Your Baby’s Ugly October 25, 2013 by Dave Haynes Here’s an audio-backed version of the presentation I did at the October 2013 DailyDOOH Digital Signage Investor Conference in NYC. It’s about 25 minutes but moves along nicely. Enjoy (I hope).
Companies Using Video Scribing To Market Their Digital Signage Products October 10, 2013 by Dave Haynes Video scribing is a nice, relatively inexpensive way to get product information and concepts across in a visually interesting, but familiar, way. It’s essentially whiteboard drawings captured and sped up, and given a background narrative audio track. A few companies in this sector are using them to market their products, most recently the software company …
Pioneer Developing Transparent Tech To Make Digital Signage Work On Shop Windows October 9, 2013 by Dave Haynes Japanese electronics firm Pioneer is working on technology – presumably a film overlay – that it suggests dramatically improves the quality of projections in shopfront windows. Pioneer tells Diginfo the brightness and transmittance levels are higher than when using a transparent LCD panels (brightness would not be hard, from what I have seen). The company sees …
Video: The Impending Android Invasion September 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes While BroadSign is unabashedly promoting the features, benefits and comparative benefits of its Android digital signage offer versus the dozens of other ones that have popped up in the last two years, it’s also a really good primer for understanding how the Google mobile operating system applies to this sector. The preferred choice for many …
Full Digital Signage Advice Video Series Now Up August 8, 2013 by Dave Haynes It took me a while but all the Good Advice video pieces shot at the Preset Mixer last March (or was it Feb???) are now up on the Preset Group website. There are 12 videos from video folks, all addressing the simple premise of providing good advice to people new to this industry. Pat and …
Good Advice Series – DMG, LocaModa Added July 18, 2013 by Dave Haynes There are now 10 or so videos up on The Preset Group Good Advice series, the latest some great comments from Tom Percich of DMG and Stephen Randall, or LocaModa. The archive is here: http://presetgroup.com/category/mixer-videos/ I still have 3-4 more to add in the next few days.
Good Advice Series Now Up To Seven; More To Come July 10, 2013 by Dave Haynes There are now seven Good Advice video vignettes up live on the Preset Group website – the latest ones Neil van Wouw from Japan’s Vanten K.K., Jim Nista from Insteo, Jim Vair from Capital Networks and Pierre Richer from NEC Display. Here’s Neil … Niel van Wouw, Vanten KK, @ 2013 Preset Mixer from studio10productions …
Preset Good Advice Series: Manolo Almagro July 5, 2013 by Dave Haynes The third in our video vignette series features Manolo Almagro (known by many simply as Manny) providing some solid advice on who to seek out for advice. Manny works for TPN and is based out of Chicago, and has a long history in and on the edges of this sector.
Preset Good Advice Video Series: Steve Harris of Cineplex July 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes The second Good Advice video is up on the Preset Group site, this one featuring Steve Harris of Cineplex Digital talking about stakeholders in digital signage projects. As mentioned yesterday, this is a running series of videos shot at the Preset Mixer earlier this year, before any of the interview subjects got unruly.
New Preset Video Series Features Advice From Industry Veterans July 3, 2013 by Dave Haynes When we held the Preset Mixer in Las Vegas in March 2013, we had a video crew there shooting the event and hauling some industry friends into an area where lights and cameras were set up. We wanted to do quick interviews, to be edited later, with folks, focusing on providing advice to people just …