Ross Video Exits LED Display Business, Just Two Years After Acquiring D3LED December 15, 2023 by Super User In a move perhaps best described as curious (or maybe inevitable), Ross Video has announced it is getting out of the LED display business, two years after acquiring D3LED and getting squarely in that business. The Ottawa, Canada pro AV tech firm announced its plans Thursday to “exit the LED display business and is now …
Watch: 164 Smartphones Stacked Like Christmas Tree To Create Unique Video Wall December 14, 2023 by Super User This is a fun retail project in Chile that somehow or other sync’s up 164 Samsung Galaxy smartphones to deliver messages on a digital Christmas tree. The set-up uses Novisign’s CMS software and its “Screen Sync” to get all the phones mapped and capable of behaving like a very big and complicated video wall, except …
Staying On Top Of Seasonal Promotions And Messaging Gets Easier, More Accurate, Using Digital Signage December 14, 2023 by Emily McCue Baldeschwiler Guest Post: Emily McCue Baldeschwiler, Spectrio There is a lot more to seasonality in retailing and food services than spring, summer, fall and winter, and digital signage technology offers a way for operators to not only stay on top of all the changes seasonality requires, but also profit from them. Consumers are familiar with products and …
Black Rifle Coffee Starts Rolling Out CRI’s Digital Signage Solution Across Its Chain December 13, 2023 by Super User Creative Realities, Inc. has announced a deal that will see its digital signage solutions built in to the customer experience for locations of Black Rifle Coffee, a US coffee chain that has close ties with active-duty military members, veterans, and first responders. The solution is in place in a new-design store, and the intention is …
Public Information Display Market Up Almost 14% Year On Year: Omdia December 11, 2023 by Super User New research released by Omdia suggests the public information display market has bounced back from a dip a year ago, with interactive displays being the biggest growth driver in sales and shipments. The research firm Omdia says in highlights from its fee-based Public Display Market Tracker 3Q23 that the public display market saw a 13.8% …
Visionect Release CMS Tuned And Optimized For E-Paper Displays December 11, 2023 by Super User For logical reasons, I think we all get so fixated on the energy-sipping “green” characteristics of e-paper displays that we kind of forget that software manages and drives these things, just as it does for LCDs, OLEDs and LEDs. The Slovenian firm Visionect has been focused for years and years on making monochrome e-paper displays …
Lenovo Launching New Pocket-Sized, Sold State Chromebox Micro Media Player Tuned To Digital Signage, Kiosks December 4, 2023 by Super User PC maker Lenovo is launching a new take on a Chromebox that just might be the most suitable yet for commercial applications like digital signage. The Chromebox Micro media player is a $219 USD solid state unit that’s about the size of a smartphone – small enough to tuck in behind a display and designed …
Narrow Pitch Outdoor Is LED’s Next Big Leap Forward December 1, 2023 by Larry Zoll Guest post: Larry Zoll, LED Studio We’re fortunate to work in an industry that innovates quickly, changes the way people interact with their surroundings and has the capability to excite and captivate. Nowhere has this been more evident than the past decade, with big leaps in technology moving us from DIP displays, to SMD, to …
Making Shop Floor Meetings More Effective with Digital Signage December 1, 2023 by Tomi Paajanen Guest Post: Tomi Paajanen, ValotaLive In manufacturing, both front-line leaders and employees tend to spend a lot of time in various discussions to ensure everything is running smoothly. Unfortunately, this often makes everyone feel they lack time for “real work.” A big chunk of the blame goes to ineffective shop floor meetings. Let’s look at …
Display Industry Finally Settling On Definition Of True MicroLED: Futuresource November 30, 2023 by Super User Image: PlayNitride The misleading labelling and fuzzy marketing that has surrounded the emergence of large format microLED displays is starting to go away, says an expert display market analyst, with the industry starting to broadly agree on what really is a microLED video wall – or more specifically, a True MicroLED display. “Over the last …
