Business Viability Of LED Display Manufacturer Daktronics A “Going Concern” December 12, 2022 by Dave Haynes One of the most established and successful names in the LED display business is facing serious financial issues, with South Dakota-based Daktronics filing paperwork with the SEC that says its business viability is a going concern. That “going concern” is raised when a company’s continuing ability to keep the lights on and the production line …
Anamorphic Ad Spot At Danish Mall Shows Possibilities And Limitations of 3D Creative December 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a great example of well-executed anamorphic illusion creative that shows what’s possible, but at the same time demonstrates the limitations of these digital illusions. It’s on a big DOOH LED display in the center court of a shopping mall in Copenhagen, Denmark – a spot for a Danish broadcaster’s “popular Christmas calendar ‘Tinka …
Scala’s New V13 Platform Includes Much-Requested Windows 64-Bit Support December 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes The CMS software firm Scala, one of the oldest companies in the industry, has announced a major version release of its flagship platform: Scala Enterprise version 13. The new code rolls in a series of features that resellers and customers were after, notably Windows 64-bit player support. “The motivation behind the content chosen for Scala …
A Giant Immersive Cylindrical LED Video Wall Lights Up At Moroccan University December 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a vast, custom-curved LED video wall in a main auditorium at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (known as UM6P), located near Marrakech, Morocco – billed as the largest immersive video wall in North Africa. It measures 288 feet wide by nine feet high, and has a radius of 313.46 degrees. The display uses Samsung …
Sony Has Developed Its Own Device Management Toolset For Its Smart Pro Displays December 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes Anyone in digital signage or pro AV who has ever had ops in his or her title will know easy and pretty user experiences are nice, but what can really matter in selecting the right software and hardware solution is boring stuff like device management. Some CMS software companies have always had it, while many …
DSE Says November Show Pulled 3,500 Attendees December 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes Questex, the company behind the rebooted DSE, has pushed out a post-show report that suggests about 3,500 people registered and attended the digital signage conference and expo last month in Las Vegas. Digital Signage Experience also pulled what Questex suggests was hundreds of people over from the sister show in another, nearby part of the …
Sharp NEC Adds Public-Ready COB Fine Pitch LEDs To Line-up December 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes Sharp NEC Display Solutions has added a new series a fine-pitch indoor LED displays that make an important nod to challenges of very large, very expensive video walls around people and their things. The new NEC FC Series uses Chip On Board, also called flip chip, LED technology that offers greater anti-collision, anti-electrostatic, anti-water drop, …
Blending LED Walls Into Public Spaces With Intentional Content Design December 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes GUEST POST: JAKE BERG, RENDER IMPACT What first comes to mind when you think of an LED screen? Is it a simple digital sign used to convey an advertising message, or is it a completely customizable blank canvas with endless opportunities to create remarkable viewing experiences? Hopefully the latter, as LED experiences have evolved significantly, …
Brian Nutt Explains How Adificial Automates Creative Production, Potentially For Pennies Per Ad Spot December 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes There have been a few companies that have come along in recent years offering a platform that used templates, image library and stored data to largely automate the production of videos – but few if any of them had their heads wrapped around how that might work with and for digital signage networks. A Louisville, …
Famed Man City Football Club Adding AI Crowd Intelligence Tech To Boost Gameday Experiences December 6, 2022 by Dave Haynes A technology partnership with Cisco appears to be paying off for Detroit-based computer vision firm WaitTime, which will see its real-time crowd intelligence platform installed and activated at one of the higher profile venues in global football: Etihad Stadium, home of the Premier League club Manchester City. The agreement to use the WaitTime technology, says …
