given the events of last night. I had a chance Tuesday to do a big walk around to look at a bunch of installations, and the things that struck me are …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Brad Parler, Blinds.com November 9, 2016 by Dave Haynes A couple of years ago, an old industry friend, Raffi Vartian, said I really needed to see something. He sent me a link to a video, I watched it, and sent back a note saying, “That’s FREAKING brilliant!” The video was for a corporate communications project at the Blinds.com offices in Houston, Texas, and it showed staff-facing messaging being …
Cineplex Digital Media Rolling Out Digital OOH Display Network in Canada’s Ivanhoe Cambridge Malls November 7, 2016 by Dave Haynes Cineplex Digital Media has announced it won an RFP process to install, maintain and operate a digital OOH display network at 21 Ivanhoé Cambridge shopping centres across Canada. The network involves nearly 230 digital displays at Ivanhoé Cambridge mall properties across Canada. The display solution is a combination of double-sided 86-inch “Floor Media” displays, as well as displays on …
Even Raspberry Pis Have Low Cost Knockoffs; Meet The $15 Orange Pi November 7, 2016 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Jason Cremins of SignageLive for noticing this on TechCrunch … The Raspberry Pi micro PC started as a program aimed at teaching UK schoolkids about computing, but has also taken off in the business market, including in digital signage, because it offers the prospect of a serviceable computer for $35-$45. Even $45 seems crazily …
Tech Manufacturing Giant Foxconn Merging Augmented Reality And Digital Signage November 3, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via Nikkei Asian Review Monster Asian technology manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn Technology Group, has announced its funding of a newly-formed startup aimed at bringing augmented reality into digital signage. Foxconn Executive Vice President Lu Fang-ming did an augmented reality presentation, showing his image dynamically integrated into real-time graphics, at a demo Wednesday …
Soofa’s Color Epaper Information Stations Start Deploying On Boston Sidewalks November 3, 2016 by Dave Haynes Here’s one of the first sightings in the wild of a 32-inch color epaper display being used for public information. An MIT Media Lab spinoff called Soofa has started installing public information displays in Boston, running off nothing but solar power and updated using a 3G M2M wireless connection. Developed by Soofa, and running on …
BroadSign To Drive 3,500-Screen Ad Network For French Hypermarket Group November 2, 2016 by Dave Haynes A lot of the deals that get announced in press releases by software vendors aren’t big enough to get more than a shrug from people outside those companies, so I don’t tend to bother writing them up. But there are ones, here and there, that are big enough and sufficiently different to warrant some attention. Montreal-based …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Mark McDermott, ScreenCloud November 2, 2016 by Dave Haynes This week we’re talking content management software with Mark McDermott, the CEO and one of the co-founders of ScreenCloud, which offers a platform that looks, feels and works like much of what we do online with other subscription software tools. That’s because ScreenCloud grew out of Codegent, a software solutions company that was, and is, in …
