Guest Post: Is Open Pluggable Still Relevant For Digital Signage? July 29, 2014 by Tara Parachuk Guest Post: Manuel Edghill, Digbil Is it time to yank OPS from the digital signage lexicon? Launched in 2010, a hardware standard named Open Pluggable Specification (OPS) was released, aiming to reduce digital signage market fragmentation and simplify device installation and maintenance. It has largely failed to achieve these objectives, due to high implementation costs, …
Failing To Plan A Digital Signage Project Means Planning To Fail July 26, 2014 by MarkJanke Guest Post: Tom Pritzker, JohnRyan The old proverb “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail” may have a lot of miles on it, but it keeps getting used because it’s simple, sound advice. Big projects can go adrift quickly if good work and thinking doesn’t go into the early scoping and …
TinyGreenPC Debuts Raspberry Pi Digital Signage Player July 23, 2014 by Dave Haynes TinyGreenPC has has been doing teeny solid-state micro PCs for a few years now, but the London, UK-based firm has announced a new digital signage player based on an the Raspberry Pi-ARM micro PC. The new player is a commercial-grade version of the hyper-popular Raspberry Pi, based on a partnership with Silver Curve and already set …
LG Testing Transparent OLED Panels That Bend In Half July 22, 2014 by Dave Haynes There’s a whiff of solution looking for problem about LG’s flexible display technology, but nonetheless, it is pretty interesting to see (as relayed by OLED-info) a transparent flat panel display that is so flexible you can roll it over. The tech blog reports: Two weeks ago LG announced it has developed 18″ rollable OLEDs and 18″ …
Pattison Extends SmartAd Platform To Canada’s Outdoor LED Boards July 22, 2014 by Dave Haynes Pattison Outdoor Advertising, the biggest national OOH and Digital OOH company up here in the cradle of curling and poutine, has extended a “smart ad” system used until now on inside inventory to the big LED boards along Canada’s three paved roads. With the Adobe Flash-driven smartAD advertising engine, Pattison’s advertisers “have the ability to quickly …
Crowd-funded Star-up Creates Hybrid Of Digital Signage And Networked Art July 21, 2014 by Dave Haynes A Japanese company has launched a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign for networked screens designed to run artwork in offices, homes and other spaces. Called FRAMED, the project is billed as is the world’s first canvas for digital art. Except these guys announced their’s a few weeks ago. Anyway, what this new project does in interesting. Available in …
Projects: Walmart Using Collaborative Video Wall For Merchandise Planning July 18, 2014 by Dave Haynes Big video walls tend to be Wow Factor efforts aimed squarely at consumers and corporate visitors, but here’s one that’s set up behind the scenes as a collaborative tool for a display solutions company that has a whale client named Walmart. The CROSSMARK Center for Collaboration in Bentonville, Arkansas (home to Walmart) has a pair …
ViA Debuts Rugged Android Tablet For Digital Retailing July 15, 2014 by Dave Haynes There were dozens of companies in the various trade halls of Computex in Taiwan last month showing tablets of varied sizes, but I didn’t see many that looked tough enough to handle more than simple home usage. Ruggedized tablets have the same DNA as consumer grade ones, but they’re engineered to handle the rigors of …
Projects: Samsung Turns On Interactive Touch Walls To Peddle Appliances At Best Buys July 11, 2014 by Dave Haynes Samsung has just unveiled a new digital in-store shopping experience designed to help consumers decide on just the right home appliance. Called CenterStage, the 3 by 3 interactive video wall showcases Samsung’s portfolio of appliances in Best Buy stores with ultra-realistic, life-size displays. In a news release, Samsung says: consumers find appliance shopping confusing and uncomfortable. …
The Digital Signage Will Be In Here July 9, 2014 by Dave Haynes As a consultant who helps end-users figure out what they want to do, and what to use, I start my days with the same sorrow-filled declaration: “If only I had more software options …” OK, maybe not. I keep a database of digital signage CMS platforms and by my count, there are at least 150 …
