Sixteen:Nine 2022 DSE Mixer Registration Now Open September 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Sixteen:Nine DSE Mixer is back, and registration is now open here: https://sixteenninemixer2022.eventbrite.ca As always, registration is free and gets Digital Signage Experience attendees access to the oldest and best-known networking event in digital signage. It also gets attendees two drinks and finger food – all covered by the event’s terrific sponsors. The event is …
Vast Shanghai Stadium Builds Motion LED Into Seating Bowl Canopy September 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes Giant LED displays at new or upgraded sports and entertainment stadiums have grown increasingly column, with the most noteworthy examples to date the halos suspended over the playing surfaces in Atlanta and at LA’s SoFi Stadium. But I haven’t seen a stadium done with LED the way it’s been applied at the renovated 80,000-set Shanghai …
New Split-Flap TV Platform Emulates Electromechanical Mass Transport Displays, Without The Moving Parts September 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes I’ve always loved spinning and chattering split-flap and flip-disc mechanical display boards, but probably like other people with operations in their backgrounds, tempered that affection with wariness about ALL the moving parts that could stick or fail. I’ve seen some creative templates that borrow the look of these displays, but now a Belgian company has …
Mvix Brings On Chief Growth Officer; Says Sales Revenue Up Almost 72% In Past Two Years September 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes CMS software firm Mvix has pushed out news of a new senior hire, but what was more interesting to me was the description of the CMS software company’s growth in the last couple of years – with sales revenue up nearly 72% and the head count almost doubled. Based in the Washington, DC-area, Mvix has …
Growth In Public Display Market Flat In Q2; Chinese Lockdowns Affected Demand: Omdia September 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes Research and market analysis firm Omdia says growth in the public display market was just about flat in the 2nd quarter of this year, recording QoQ growth of just 1.1%. The firm suggests strict COVID lockdown restrictions in China affected the demand for public display products in several sectors, including transportation, retail, and manufacturing. IFP …
Ori Mor Of Wi Charge Explains How Digital Signage Displays Can Now Be Powered Wirelessly September 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes Anyone who has been on the ops or finance side of digital signage and digital out of home knows how complicated and expensive it can be to realize the simple task of getting power to a screen. It’s a particular challenge in settlings like retail – because store designers, until recently, didn’t think much about …
This Clever Creative Makes The Corner Of A Dallas Office Block Come Alive September 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes One of the great visual tricks that LED is particularly useful for is picking up the characteristics and look of the immediate surroundings, and then creating surprises by transforming into something entirely different. The first time I saw this was inside, years ago, at the Comcast head office tower lobby in Philadelphia. The whole back …
Proto Secures U.S. Patent For Its Method Of Doing Hologram-ish Displays September 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes The LA start-up Proto now has a U.S. patent for its method of capturing people and subjects on a white screen and relaying that visual in real-time to a custom transparent LCD screen and enclosure, creating what I tend to describe as a hologram-ish visual experience. The company, which has evolved its brand from PORTL, …
Spanish Apparel Retailer Lefties Opens Digital-Filled Store Of Future In Barcelona September 12, 2022 by Dave Haynes Details are hard to find, but this is the newly-opened “store of the future” from an apparel brand called Lefties – at a mall in Barcelona. Lefties os part of the giant Inditex retail group and I think it is positioned as an outlet store for fast fashion giant Zara. The store has one hell …
Shipping Container Costs Have Dropped 50%-60% From COVID-era Peak September 12, 2022 by Dave Haynes I don’t write much about shipping container costs because I know very little about that whole thing, but I do know those costs skyrocketed through the pandemic, and that affected prices for large items like displays. Which brings me to the good news, I think, that costs are dropping in a big way. A publication …
