Hip To Be Square: Now There’s A 60-Inch Square LCD November 1, 2023 by Super User It’s not a milestone or advance that will set the pro AV world on fire, but it is interesting nonetheless that it’s now possible to source a 60-inch square LCD display for digital signage jobs. UK-based specialty display manufacturer Crystal Display Systems had an overnight email blast that touted the “Largest Square Display in the …
Changi Re-Opens Terminal 2 With Digital Waterfall, LED Halos And Virtual Sky November 1, 2023 by Super User Singapore’s Changi Airport has consistently been ranked as one of the best airport experiences anywhere, and while there are undoubtedly many operational reasons for that, our interests here are of course on what it does with digital. After 3.5 years of work, the upgraded and expanded Terminal 2 fully reopened today – with the terminal …
SpinetiX, Sharp NEC Partner On Upgrade-Capable Smart Pro Displays October 31, 2023 by Super User The Swiss digital signage hardware/software SpinetiX has partnered with Sharp NEC Display Solutions Europe to market a different take on so-called smart commercial displays – units that ship with Spinetix software on Intel compute modules that can slot-load into certain pro displays. The all-in-one displays run the Spinetix DSOS operating system and Arya CMS. One …
Friend-shoring: Moving Product Manufacturing Closer To The Markets October 30, 2023 by Florian Rotberg The annual Digital Signage Yearbook produced by invidis, with contributions from Sixteen:Nine, was released this summer as a free download – and we’re now running some of the articles from that yearbook here. First up, a piece written by invidis managing director Florian Rotberg about the recent trend of friend-shoring – companies shifting production and …
PPDS Upsizes Its E-Paper Tableaux Series With 32-Inch Unit To Launch At ISE October 30, 2023 by Super User PPDS is adding a modestly-upsized version of its full-color e-paper Tableaux display – a larger 32 inch version it will show for the first time at ISE in Barcelona. A 25 inch version of the Philips Tableaux series – the e-paper component is from E Ink – was brought on to the market earlier this …
Are You Getting New Post Emails October 27, 2023 by Super User A reader let me know that he and his colleagues have not been getting the email notifications about new Sixteen:Nine posts, which go out with each post. I did not know this was happening, and am not sure why. I use WordPress as a CMS, and all kinds of things can go haywire with plugins …
Start-Up Cloudshelf Expands Beyond Shopify With API That Works With Most E-Comm Platforms October 27, 2023 by Super User The UK start-up that developed a way to smoothly bridge Shopify small business e-commerce sites to in-store retail kiosks and interactive screens has now come up with a software handshake that works, it says, with just about any e-commerce, CMS, or ERP platform. “We believe that every retailer should be able to create a seamless …
Digital Signage Experience Announces 2023 DSE (DIZZIE) Awards Finalists October 26, 2023 by Super User Finalists have been announced for the Digital Signage Experience Awards – nicknamed the Dizzies – that recognize great installations or campaigns that apply the technology. The awards will be announced during the trade show and conference, which is coming up Dec. 2-5 in Las Vegas. Here is a compilation video … The DSE Awards Finalists …
Interesting: A Big All-In-One LED Display That Folds In October 25, 2023 by Super User All in one LED displays are now commonplace across a variety of manufacturers – in part because they offer portability, but probably more so because the companies selling them and the customers buying them can readily get their heads around the idea of a giant TV. It’s far easier to explain a jumbo TV than …
VSBLTY Advances Deal To Acquire Grocer-Focused Retail Media Operator Shelf Nine October 25, 2023 by Super User Philly-based VSBLTY has progressed from an LOI to a definitive purchase agreement for retail media network operator Shelf Nine, which has some 4,500 screens running in US groceries. The deal is positioned as a merger and is built around shares, as opposed to a cash transaction. It also appears to get Shelf Nine clear of …
