Brussels Airport Transitions FIDS Video Walls From LCD To Fine Pitch LED July 14, 2023 by Super User It was always just going to be a matter of time when fine pitch LED costs would reduce to a point that they would fully supplant LCD-based video walls, and we appear to be there even with pedestrian use-cases like FIDS displays at airports. The airport in Brussels, Belgium has flight information (FIDS) videowalls that …
Sixteen:Nine Industry Mixers Coming Together Nicely For DSE 2023 And ISE 2024 July 13, 2023 by Super User Somewhat remarkably, I have my act together and am already well along in planning the next couple of Sixteen:Nine digital signage industry networking mixers. Sponsorships are already fully allocated for the Dec. 3 mixer in Las Vegas, aligned with Digital Signage Experience. Sorry if you wanted to sponsor and didn’t get pitched, but past sponsors …
Screenverse Boost Audience Measurement Via New Place Exchange Partnership July 13, 2023 by Super User The DOOH ad sales and management firm Screenverse has launched a partnership that incorporates Place Exchange’s PerView audience measurement solution across the screen networks it manages. With PerView, says PR, “Screenverse receives comprehensive impression, reach, and frequency measurement across their different DOOH networks, which can be broken out by different geographies, consumer segments, and timeframes. …
Dutch Start-Up Mashes Up Large Format E-Paper Displays And Newspaper Front Pages As Functional Art July 13, 2023 by Super User As spotted in TechCrunch … E Ink displays have been touted as replacements for a lot of different monochrome and basic color print products, like transit schedules and posters. But now there’s a company selling a 32-inch e-paper display that shows the front pages of newspapers. My first 20 years of working were at daily …
DSSE: Major Display Vendors Relate Shifts On Software, Manufacturing July 13, 2023 by Super User Last week’s excellent Digital Signage Summit Europe in Munich presented a problem of having to decide between which of two concurrent sessions to sit in on, and I missed what looks – in hindsight – like a good one on the display market. Fortunately, Sixteen:Nine’s content partners at invidis – which also presents the DSSE conference …
Nanolumens Develops Pre-Kitted LED Display Solutions Aimed At Mass Transport Environments July 12, 2023 by Super User Atlanta LED display manufacturer Nanolumens has taken the interesting step of developing a series of pre-kitted display solutions for the airport and transportation hubs that are delivering a lot of business for them, operating with the idea of removing complexity both in selling and deploying. The move is in line with a much broader trend …
No NUCs: Intel Getting Out Of Direct Manufacturing Of Mini PCs July 12, 2023 by Super User Intel has been notifying its ecosystem partners that it is backing out of direct investment its small form factor Next Unit of Computing (NUC) business, sunset-ing its own product line but encouraging partners to keep working with the reference designs. So specialty computing vendors in the digital signage and pro AV sectors that have their …
Here’s A Chiller Fridge Media Solution That Does The Job But Doesn’t Bust Budgets July 12, 2023 by Super User Here’s a very different, and probably way less costly and involved demo of going at the idea of adding digital signage to chiller fridges. While companies like Cooler Screens have gone down the path of retrofitting the heavy, expensive and custom-sized chiller doors in high foot traffic retail (and run into a big problem), Fargo, …
Philly’s Airport Rolling Out TSA Wait Time Screens Across Terminals July 12, 2023 by Super User Flashy, big dollar video walls and experiential installations at renovated airports tend to get the attention of industry writers and observers, and that makes sense, but there is a whole subset of very pedestrian – even boring – deployments that are just as important to making passenger experiences enjoyable. Like TSA screening status boards at …
Hastings Stepping Back From CEO Role At BrightSign; But Only To Work Instead As Its CTO July 11, 2023 by Super User Jeff Hastings is stepping back from his longtime role as CEO of the media player firm BrightSign, but sticking with the company as co-CEO through 2023 and then CTO in the new year. His co-pilot will be Steve Durkee, who if I have the right guy from LinkedIn has been with manufacturer Legrand I AV …
