ISE Digital Signage Mixer Coming Together December 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes Sponsor commitments went quickly for the networking mixer set for the digital signage community during Integrated Systems Europe, coming up in a few weeks in Barcelona. The event is set for the early evening of Feb. 2nd, at a small, lovely events center on a hill overlooking the city and seafront. Eight companies have stepped …
Minneapolis Airport Adds Four Big LG LED Displays For Messaging, Advertising December 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has lit up a set of four very large direct view LED displays in concourses that are positioned as airport messaging, but will undoubtedly get monetized via advertising. “Digital displays allow us to maximize the use of overhead space at our exit escalators, which was previously used to hang printed messages. …
Those Giant Swinging LED Doors Are Now Installed At Near-Ready Times Square Development (w/video) December 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes That big new LED screen going up in Times Square with an integrated performance stage and swing-in stage doors is getting close to completion, with the doors now installed and working. The performance space is set up 30 feet above street level and will be hidden most of the time in a much larger LED …
Tightrope Media Systems Hits 25 Years In Digital Signage December 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes Happy 25th birthday to the folks at Minneapolis-based Tightrope Media Systems, which first started marketing what it called video billboard software back in 1997. The software is now marketed as Carousel Digital Signage, but the company is still run by founder JJ Parker. Digital signage is still a young industry, but it’s fun and intriguing …
Agenda Set For Digital Signage Summit At ISE December 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes With the DSE reboot now come and gone, and mercifully date-shifted for 2023, attention now turns to trade shows coming up early in the New Year. I get asked a lot if I am going to CES, and my answer is consistently, “Nope.” It’s mainly consumer electronics, not commercial stuff. I went once and determined …
22Miles Adds Space Booking Capabilities To Video Call Giant Zoom’s Workplace App Marketplace December 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes There are a lot of displays in workplace settings that are only used here and there for their primary task – usually presentations and video conference in meeting spaces. So there’s a movement towards multi-purposing these capital investments by doing more with them, including turning the screens into workplace messaging and guidance tools. Software companies …
Why easescreen Has Set Sights On N. America To Grow Digital Signage CMS Business December 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes The roots of Austria’s easescreen are as a AV systems integrator, but when the company looked around in the late 1990s for software to use for jobs that weren’t yet being called digital signage, there weren’t many options. So easescreen wrote its own software, and the company is now, by far, a software company first …
DSE And Sister LDI Show Dates Moved Further Away From F1 Las Vegas Race December 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes Next year’s edition of Digital Signage Experience will now be Dec. 4th and 5th in 2023 – a couple of weeks after the big Formula One auto race takes over the Las Vegas strip and some of the nearby roadways, as opposed to a couple of days before the race, which had been the unplanned …
LED Video Display Market Saw Limited Growth in Q3 2022: Omdia December 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes Omdia researcher Tay Taehoon Kim has pushed out a summary of highlights from his company’s 3rd quarter 2022 analysis of the direct view LED market, suggesting demand is up, but something less than booming. In 3Q22, although the direct-view LED display market grew by 10.7% compared to the previous quarter and 9.8% compared to the …
E Ink Puts Color Screens Into Mass Production December 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes Color e-paper displays have been around for many years now, but adoption has been limited – something that likely owes to their cost and the slow progression of the technology. That may change now that the primary manufacturer of e-paper displays – the US/Taiwan company E Ink – has gone into mass production for color …
