SpinetiX Adds Entry-Level DiVA Player June 11, 2015 by Dave Haynes The Swiss company SpinetiX came on the market several years ago with a nice, teeny solid state media player and software platform, and pretty quietly built up its business in Europe and globally since then. It’s been a while since the firm has released a new hardware product, and that changes next week at InfoComm. The …
Projects: CAA Store Lounge Gets Wrap-around Digital Wall June 11, 2015 by Dave Haynes Maybe five minutes up the road from my world HQ and Live Bait shop is a new Canadian Automobile Association office, with a shiny new, very nice 90-degree video wall. The CAA store just opened this spring in Burlington, and the centrepiece for this new CAA concept store design is a nine-screen wrap-around video wall. There are …
Projects: Toronto’s Scotia Plaza Refreshes Concourse Level With Digital Displays June 11, 2015 by Dave Haynes Toronto’s Scotia Plaza is the head office building for one of the big five banks in Canada, and located on the underground walkway system that inter-connects most of the city’s downtown financial district. On that “PATH” level, the bank has always had a set of TV monitors showing financial news, but the bank has worked …
Ayuda Bags Static And Digital Management For Germany’s Largest OOH Firm June 11, 2015 by Dave Haynes Web stats suggest contract wins are down there with new hire announcements as posts that generate the least amount of reader activity, so I don’t cover them munch – but this contract win is big and impressive. Montreal’s Ayuda Media Systems has won the deal to handle ALL of the media management – static and …
Projects: YCD, Intel, NEC Team Up With Coke On Cinema Offer June 11, 2015 by Dave Haynes Companies like Christie and Barco have business units and focused efforts going after the cinema lobby business, as do a few software companies, but a consortium is getting help from Coca-Cola to market its blended solution. The global soda brand is working with YCD Multimedia, NEC, Intel and Littlebit Technology on what a signage and experiential offer …
Israel’s DigiGage Goes Big On Digital In Elevators June 11, 2015 by Dave Haynes My introduction to digital signage many years ago involved what remains one of the toughest kinds of installations for screens and PCs. Elevators are nothing but bumps and jolts, dust, grease and carbon, spiking voltage and wildly expensive elevator mechanics. I project-managed and cut the POs on about $8 million worth of elevator screens one …
DSrupted: Session Added On Digital Signage And The Internet Of Things June 10, 2015 by Dave Haynes The agenda is now pretty much rounded out for DSrupted, the annual conference that looks squarely at disruptive technologies in digital signage. I wanted a session on the Internet of Things, and needed it to be from someone who wasn’t going to just get up and talk about their device or process, and who could …
Samsung Shows Pair Of Slick Transparent OLED Displays At Asia Retail Show June 10, 2015 by Dave Haynes Samsung is at Retail Asia Expo in Hong Kong this week, and happily showing off a pair of new OLED displays aimed at signage applications. The more impressive of the two is a mirror OLED display panel that has a greater than 75% reflectance level, which Samsung says is at least 50 percent better reflectance than …
Video: Parallel Parking Help From A Curb-side Video Wall June 9, 2015 by Dave Haynes This is a clever campaign by Fiat run on a street in Frankfurt, Germany. To promote the parking assist technology that comes in the Fiat 500, a video wall was set up on a brick facade along a city street, with sensors watching cars that manipulated their way into an empty parking spot. The sensors …
Why I’m Going To InfoComm: Gajendra Ratnavel, L Squared June 9, 2015 by Dave Haynes L Squared is a busy digital signage software and solutions provider up my way in the Toronto area. CEO Gajendra Ratnavel will take a break next week and head down to Orlando for InfoComm. As part of a running series from readers, here’s why this guy goes … How many years have you been going …
