Drink Marketing Effort In UK Tescos Manages To Put A Big Display, In Front Of A Big Display December 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is an in-store interactive marketing campaign that pairs a sampling station with an augmented reality display that makes willing shoppers into one of the two main characters from the new Wicked movies, and the thing that catches my eye most is how this set-up is pretty much blocking out the big, expensive aisle-end display …
Oldie But (Very) Goodie: LCD-Based Video Wall Array At Birmingham, AL Airport December 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes Just about everything covered here involves new or updated technology and new deployments, but here is something that’s been in place for more than a decade but remains noteworthy. It is a mosaic LCD video array at Birmingham Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama, described as using depictions of movement, migration and marching from different eras …
Munich-Based Insurer Uses Big LCDs Instead Of Fine-Pitch LED To Bling Up Its Lobby November 29, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting example of a corporate client, space designer and integrator collectively opting for very large LCD over fine pitch LED to create a big digital presence in a company’s main reception area. It is the lobby of the Munich headquarters of the insurance firm WWK Versicherung, and uses four 98-inch Sony Bravia 4K …
Transparent LCD Adds Virtual Information Kiosk At Riyadh’s Airport November 28, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s one of those transparent LCD virtual presence set-ups being used at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s big airport, promoting Virgin Connect eSims and answering questions, using AI. It hits me as very expensive overkill, given what it does, but it does offer bling and buzz in a part of the world that especially likes its bling …
Icelandic Software Firm Launches “Hardware-Free” Digital Signage Solution November 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes An Icelandic software services company called Dacoda has wrapped up two years of development work and launched a new SaaS digital signage product that borrows on streaming TV technology – with a service that runs purely off a connected smart display’s browser. Called Signital – and I haven’t sorted our how to pronounce that … …
Video: Here’s A Volumetric Display That’s Much Closer To The Pop Culture Idea Of Holograms November 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes I natter away here when specialty display companies call their transparent LD or OLED screens, Pepper’s Ghost projections or spinning LED light thingies holograms, explaining that they’re not, because while the outputs may appear to float in a space, those visuals are two-dimensional and don’t have depth or dimension. Here, though, is a genuine 3D …
Scala Opens First Of What It Says Will Be Several Satellite Showrooms Across Europe November 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes There’s nothing unusual about digital signage CMS software companies having showrooms, but they’re almost always located somewhere in the head office building. The CMS software firm Scala does that, with a showroom space in its European head office in the Netherlands, but now it is also opening showrooms in regional locations – the first one …
Betting Shop Chain Switches In-Store Digital Signage Set-Up To Amino’s Streaming Solution November 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes Paddy Power, the well-known retail betting shop chain in the UK and Ireland, has taken the interesting step of cutting over from a traditional servers and end-point PCs set-up for its in-store digital signage network to one using streaming media players. UK-based Amino’s H200 4K media players are now being used in more than 500 …
PPDS Gets A Deployment Of Its Lovely, Pricey E Ink Tableaux Screens … But Just Four Units November 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes Color e-paper is great tech, but prices likely have to come down by at least half – or more – before the industry is likely to see broad adoption. A good case in point is an announcement from PPDS (aka Philips) announcing a deployment of its E Ink-based Philips Tableaux displays at a historic restaurant and …
Trump Plans To Impose New Tariffs On Imported Electronics Could Chill US Pro AV Sector November 26, 2024 by Florian Rotberg Guest post: Florian Rotberg, Invidis Despite the current USMCA free trade agreement that Donald Trump signed with Canada and Mexico during his first term in office, the president-elect plans to impose new tariffs of 25 percent on all imports from Mexico and Canada, and an additional 10 percent on all imports from China. The newly-announced …
