Five Reasons Why Your Organization Should Be Using Digital Meeting Room Signs April 8, 2016 by Bryan Crotaz Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix There are many powerful arguments to be made for using digital meeting and conference room signs for shared spaces in any organization – whether it’s an office, healthcare facility, conference center, college campus or K-12 school district. 1 – Integrative Room signs bring your calendar right to your door, and your door …
Jobs: Digital Signage Retail Project Engineer, New York April 7, 2016 by Super User I have a client that works with high-end retailers that needs to bring on a project engineer who can design and source solutions based on requirements of clients. Think video walls, integrated display fixtures … generally cool stuff, as opposed to mounting panels on walls. The gig is in New York City and Brooklyn, and can’t be …
Forget The Ad Model, Use Phone-Charging Kiosks To Keep Shoppers Shopping April 7, 2016 by Super User I’m not at all sold on the idea of screens on phone charging kiosks being a successful digital OOH media model, but the charging kiosks themselves – used purely as services – are proving successful in retail environments. The National Retail Federation’s STORES magazine has a piece up this month about how retailers like Neiman Marcus, …
Are Your 4K Players Really True 4K? April 7, 2016 by Jami McGraw Guest Post: John C. Wang, IAdea At every recent digital signage trade show, 4K or UHD (ultra-high resolution) has been a heavily promoted feature for next-gen displays. Research firm IHS recorded 95% year-over-year growth in 4K screen shipment in 2015. This may be the result of a strong push from display makers to generate market demand for showing …
LCD Or LED? For Digital Signage, It Depends April 6, 2016 by David Kaszycki Guest Post: Alan Brawn, Brawn Consulting Believe it or not, digital signage is seen each day by over 70% of the population. Research shows that we spend an average of 8 hours per day in front of a screen of some type, including televisions, computers, tablets, smartphones, or increasingly… digital signage. Pretty much everywhere you …
Forget The Rules, Subway Going Ahead With Calorie Counts On Menuboards April 5, 2016 by Super User It’s starting to look like the whole thing about the QSR business going to digital menu boards, because of FDA regulations, is going away. The QSR industry isn’t waiting on rules requiring that its menu-boards show calorie counts. Major operators are just going ahead and doing it. Why that matters is the digital signage business has …
TransitScreen Raises $800K To Chase Real Estate Tech, Smart Cities Business April 5, 2016 by Super User Washington, DC-based startup TransitScreen – which mashes up open source data like transit and traffic conditions as feeds and finished screens – has completed an $800,000 seed capital raise. The money will be used, says the company, to expand sales and product growth in the real estate tech and smart cities verticals. The investors include DC-based …
Seneca Hosting Webinar On New Commercial-Grade Digital Signage Stick PC April 5, 2016 by Super User Custom computer manufacturer Seneca is doing a webinar next week – Thursday, April 14 at 2 – on the little commercial-grade PC on a stick it recently announced. The Syracuse-based company describes the HDS as the first media stick form factor purpose-engineered for professional digital signage. There are lots of Android sticks on the market, …
116,200 Reasons To Not Dismiss Raspberry Pi As A Digital Signage Option April 5, 2016 by Super User Anyone in the digital signage business who shrugs off the interest in low-cost micro PCs and free/freemium software as hobbyists and church IT volunteers, equipped with almost no budget and stubborn natures, should keep these 116,200 things in mind. 116,200 page views, that is. That’s the number of page views on this site, so far, …
UC View Debuts Raspberry Pi 3-Powered Digital Signage Player April 4, 2016 by Super User I’ve heard widely varied opinions about the ability to run a digital signage application on a Raspberry Pi – the super-cheap UK micro PCs that emerged a few years ago. My general sense is that its applicability owes a lot to what you want to achieve on a screen, in terms of programming. Like most things in …
