Three Big LED Ovals Light Up In Dubai For DOOH Media Company July 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes A 10mm pitch LED billboard alongside a roadway is not normally something that merits much attention, but what is interesting with this one is its unusual shape. The Dubai media company Lets Ad Advertising has lit up The Ovals, three custom oval-shaped displays fitted into unique sign structures located along major thoroughfares near the Museum …
Korbyt Integrates Its Workplace Experience Platform With Crestron’s AirMedia Systems July 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes Integrations with workplace collaboration platforms like Teams and Zoom are growing commonplace for digital signage solutions and platforms targeting business communications as a vertical, but I haven’t seen as much work done with the big companies that do pro AV controls in those environments. So it’s interesting to read of a partnership Dallas-based CMS Korbyt …
UK’s EcoVista Among First AV Integrators To Get Carbon Neutral Certification July 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes Sustainability and the concept of green signage are still something of a “Yeah, whatever” in North American digital signage and pro AV circles, but they’re major topics and issues across the pond in the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe. Consider news from England, where LED display integrator EcoVista has announced its certified carbon neutral status, the …
WAVIT Launches Podcast For In Women In AV And IT To Share Stories, Insights July 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes The non-profit group set up to support and empower women working in the AV and IT industries has broadened its efforts by starting a new podcast series, as a platform to share stories and insights. The WAVIT Podcast – WAVIT is short for Women in AV/IT – is described as a natural extension of the organization’s …
Preview: Intuit Dome Provides First Look At The 38,000 Sq. Ft. Halo Display Suspended Over Arena Floor July 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes The giant halo LED display inside the soon-to-open Intuit Dome in LA had a press reveal the other day, showing off what is the biggest halo display inside an arena. The arena, which will be home to the NBA’s LA Clippers, has a double-sided halo with more than 38,300 square feet of digital canvas, using …
Nike Paris Flagship Uses LED Rotors In Glass Cylinders To Promo New Air Max Sneakers July 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes Athletic wear brands with their own stores, and retail chains that focus on athletic shoes and apparel, tend to go way over the top with visual bling in their flagship bricks and mortar environments, and this Nike House of Innovation store in Paris is a prime example. There are big, in-your-face visuals everywhere, but what’s …
Southwest Airlines Kept Flying Through Global IT Outage Because It Still Uses Windows 3.1, Circa 1992 July 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes Through Friday’s global IT outage, it started to become clear that the enterprise-level digital signage networks most affected by the CrowdStrike security update boo-boo seemed to be airports and airlines, but U.S. carrier Southwest Airlines screens were minimally affected because the carrier, somewhat astonishingly, is using versions of Windows coded in the 1990s. Numerous IT-focused …
Photos And Videos: How Windows/Crowdstrike Issues Affecting Airlines And Airports July 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes It is VERY difficult these days to discern what is real and what is the cheeky fakery of someone who knows their way around image and video editing tools. But poking around online for a while reveals some real examples of problems brought on by the Windows/CrowdStrike issues that developed overnight. Most notably, in the …
Panasonic Sells It B2B Projector Business July 19, 2024 by Florian Rotberg This post first appeared on the site of content partner invidis … According to NHK, Panasonic has finally found a buyer for its professional projector business in Orix. The Japanese financial investor Orix is said to be paying the equivalent of around 580 million euros for the ProAV business. In May it was announced that …
Ambitious Digital Signage Still Getting Deployed In Ukraine, Despite War July 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes I got a nice note overnight from a company in Ukraine, thanking me for earlier coverage of a petrol station in Kyiv that went up, with 200 sq. meters of LED display in the forecourt area, even while the war continued on and on with Ukraine’s Russian invaders. Inna Bielik from the company Fasade Master …
