New Mac Mini makes best Digital Signage player out there better June 15, 2010 by Dave HaynesApple has quietly released a new version of its Mac Mini, stripping down the size, amping up its capabilities and reducing power consumption. What was already considered arguably the best digital signage player around seems to be better (though also costlier). The refreshed Mini is now 0.6 inches thinner, and even sleeker than the original. …
Another display vendor gets into digital signage software game June 10, 2010 by Dave HaynesLG Electronics has announced a turnkey digital signage solution called LG SignNET, that includes hardware, software, news feeds from CNN, and a dozen starter templates. Aimed at the SMB market, the service is set to come available by end of summer, and gives customers a full-meal deal at $179/month, for three year agreements. The deal …
InfoComm Impressions – Day One June 10, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe big AV gadget show is on here in Las Vegas, with a few days of seminars for that crowd followed by a three day exhibit hall. This show gets something like 30,000 and it is a must for people who deploy screens. I don’t have a bunch of solid impressions just yet because my …
InfoComm lookahead: Prysm June 3, 2010 by Dave HaynesI am in Las Vegas in the middle of some really good meetings, and getting set for next week, when I will be at the Strategy Institute conference and InfoComm next week. One of the technologies I am looking forward to seeing for the first time next week is the laser phosphor displays by evidently …
Digital signage players separated at birth? June 1, 2010 by Dave HaynesNews that Swiss-based Spinitex had done a deal to have its little box run with Scala, and then a dailyDOOH post about Gefen’s little box for InfoComm, got me remembering something i noticed at DSE a few months back. The two little solid state boxes – both of them potentially great for projects that need fanless …
"Oh Really!" Department: World's First "Intelligent" Media Player? May 13, 2010 by Dave HaynesThis is a reach, to put it mildly. From a press release: AOpen America Inc., the world’s leading ultra small-form-factor computer system manufacturer and digital signage solution provider has entered into an OEM licensing agreement with iSIGN Media Solutions Inc to embed iSIGN’s patent-pending Bluetooth(R) interactive software technology into AOpen’s digital media players. The move …
Nanonation demos iPad app for retail and digital signage April 20, 2010 by Dave HaynesThis is my first stab at using my little Flip video thingdoodle – kindly supplied by some friends at Cisco – to show some stuff I see at trade shows and from my other travels. The video is a quick chat with Brian Ardinger on Nanonation about the iPad app they quickly did up for …
Does Animoto's juiced-up slideshow app have a role in digital signage? Yup. March 18, 2010 by Dave HaynesI’m just coming off a very heavy project writing what I think is a great set of guidelines on creating content for a particular piece of technology, so creative is a little on my melting brain at the moment. The client does great content – among the best around – but its work is oriented …
Samsung intros super-wide 4:1 LCD for mass transit, other public spaces March 5, 2010 by Dave Haynes Samsung now has a 43-inch LCD panel that has a panoramic aspect ratio of 4:1 and does full HD-ready (1920×480 resolution) signals.
Stratacache starts new award for clever apps that bridge digital signage and mobile March 3, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe mobile industry will have a huge impact on what the digital signage industry does over the next few years. It is not technology that operates in parallel to DS screens. It’s going to be integrated, and supplanting many of the notions we all had how screens would be used. Who, for example, is really …
