The Rise Of The Digital Signage Device April 10, 2012 by Dave Haynes We are finally starting to see the expected transition of digital signage applications from being PC-based to smart device-based. We first saw a commercial product in the SpinetiX solid-state networked media player about three years ago, but it has not had a lot of take-up in the market because the price of the unit was …
Five Vendors I Wish I’d Seen At DSE March 16, 2012 by Dave Haynes The challenge with going to a trade show in an industry I’ve been around since we were making displays with stone tools and mud is that it is really hard to walk through that place and not end up in lengthy chats with friends. So two days was nowhere near enough for me to have …
rAVe: Kayye On Extron’s Opting Out Of Major Pro AV Shows March 14, 2012 by Dave Haynes Since breaking the news that Extron is no longer exhibiting at the InfoComm USA or Integrated Systems Europe shows two weeks ago, we’ve had a deluge of comments on our website, our LinkedIn page, our Facebook page and even ourTwitter feed. And, the opinions have been all over the place. On one side are those …
Canada’s Astral Adds NFC To OOH Capabilities March 14, 2012 by Dave Haynes Montreal-based Astral Out-of-Home, one of the largest OOH media companies in Canada, has announced plans to start using NFC technology with its street furniture inventory in two major markets. Astral is using Vancouver-based Gauge Mobile’s capabilities to let consumers walk up with their smartphones to transit posters – static or digital – and tap a …
Get It Right … Build It In March 14, 2012 by Dave Haynes I was walking through the Monte Carlo casino last week, heading to a video shoot (more on that in a coupla weeks), and enjoying the way the MGM properties in Las Vegas have executed on digital signage. All of it, or damn near all of it, looks like it was always there. The merits of …
How We Did An NFC-Social Media-Twitter Mash-Up March 12, 2012 by Dave Haynes One of the big things we wanted to accomplish at this year’s Preset Group DSE Mixer was to fully integrate digital into the event, and that meant more than just getting some digital content looping on the venue’s available screens. I was contacted, separately, by folks at two different companies, and with the help of …
signagelive Partners With Data Host Giant Rackspace February 28, 2012 by Dave Haynes The term cloud has entered the mainstream and applied to pretty much anything that uses the intertubes to communicate. You could argue any networked digital signage platform is cloud-based, I suppose. But when I think of a cloud-based platform, I think in terms of shared servers – somewhere else – that provide resources, software, and …
rAVe: Almo ProAV Named Exclusive U.S. Distributor for NanoLumens February 15, 2012 by Dave Haynes Almo Professional A/V has been named the exclusive national distributor for NanoLumens Inc., a manufacturer of of ultra-slim and lightweight flexible and rigid LED displays for use in DS, large format and signage applications. “As the exclusive national distributor of NanoLumens, we’re uniquely positioned to bring an entirely new business opportunity for displays to our …
rAVe: CE Labs’ New DS Player For Retail Coax Networks February 15, 2012 by Dave Haynes CE labs just released a new DS media player in the form of the MP500M, which is integrated with an ATSC RF (off-air HDTV) modulator. The MP500M is designed for retailers who are operating through legacy RF coaxial distribution and has a fully agile UHF modulator compatible with standard ATSC Video and Audio transport streams. …
Capital Networks To Debut Android-based Bundle At DSE2012 February 15, 2012 by Dave Haynes Way back in a DSE 2011 booth about the size of an Airbus 320 washroom, I saw a Taiwanese company (whose name escapes me) showing a flat panel display running video and coming off a little ARM (mobile phone) processor and using Android as the operating system. That was really the only sign at …
