Wallboard Software Integration Makes Color E-Paper Displays A Little Bit More Like Regular Digital Signage Screens March 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes E-paper displays operate largely on the fringes of digital signage activity because what they can do and how they are managed are both limited, but the US-Hungarian CMS software company Wallboard has completed development work that pushes the possibilities of the new-ish Philips color e-paper displays being marketed by PPDS. The Wallboard integration of …
Redeveloping JFK T4 Adds Big Range Of Useful Screens To Guide, Inform Passengers March 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes The redeveloping Terminal 4 at New York’s JFK Airport has switched on some of the new digital display components designed to improve passenger experiences, and the focus appears to be heavily, and happily, on helping travellers navigate the process and place. There are a pair of 285-foot continuous LED video walls, and another 120-foot wall, …
CRI Posts Record Revenue, Gross Profits; $14.5M Sales In Q4 March 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes I don’t like putting too much of a focus on one company – in good times or bad – but Creative Realities is one of just a small handful of digital signage companies that are public, and therefore have to open their so-called kimono and show the rest of the industry what’s going on. And …
Networking Giant Ubiquiti Has Digital Signage As An Add-On Solution March 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes We’ve seen, though the years, all kinds of companies of varying sizes and product focuses find their way into digital signage – in part because it is relatively easy to bolt on a simple media play-out software application to broader solutions and platforms. A good example of that is the video collaboration business, with companies …
Here’s A Much Smaller LED-Lit Sphere, But This One Is Kinetic And Called Morph March 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes It’s much easier to work up enthusiasm for shape-shifting kinetic LED displays when they’re used inside and do something that can’t also be done just in the creative – like this very different take on a sphere from an Australian creative technology studio. It’s called Morph. The sphere uses 80,000 LED light emitters, set in …
Sphere Gets It First Big Booking For A Corporate Event March 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes When the Sphere in Las Vegas went up and then opened, all of the attention was on the multimedia show on the exterior and the “residency” of U2 for a series of concerts played with the giant LED backdrop on the inside. But like any venue, it needs a steady stream of activity to pay …
Boring Is Beautiful: Schiphol Airport Relays Arriving Baggage Status For Passengers Waiting At Carousels March 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes I was chatting the other day with an industry veteran who shares my possibly strange affection for what I call boring digital signage – data and sensors-driven information that is pretty much the polar opposite of on-screen eye candy. It’s just content that informs and guides. Here’s a really good example of that … screens …
Loop Media Board Shows Door To Most Of C-Suite, Starts Layoffs, In Wake Of Ops And Finances Review March 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes The LA-based connected TV service Loop Media – which makes free, ad-supported content channels and digital signage functionality available to businesses – has bingo’d most of its C-Suite and laid off some staff in an effort to slow its burn rate. Jon Niermann is stepping down as CEO, but retaining a board seat, and COO/CMO …
Only Things Standing After Twister Takes Out Indiana Taco Bell Are Menu Display Totems And Kiosks March 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s a compelling argument for why the engineering design for outdoor digital displays is about much more than just the brightness of the screen and the ability to exhaust built-up heat. That stuff is super-important, but so are things like how the enclosure is fixed to the ground. Just about the ONLY Thing left standing …
LED Mainstreamed: A 400-Foot Wide LED Billboard On A Parking Garage March 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s more and different evidence of how LED is now a thoroughly mainstreamed display product: a 400-foot wide display on the side of a parking garage in Las Vegas, well away from the strip. This is the Stadium Parking Garage, which has 638 much-needed parking spots across the street from Allegiant Stadium, where the Super …
