Inside Secrets For Making Great Digital Signage Content October 18, 2016 by Dina Townsend Guest Post: Linda Hofflander, Skykit I’ve seen some really bad digital signage content in my 15+ years in the digital signage business. I’ve seen signage using long bullet-point lists on default PowerPoint themes. I’ve seen neon yellow text on a royal blue background, so bright it made my eyes hurt. I’ve seen low resolution images …
Webinar: Why World’s Largest Digital Signage Networks Use Linux October 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes On Wednesday, noon Eastern, I’m doing the third digital signage webinar in a series with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux. This one’s on why Linux is the media player OS of choice for a pile of networks and CMS companies, and arguably the most active of those companies is BroadSign, which has about 50,000 …
ScreenFeed Makes FIDS Displays A Subscription App October 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes Flight arrivals and departures displays were in the early days of digital signage something akin to a killer app – something that needed no ROI exercise to demonstrate the value, but something that also required specialty software and software/data integration expertise. Companies like Omnivex and PresentationPoint did a lot of trade in FIDS solutions for airports …
Freshwater Digital Packages $125 Monthly For Turnkey Digital Signage Solution October 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes The digital signage business seems to inexorably going turnkey – with most vendors I chat with saying that’s the ask and end-users saying that’s how they want to see things play out. On a broad scale, that means integrators and the largest software firms are offering a full range of capabilities in-house or through sponsorships. …
Projects: National WWII Museum Issues Digital Dog Tags October 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
