Nervous About Migrating Your Digital Signage Network To A New Platform? Here’s How To Make It Painless. January 22, 2024 by Christian Armstrong Guest Post: Christian Armstrong, Spectrio Switching digital signage management software can solve ongoing problems and better meet the needs of end-users, but a successful, largely seamless technology migration will owe a lot to careful upfront thinking and planning. With networked digital displays increasingly central to how businesses communicate with their customers, business partners and staff, …
Wildly Ambitious Plan Makes Saudi Stadium One Big Experiential Display January 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes We’ve seen ambitious sports and entertainment stadiums go up in recent years that made LED displays – like halos in Atlanta and LA – a big part of the design and venue experience, but here’s a somewhat mind-blowing plan for a new stadium in Saudi Arabia that sees much of the building inside and out …
ISE 2024 Sixteen:Nine Mixer Sponsor Profile – How SignageOS Makes Digital Signage Ecosystem Accessible To Everyone January 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is coming on quickly, and Sixteen:Nine is again doing a Barcelona version of the networking mixers it has been doing since forever. The sold out event happens because of eight great sponsors who help cover the considerable costs of the evening, including tapas and an open bar. I like to thank and …
10,000 Posts … And Some Of Them Even Made Sense! January 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is post number 10,000 on Sixteen:Nine, with coverage dating all the way back to early February 2006. I started doing this as a bit of an outlet for my frustration with the word salad nonsense that passed for industry thought leadership way-way-way back then. I had already been in the sector for seven years …
Proto Launches RetailSage, Pairing Hologram-ish Displays With Conversational AI January 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes The company that originated (as far as I can tell) the idea of using transparent LCD displays as life-sized hologram-ish visual illusions has now worked conversational AI into its expanding product offer. LA-based Proto, known in its earlier days as Portl, was at NRF in New York earlier this week and announced what it calls …
ISE 2024 Sixteen:Nine ISE Mixer Sponsor Profile – Ergonomic Solutions On How And Why It’s A World Leader In Advanced Technology Mounting Solutions January 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is coming on very quickly, and Sixteen:Nine is again doing a Barcelona version of the networking mixers it has been doing since forever. The sold out event happens because of eight great sponsors who help cover the considerable costs of the evening, including tapas and an open bar. I like to thank …
Oh The Irony: A Windows Pop-Up Error Message On The Big Screen Of A Microsoft Store January 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes Pop-up Windows error messages on digital signage and digital screens has been a source of regular amusement in this industry for many years, but it is particularly funny when the pop-up message is on a big screen above the entry to a Microsoft store. This is in New York – at the Fifth Avenue location …
PPDS Launches Free Content Creation And Scheduling App For Its B-Line “Business TVs” January 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes PPDS has added entry-level, on-premise CMS capabilities to update and manage content on its Philips B-Line series of 4K Business TVs – enabling users to create and schedule content off of a new and free app called PPDS Publisher. The B-Line series – available in 43 to 75-inch variants – involves 16/7-rated consumer TVs that …
Almost 3,000 Computer-Controlled Tiles Mimic Sea’s Motions In This Giant Kinetic Sculpture January 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is not digital signage, and more an alternative to the big LED visuals that have been schemed into newly-built experiential environments in the last few years. Like big video walls, this project uses real-time data to drive the visual experience. It’s a giant kinetic sculpture that encompasses a grand staircase on a new cruise …
STRATACACHE, Scala Push Deeper Into Retail With New Ordering And Checkouts Capabilities January 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes The long-running digital signage software platform Scala has been focused in recent years on retail as its main vertical – and that’s even more the case now with the launch of what’s been called Scala Commerce. It’s a suite of in-store consumer self-service and service automation platforms tuned specifically to the retail, hospitality and closely-related …
