Court Filings On $200M Lawsuit Filed By Cooler Screens Against Walgreens Detail A Big Freaking Mess June 20, 2023 by Super User An industry friend sent me a copy of the complaint filed with an Illinois court regarding the dispute between US chain drug giant Walgreens and Cooler Screens, the DOOH start-up that was retrofitting the store’s chiller sections with custom-made transparent LCD screens embedded in the doors. It’s a big freaking $200 million mess. The heavily …
Liquid Crystal Supplier Confirms Large-Format LCDs Are A Sunset Technology June 20, 2023 by Super User One of the key suppliers of liquid crystal technology for flat panel display makers has pretty much confirmed what we all sort of know – that LCDs are a sunset technology and various flavours of LED and OLED are gradually taking over, first with TVs. The tech publication Tom’s Guide has a post up with …
Taiwan’s AAEON Touts New Micro PC For “Low-Cost” Applications Like Digital Signage June 19, 2023 by Super User The Taiwan-based single-board computer maker AAEON has announced a teeny new micro PC it says is aimed at low-cost applications like digital signage, but the PICO-EHL1 isn’t all that low-cost. The unit cost for this new PICO-ITX form factor is listed as $250 USD on the AAEON site, while the price for a Raspberry Pi …
InfoComm Day One Impressions: LED Everywhere, WTF Is MLED, And TCL Is Coming June 15, 2023 by Super User Sitting back in my hotel room quite impressed with myself for doing the wise thing, for a change, by getting the hell out of a cocktail party that had a live band, a very open bar and some old friends who were bent on having as much fun as possible at InfoComm in Orlando. Back …
Spectrio Opens New, Remote Work-Optimized Offices, Design Center And Showrooms in Tampa June 13, 2023 by Super User The digital signage and customer engagement firm Spectrio has officially launched its new Tampa-based customer design center, showroom and head office headquarters – a facility that makes a direct nod to how workplaces are changing. Spectrio, which owns and publishes Sixteen:Nine, says the building in the Pinecrest West Park neighborhood of Tampa has product showrooms and …
Cooler Screens Suing Whale Customer Walgreens For $200M Over Halted Rollout June 9, 2023 by Super User The company that has been building out a retail media network based around “smart” transparent LCD chiller doors in major chains is now involved in a $200 million lawsuit against a whale account, drug chain giant Walgreens. Cooler Screens has filed an action in an Illinois state court, alleging Walgreens reneged on a rollout agreement …
Miami Start-up Smart Matter Launches AI Assistants For Digital Signage June 8, 2023 by Super User There’s a LOT of talk in the digital signage, DOOH and pro AV ecosystems about integrating AI into many aspects of day-to-day workflows, and just like all kinds of specialized smartphone apps and desktop extensions have popped up with AI toolsets, the same will likely happen with these sectors. Coming on the scene, starting today, …
Epson Touts New Short-Throw Projector That Can Blast 160 Visuals From Inches Away June 8, 2023 by Super User I’d need to be much more of a projection nerd to appreciate most of what Epson is touting as its must-see products for its presence next week at InfoComm in Orlando, but there was one new advance I can easily get my head around – a short-throw projector that can blast a 160-inch diagonal image …
Firefly Gets Beyond Pure DOOH Ad Sales; Enters Joint Venture Providing Tech To Abu Dhabi Media Firm June 7, 2023 by Super User Anyone who has run a digital OOH ad network has learned, sometimes the hard way, that it looks easier than it is to make an business viable – even more so when the technology set-up is expensive and technically challenging. So it is intriguing to see the Silicon Valley star-up Firefly, which puts digital displays …
BrightSign Partners With Chinese Display Giant TCL On New Variant Of Smart Commercial Displays June 7, 2023 by Super User Integrators and solutions providers who use a lot of BrightSign boxes to drive displays will soon have an option for a series of “smart” displays that have built-in BrightSign media player boards – a move that in theory makes these embedded displays an alternative to the smart displays made by numerous commercial screen manufacturers. The …
