Finally, A Hand-Cranked Digital Sign February 11, 2013 by Dave Haynes The only time I’ve written about kiosk-maker Zivelo was to slap them around on some really goofy PR, so I am happy to this time instead reference something a little out there, but nonetheless pretty interesting. The Marion, Indiana-based company (small town, 3 hrs south of Chicago) has launched what it calls the X-Eco kiosk, …
A 201-inch LED Display That Hides In The Ground February 8, 2013 by Dave Haynes This is just flat ridiculous in so many ways, but the technical design is pretty interesting in terms of what an events center or other large public facility could, at least theoretically, do with it. Put together by a German company, C-Seed, with a design by Porsche Design Studio, it’s a 201-inch waterproof LED board that …
When Digital Signage Really Would Be TV … February 6, 2013 by Dave Haynes I have seen press releases and stories here and there about how the broadcast spectrum came available when analog TV went digital had opened up white space to use for micro broadcasts in distinct settings, like digital signage programming in big box retail and large corporate facilities. The dual-headed argument has been that WiFi is …
LG Plugs In 11-Foot Tall 4K Display Beast At McCarran February 6, 2013 by Dave Haynes Well this happened faster than I would have predicted. A lot of the buzz from the display panel companies, coming out of last month’s CES trade show in Las Vegas, surrounded 4K displays. I wrote at the time that it would not take long before these ultra-ultra-ultra high resolution displays found their way into digital …
Sightings: Transparent LCDs Done Right January 29, 2013 by Dave Haynes I followed a link to some unrelated video from the show floor at ISE in Amsterdam, which (as often happens online) took me somewhere else and to this piece of video. This company, TransLook, does the much-copied transparent LCD thing, but does content way, way better than most of what I have seen out there. …
New Digital Poster Runs, Updates Off Solar January 29, 2013 by Dave Haynes The marketplace potential for monochromatic signs probably has a relatively low ceiling, but nonetheless there are theoretically lots of basic paper signs that could be replaced with this newest generation of electronic ink displays if the ROI made sense. Plastic Logic and SERELC have developed and are now marketing a low-power outdoor digital signage solution …
Low Bandwidth, High Quality H.265 Video Gets Standards OK January 28, 2013 by Dave Haynes In what’s kind of a big deal for ops guys and people who pay the bandwidth bills, the International Telecommunication Union has approved the H.265 video encoding standard, which means the same piece of video can have its file size reduced by half without compromising quality. So if you are moving a lot of video …
AMD Comes Up With Its Own Gizmo January 25, 2013 by Dave Haynes If you think the Raspberry Pi $35 is pretty cool and cheap and all that, but also think it’s a bit like running a donkey at The Preakness, AMD has a more expensive nerd-tinkerer gadget that it says is well-suited to low-cost digital signage apps. AMD has launched the $199 Gizmo board, described as …
Samsung To Launch Really Smart TVs For Digital Signage Market January 25, 2013 by Dave Haynes One thing that seemed pretty obvious when the panel guys started releasing smart TVs for the consumer market was that one of them would see the opportunity in also making a Smart-er TV for the commercial market, and more specifically for digital signage. Samsung appears to be the first to do so, with commercial flat …
Capital’s Android Player Among 2012 Best Of Picks January 25, 2013 by Dave Haynes Congratulations to the folks at Capital Networks – sixteen:nine blog and 2013 mixer sponsors – who picked up the Product of the Year award from Signage Solutions magazine for its Audience For Android player. Dallas-based Signage Solutions has made Best Of picks in 12 industry categories. You can find all the picks here …
