Seneca Sets Starting Price For Its Rugged PC Sticks At $275 May 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes Seneca has now launched and fixed a $275 USD starting price on its industrialized take on the notion of PCs on sticks. The Seneca HDS media stick is ruggedized, fanless and will do a single output of 1080p HD at 60 frames per second. What sets it apart from less expensive PC sticks by Intel and …
Sixteen:Nine Podcast: Bryan Fairfield of Nanonation May 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes Bryan Fairfield is the CEO of Nanonation, which delivers digital signage and interactive for a fascinating range of clients – from Louis Vuitton to Harley Davidson to Raising Nebraska, a hands-on learning center celebrating and explaining farm life. Bryan talks in this podcast about the rise of interactive in retail and public spaces, tuning their …
Now You Can Listen To Sixteen:Nine – The Podcast May 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes Sixteen:Nine now has a podcast – a series of 25-35 minute interviews with people who are running interesting companies, doing intriguing things, or have something valuable to say about digital signage. The plan is to release a new episode every week, but we’ll see what kind of rhythm gets established (and, of course, whether anyone …
Projects: Billboard Ads Take A Break For A Midnight Moment In Times Square May 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via The Creators Project If you are making your way through New York’s Time Square very late one evening this month, you may see the LED boards around the area suddenly fill up with flowers, in an art project called Midnight Moment. At 11:57 each night, the ad rotation changes over to public art for …
Acer Adding Digital Signage To Its Bring Your Own Cloud Offer May 5, 2016 by Dave Haynes Taiwan’s Acer – which is into a bunch of things, from smartphones to small PCs – is touting its Build Your Own Cloud services platform as the hub for a digital signage solution offer. It pushed out a lengthy press release this week that I can’t really make much sense of, except that “BYOC plays …
NEXCOM Expands From Digital Signage Players To Free CMS Software May 5, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer NEXCOM has released its own, free digital signage management software, called PowerDigiS – aimed at the retail SMB market. The toolset is web-based and would seem – at least on paper – to be more than the barebones scheduling platforms I’ve seen a few times when hardware guys get into the …
8 Ways To Create Digital Signage Content That Rocks May 3, 2016 by Jorn Olsen Guest Post: Elena Lathrop, CrownTV Digital signage is only as effective as the content it displays. Screens are nothing but a medium, while content has the power to shape the customer experience and inspire action. You may have a few promotional graphics and social media feeds to share on your screens, but how do you create …
The LCD Bezel Battles Rage On, But Why? May 3, 2016 by Dave Haynes Digital signage display manufacturers have been in a pitched battle for years over whose product has the skinniest bezels, ands therefore the least discernible seams in video walls. First, we had narrow bezel. Then super narrow. And ultra narrow bezel. One manufacturer even, apparently with a straight face, now has super ultra narrow bezels. Which logically means …
Chart: LCD’s Future Is Big, As In Big Screens, Says IHS May 2, 2016 by Dave Haynes The latest IHS Digital Signage & Professional Displays Market Analysis – this one tied to Q1 2016 – says the slowdown in the economies of China, Latin America, and Eastern Europe actually shrunk the digital signage and professional display market by 3%, year on year, in 2015. But the market is coming around and is expected …
LG MRI Building Outdoor Displays To Survive And Thrive May 2, 2016 by Dave Haynes “Before we fabricate anything,” says Bill Dunn, as we’re walking into LG MRI’s 120,000 manufacturing plant, “we know that display is going to thrive, not just survive.” His company, based in the sprawling, heavily-wooded suburbs north of Atlanta, makes large-format outdoor displays for the out of home advertising business and, more recently, emerging markets like fast food …
