Industry Networking Events Ramping Back Up For Fall: Here Are Two Upcoming Mixers … August 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes Networking events are ramping up this fall in the U.S., as summer vacations end, kids head back to school and industry people get their heads fully back into growing their businesses. There are at least a couple of them coming up: The DSF is back doing Mix and Mingle networking and learning events that it …
Portugal’s SC Braga Upgrades To Big New Hisense LED Display At Its Rock Quarry Grounds August 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes What’s described by the vendor as the largest LED display at a European football stadium is in the process of going up (and appears ready) at the fantastic home grounds of the Portuguese club SC Braga – who play at a stadium built into an old rock quarry. The stadium in Braga, north of Porto, …
OAAA Writes In “Human Approval” For Digital OOH Ads To Reduce Risk Of “Problematic Content” August 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes This may hit industry veterans as a forehead-slappingly obvious thing to do, but the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) has written in the human approval of ads before they go up on screens as a best practice in an amended version of its Digital Billboard Security Guidelines. Those guidelines now include a …
New Cosm LED-Driven Shared Reality Venues Put Sports Fans In Primo Virtual Seats At Live Games August 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes Immersive is one of the more abused and misapplied pro AV terms out there, but a fast-growing entertainment company in LA is opening up what it calls shared reality venues that look very much like they genuinely immerse customers in viewing experiences – whether that’s live sports or custom-shot and edited films. The first location …
Chick-fil-A Opens Atlanta-Area Drive-Thru-Only Store With No Pre-Sell Or Menu Displays August 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes It’s a bit premature to see a newly-opened Chick-fil-A drive-thru restaurant as a worrying trend, but a new two-story, four-lane operation that’s opened in the general orbit of Atlanta is certainly noteworthy for the near or total absence of the promo and drive-thru menu displays that are typical in the North American fast food business. …
Pro AV Sector Growing Globally At 6.1%, With The Entertainment And Experience Sector Having The Biggest Impact August 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes Revenue in the Pro AV sector is seeing a healthy 6.1% growth rate in 2024, though it is down just a tad from 2023 numbers, according to AVIXA’s 2024 Industry Outlook and Trends Analysis (IOTA). Revenue is forecasted to be $325 billion in 2024, up from grow from $306.4 billion in 2023, when revenues were …
A Mind-Wobbling 3,357 FIDS Screens Being Upgraded At Istanbul’s Mega-Airport August 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes A staggering 3,357 55-inch LCD flight information displays are being deployed around Istanbul’s huge international airport over the next three years, evidently replacing what went in when the airport was built and then opened almost six years ago. It is more of an upgrade than a swap, with Vestel replacing the screens it put in …
German Pro Basketball Club Makes Its Home Court A Giant Dynamic LED Video Floor August 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes Sports playing surfaces that are made of laminated glass and animated by LEDs have been demonstrated at special events all the way up to the skills challenges during the NBA’s all-star weekend, but never used as a permanent playing surface for professional leagues … until now. Sixteen:Nine’s German content partners at invidis have a post …
If Only Every Digital Signage Hack Put Fluffy Cat Animations On The Compromised Screens … August 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes When a digital sign gets compromised – whether that’s a flat panel in a venue or a big LED display in a public setting – it usually involves something naughty, awful or embarrassing. Cat animations aren’t typically what appear, but that’s what happened recently on several billboards used by the Oregon Lottery. At least seven …
Test Demos Moving Digital Signage Content To Remote Displays Using Broadcast TV Tech August 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes Mobile broadband advances and cell tower build-outs have meant deploying connected digital signage and DOOH networks is far less complicated and expensive than it was 10 and 20 years ago, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still efforts to further lower the complications and costs, and try different ways to move content files out to …
