Digital Signage Summit Europe Draws Big Crowd In Munich May 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes I am in Munich, Germany this week for the Digital Signage Summit that the consultancy and publishing company invidis has put on for many years in its home city, which explains why the volume of posts is maybe down a bit. This is my second time here, and it continues to impress me as a …
How To Make In-Store Retail Media Responsive To Consumer Moments May 22, 2024 by Ron Levac Guest Post: Ron Levac, Spectrio The core idea of digital signage in retail is putting screens where shoppers go, and hoping the messages on them get noticed and influence purchasing decisions. But what if you could tune the messages to that moment when consumers notice, and respond to what they do? A new generation of …
LED Giant Daktronics Debuts New Media Player … For LCD Displays May 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes In a move that would quite possibly confuse the hell out of people, but makes sense, the big US LED display manufacturer Daktronics has announced a new media player engineered to drive LCD displays. But Dak doesn’t make LCDs, some cross-eyed readers are perhaps muttering after reading that. True, but the Brookings, SD company gets …
Retail Media Networks Are About A Lot More Than Just Eyeballs May 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes If the digital signage industry was a highway, its roadside would be littered with the carcasses of companies that put their self-funded screens and media players in retail environments – trying and, in most cases, failing to make a viable business from selling advertising. Many years on, that operating model remains flawed, but the recent …
Sharp’s US CEO Stressing TV Plant Shutdown In Japan Not An Indicator Of Any Larger Issue For its Pro AV Business May 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes Sharp’s US office was in touch after I posted a story earlier in the week that suggested the company was getting out of the TV business, hoping to reinforce that while a TV production facility in Japan is indeed being shut down, The President and CEO for Sharp globally Wu Po-hsuan said Tuesday in Japan: …
DISPLAX, Interactive Scape Mash Up Technologies For New Take On Interactive Tables May 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Very good, hyper-responsive multitouch technology has been mashed up with slick object recognition tech out of Germany for an interactive table aimed at markets like museums, showrooms and military/police situational awareness rooms. The product – called Tile Pro | Scape X – blends the touch technology from Braga, Portugal’s DISPLAX with the objection recognition tech …
NCR Voyix Partners With GRUBBRR On Kiosk Tuned To Spiking Demand In QSRs For Self-Service Ordering May 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Point of sale giant NCR Voyix is going after the spike in demand for self-service ordering and payment kiosks in the restaurant sector by launching what it calls its Aloha kiosk, which has GRUBBRR’s software running under the hood. Kiosks, the company says, address ongoing issues the food services industry is facing – including finding …
Here’s A Futuresource Video Recap Of Emerging Display Tech From Displayweek Show May 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Ted Romanowitz of the UK research firm Futuresource Consulting focuses his analyst eyes on the LED sector, so it is not surprising that he headed down from Portland, OR to Silicon Valley this week to take in the Society For Information Display’s annual nerd-fest Display Week. He’s produced a quick recap video that’s worth a …
Owner Foxconn Shutting Down Sharp’s TV Display Business May 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes Japanese electronics giant Sharp announced this week it is getting out of the TV display business, shutting down production lines in Japan and looking at selling businesses. This is televisions, not pro displays, so that does not mean InfoComm is a last stand for Sharp NEC, which markets high-end commercial displays, projectors and other systems. …
SID’s Display Nerd Fest This Week Includes Much Brighter OLEDs, Auto Dashboards As Displays May 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Society for Information Display’s annual Display Week symposium and exhibition is on right now in San Jose – attracting the very technical side of the digital signage and pro AV community, as well as all kinds of engineers working in everything from automobile dashboard designs to military systems. I’ve been to this event, which …
