NRF: A Crowded Digital Signage Field Gets Even More Crowded January 12, 2015 by Dave Haynes The last time I was at the big National Retail Federation trade show in New York, digital signage was something you saw here and there – in small solo booths or as one of the interesting services wedged into the mega booths of major tech companies. What struck me, wandering the aisles of NRF 2015 …
JohnRyan Adds Portable Player Designed To Shrug At Hardware Type And OS, And Just Work January 8, 2015 by Dave Haynes The bank-centric digital signage solutions provider JohnRyan has released what it calls its Portable Player, a web-based media player application that’s touted as capable of driving digital signage media useable across all types of hardware and operating systems. The web-based player works with JohnRyan’s Quick Messenger digital signage content platform. Web based players from signage …
Forget Digital Billboards On Highways, Put Them In Cars! January 5, 2015 by Dave Haynes General Motors is touting a new OnStar feature, announced at CES, that would push hyperlocal advertising and promotions to equipped cars and, presumably, their dashboard screens. Called AtYourService, the opt-in feature would enable “information, convenience and money-saving values” to be automatically delivered to cars. For the launch, GM referenced how the service could push directions and …
HP Announces New $180 Windows Micro PC January 5, 2015 by Dave Haynes HP has announced a new teeny desktop PC that will raise the eyebrows of the crowd that’s endlessly looking to cut both cost and size out of digital signage projects. Timed to the CES show, the computing giant has announced its new $180 HP Stream Mini, which looks VERY similar in form and equal in …
Next Week’s CES Will Switch On Quantum Dots Chatter, So What Is It … January 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes Las Vegas is about to be even more of a zoo than normal – if normal is a word you can attach to that city – as the annual Consumer Electronics Show ramps up. As it is every year, a lot of the stuff on the show floor and in the private areas is very …
Projects: 4K Displays Create Virtual Balconies On Cruise Ship December 31, 2014 by Dave Haynes This is pretty wild. The cruise ship giant Royal Caribbean’s new Quantum of the Seas ship has installed 80-inch portrait-mode 4K displays in its interior staterooms (the ones that could never have windows anyway) to create virtual balconies. The displays get a streamed feed – I’m guessing via fiber – from a set of high-def RED …
CEW Trade Show Discontinued December 29, 2014 by Dave Haynes I saw news elsewhere online that Customer Engagement World – the annual trade show in New York – had been shut down, but wanted to get direct confirmation myself before relaying it here. Joel Davis, the JD in show manager JD Events, confirmed for me via email that the news is accurate: “JD Events has …
Man At Center Of Digital Signage Patent Scraps Sued For Racketeering December 29, 2014 by Dave Haynes Florida’s State Attorney General has filed racketeering and fraud charges on the guy broadly regarded as digital signage’s patent troll, alleging David Gothard stole millions of dollars from victims by making false promises and offering stocks that turned out to be worthless. A story in the Naples Daily News alleges that since 2003, Gothard and his companies engaged …
LG’s New LCD Screens As Skinny As iPhones December 29, 2014 by Dave Haynes The display industry is getting very close to that moment when flat panels are so skinny and light they can be hung on walls like artwork. Consider this: LG Display will be showing off a new line of TVs – called the Art Slim series – at CES next week in Las Vegas, with the …
Samsung Adds High-Brights To Smart Signage Line December 18, 2014 by Dave Haynes Samsung has announced a new line of 2,500 nit high-brightness displays in sizes ranging from 46- through 75-inches, with those system on chip media players built in. The OMD series displays are more than bright enough to park in high ambient light environments, as well as outdoor – the latter needing custom-designed weatherproof enclosure. The panels …
