Shuttle Joins The Digital Signage ARM Race February 11, 2014 by Dave Haynes Longtime small PC maker Shuttle Computer Group, based in City of Industry, California, is launching a line of ARM-based, full HD digital media players this week at DSE. “Whether you’re looking for a straightforward ARM-based player or the most sophisticated system for complicated video wall installations, Shuttle has the answer for all applications,” says Marty Lash, …
PQ Labs Touts New Quad-Core Android Digital Signage “Stick” February 11, 2014 by Dave Haynes San Jose-based PQ Labs has announced a new Android HDMI stick it touts as the most powerful on the market. I’m not sure if it really is, or not, but it certainly has some power under the hood. The iStick A300 is a 1.6 GHz quad-core and can take a solid state hard drive as …
Glasses-Free 3D Goes 4K February 6, 2014 by Dave Haynes I was wondering if next week’s Digital Signage Expo would have any companies there still trying to get the industry interested in glasses-free 3D – a tech that seems to move people quickly from amazed to ambivalent. Turns out there is, and it’s a bit different. Buffalo-based pro AV distributor Stampede Presentation Products will be …
DSE Disrupted Tech Talk Approaching Sold Out February 5, 2014 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Expo team tells me the seminar on Disrupted Technology that I’m chairing/moderating/referee’ing a week today ion Las Vegas is approaching sold out. There were 100 registrants as of today and the room can take a dozen or so more. So … let’s sell it out!!! The session is Wed. Feb. 12 at …
Preset Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Capital Networks February 4, 2014 by Dave Haynes I go back 15 years now with Bil Trainor and his crew at Capital Networks, most of them the same people. Loyal bunch, which says a lot about the company and the guy who runs it. Capital Networks is a Toronto-area provider of dynamic digital signage software solutions for digital signage, digital display networks, digital …
In Proximity Marketing, You Can Use NFC Or Abuse With BLE February 3, 2014 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Frank Viljoen Proximity Marketing has received a lot of attention lately – all of it focused on the idea of using technology for the localized distribution of advertising content associated with a particular place. The key word about this tech is distribution, and the big question to ask is whether that distribution comes …
YCD’s Live Player Joins Android Digital Signage Parade February 3, 2014 by Dave Haynes YCD Multimedia has joined the ever-growing list of mainstream PC-driven digital signage software companies that have developed a variation for low-cost Android playback devices. In an interesting spin, the company has also released what would be a browser-driven version tuned to Samsung’s proprietary Smart Signage Platform. The two new products are being showcased this week …
Digital Out Of Home Is All About Location, Location, Location February 2, 2014 by Ryan Gushue Guest Post: Jeremy Ozen, Vistar Media Whether you’re house-hunting or just watching people do that on HGTV, you’ve doubtlessly heard the magic triplicate phrase: Location. Location. Location. But “location” is no longer just the provenance of the real estate industry. Location, increasingly, is the domain of the marketer. For those of us who have embraced …
Baanto’s Touch Tech Gets Faster, Snappier, Easier February 1, 2014 by Dave Haynes I’m in over my head almost immediately when it comes to assessing the tech and the value of touchscreen technology, but the simpleton thing I really do know is that many of the large format touchscreens and overlays I’ve tried in the marketplace are buggy, slow to respond and don’t behave much like what consumers …
New Barix Solution Pushes Digital Signage Audio To Smartphones February 1, 2014 by Dave Haynes Barix is at ISE and DSE over the next couple of weeks demo’ing what it says is a unique solution to get audio into retail and other digital signage environments by sending the sound to smartphones via WiFi. I’ve seen stuff like that before, so I don’t think the concept is unique, but perhaps the …
