The 2023 Digital Signage Yearbook Now Available As A Free Download July 26, 2023 by Super User The 2023 version of the annual invidis digital signage yearbook is now available as a free download. The publication – done both as an oversized print magazine and as a PDF – has some 200 pages of stories, studies, analyses and market data, primarily about the European market. For the past two years, Sixteen:Nine has …
LG-Lufthansa JV Touts 55-Inch Displays As Commercial Aircraft Digital Signage July 21, 2023 by Super User Pro display manufacturers and software vendors are always looking for high-flying market opportunities, but I’m not sure digital signage in commercial aircraft cabins is the answer. A company called AERQ has partnered with a designer/manufacturer of aircraft cabin interiors on what it calls AERENA cabin digital signage – 55-inch super-skinny LCD panels that would integrate …
MiniLED Mainstreaming, While True MicroLED For Pro Displays Still Years Off: Futuresource InfoComm Report July 20, 2023 by Super User The UK-based research firm Futuresource sends teams of analysts to the major pro AV trade shows, and there were several people in Orlando last month for InfoComm – resulting in part in a round-up deck that the company kindly makes available as a free download to the industry at large. Portland, OR-based Ted Romanowitz does …
Media Resources Release Third-Gen Of Its Digital Billboard Light Pollution Counter-Measures Tech July 20, 2023 by Super User LED and traditional sign manufacturer Media Resources has developed and released a third generation of technology designed to reduce the amount of light from its digital billboards finding its way into the living quarters of nearby residences. The third-gen, patented SITELINE technology provides what the suburban Toronto company calls “light trespass mitigation” for LED displays. …
That Big LED With Swing-in Doors For A Live Stage Is Now Running In Times Square July 19, 2023 by Super User That giant LED display in Times Square, with LED-clad doors that swing open to reveal a live performance stage, is now operational. The musician Post Malone did a surprise dinner-hour concert on the stage Tuesday, the live video of his performance relayed in real-time on the larger screen that surrounds the stage opening. The display …
ASUS Agrees To Deal With Intel To Continue Making, Marketing NUC Mini-PCs July 19, 2023 by Super User There were already a subset of specialty PC companies who were intending to continue building their versions of Intel’s small form factor NUC PC design, but now one of the larger consumer and business PC makers is also planning to continue the mini PC line. Intel has reached a draft agreement with ASUS that will …
Korbyt Now Majority-Owned By PE Firm; Investment Brings “Significant” Growth Capital July 18, 2023 by Super User Dallas-based software firm Korbyt has a new majority owner, the Boston private equity firm Clearhaven Partners. The company in an announcement this morning said it has received “significant growth investment” funding in the deal, enabling it to grow sales and the partner ecosystem, as well as drive additional software development on its SaaS platform. “Clearhaven’s …
Florida Organic Grocer Fills New Store With LCD Ribbon Displays July 17, 2023 by Super User This is an interesting application of natively-manufactured LCDs – as opposed to cutting and re-manufacturing 16:9 screens – as ribbon displays in a small-ish organic grocery in Naples, Florida. The Food and Thought 2 store has a series of single and two-sided displays around the store, from larger-format versions suspended from the ceiling to shelf-edge …
Integrator Giant Diversified Tweaks Its Brand: Positions Itself As Disruptor July 17, 2023 by Super User In newspaper circles, this is what would be referred to as a slow news day – peak holiday season and not a whole bunch shaking out there, it seems. So we bring you news that NJ-based Diversified, one of the largest pro AV systems integrators has refreshed its brand – same name, but a tweaked …
Brussels Airport Transitions FIDS Video Walls From LCD To Fine Pitch LED July 14, 2023 by Super User It was always just going to be a matter of time when fine pitch LED costs would reduce to a point that they would fully supplant LCD-based video walls, and we appear to be there even with pedestrian use-cases like FIDS displays at airports. The airport in Brussels, Belgium has flight information (FIDS) videowalls that …
