Addressable Market For US Restaurant Industry Is Just Over 238,000 Locations: Research May 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Tech vendors often talk about the addressable market size for the business verticals that they’re focused on, so it is likely handy for the many, many companies looking to introduce or expand digital signage and related tech in the restaurant and food services sectors to understand the size of the largest QSR, fast casual and …
Data-Driven Generative Art Used For Canadian Bank’s Video Wall At Busy Transit Hub Branch May 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting use of an LED video wall at the front of a very public bank branch – the TD Canada Trust branch at Toronto’s Union Station, a hub for passenger rail, commuter rail and commuter buses, as well as a main subway stop. The branch has a big 12 foot by 6 …
Owner Foxconn Shutting Down Sharp’s TV Display Business May 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes Japanese electronics giant Sharp announced this week it is getting out of the TV display business, shutting down production lines in Japan and looking at selling businesses. This is televisions, not pro displays, so that does not mean InfoComm is a last stand for Sharp NEC, which markets high-end commercial displays, projectors and other systems. …
SID’s Display Nerd Fest This Week Includes Much Brighter OLEDs, Auto Dashboards As Displays May 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Society for Information Display’s annual Display Week symposium and exhibition is on right now in San Jose – attracting the very technical side of the digital signage and pro AV community, as well as all kinds of engineers working in everything from automobile dashboard designs to military systems. I’ve been to this event, which …
Why And How LED Studio Makes Product And End-User Education Central To Marketing Its Displays May 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes I have invested a lot of time in the last six or seven years trying to educate myself on LED display technology and terminology, but sometimes it feels like I have mountain to climb and I am still at base camp looking for my oxygen bottle stash. Manufacturers and their marketers keep coming up with …
Video: Series Of LED Light Strips Create Illusion Of Full Motion Video Ads In Subway Cars May 14, 2024 by Dave Haynes I was a bit surprised to come across a post this morning about a company pushing the idea of using a series of digital light strips in subway tunnels to create the illusion of full motion ads in the windows of passenger cars. It is an idea and technology that’s been around for perhaps 20 …
Late Night Interactions On Digital Portal Near Dublin’s Pubs Get Predictably Salty May 14, 2024 by Dave Haynes Lotsa buzz happening about a digital portal that links people on the streets of Dublin with people on the streets of New York City. The idea is to connect people from across great distances, and crowds have gathered to wave at each other, play rock paper scissor or do dance-offs. I doubt many people would …
LED Mainstreamed: Almost 4,500 Sq. Ft. Of LED On Parking Garage In Detroit’s Entertainment District May 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes If you needed any more evidence of LED mainstreaming, this is almost 4,500 sq. ft. of LED display on a parking garage in downtown Detroit – an ad board sold by the media company Outfront. If the location seems odd at first glance, the context is the display is just outside the gates of two …
Sphere’s Backers Get Full Ownership Of Key Tech Supplier, Directional Audio Firm HOLOPLOT May 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes One way for a high-profile attraction to deal with other projects “inspired” by the originally is to partially or fully influence or control the businesses of key technology suppliers, especially those supplying somewhat unique solutions. Sphere Entertainment, the company behind that giant, much-Instagram’d LED ball in Las Vegas, has done a deal to realize full …
Broadsign Broadens European Reach With Acquisition Of Dutch DOOH DSP OutMoove May 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes Digital OOH-focused adtech and media software firm Broadsign has expanded and enhanced its footprint in Europe and especially the Netherlands with the acquisition, announced this morning, of the Dutch adtech firm OutMoove. The two companies have always been closely linked, with Amsterdam-based OutMoove’s demand side platform integrated almost since start-up with Montreal-based Broadsign’s Reach Supply-Side …
