Toledo Wealth Mgmt Firm Lines Walls Of Meeting Space With LCD, LED To Create In-House Lab July 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a very ambitious and involved lab inside the offices of a wealth management firm in Ohio – with market indicators, charting, TV and social media feeds lining the walls of what appears to be a converted conference room. It’s in the suburban Toledo offices of Venture Visionary Partners and is intended, according to …
Hisense Expands B2B Pro Display Product Line With New All-In-One LED Units July 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hisense is a reasonably well-known consumer electronics brands in North America and Europe, but it is nowhere near as known in B2B circles – even though the company has had a digital signage product line available for five years. Now the B2B side of the Chinese electronics firm has pushed into direct view LED, starting …
COS Apparel Stores Boosting Shopper Experience With Smart Mirrors July 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes Retailer H&M is testing smart mirror technology in US COS stores (a sub-brand for apparel) as a way of driving the shopper experience. The mirrors are interactive LCDs that can recognize products brought into a room via RFID and allow customers to request different items (like same blouse, smaller size or different color) and have …
Increasing Use Of MiniLED For TVs Has Spinoff Effect For Fine Pitch LED Video Walls: Research July 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes The research firm Omdia says the increasing use of miniLED backlights in higher quality consumer TVs is having the spinoff effect on the commercial LED display business – driving the production of increasingly fine pixel pitches for video walls. The TV industry has been increasingly using miniLEDs for backlighting in LCD TVs because that technology …
Why A Static OOH Media Firm Finally Caught The Digital Ferry, With Outdoor Solution Group’s Rosemary Valenti July 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes New York City is a massive out of home media environment, but much of the attention gets directed to the giant LED boards in Times Square, when there all kinds of other interesting and high opportunity environments that also generate a LOT of eyeballs … like the ferries across the Hudson River. Outdoor Solutions Group …
Google’s Product Lead On ChromeOS To Do DSE Keynote In November July 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes Google’s lead on the ChromeOS file for digital signage and kiosks, among a pile of use-cases, has been announced as a keynote speaker for the Digital Signage Experience (DSE) trade show and conference set for mid-November in Las Vegas. Naveen Viswanatha, head of product management for ChromeOS, will do a talk Nov. 19 titled: Redefine …
That Was No Hologram, That Was An LED Video Wall Inside A Gold Coach July 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes There was lots of buzz and no end of erroneous descriptions about the virtual appearance of the Queen Elizabeth II, rolling along a parade during Platinum Jubilee events in early June. Footage of the Queen, taken from her coronation day in 1953, was shown in the windows of a 260-year-old gold-clad carriage. Media coverage …
Video Wall Processing Tech Firm Brompton Gets £5.1m Growth Boost July 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes One interesting indicator of the rapid adoption being seen with LED video walls is growth and investments in some of the companies that supply key supporting technology – like video wall processing software and hardware. The UK firm Brompton Technology – which has specialized technology that manages and optimizes visuals to large format screens – …
Broadsign’s Reach Adds Ability For Media Owners From Multiple Supply Platforms To Bid On Ad Buys July 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes Broadsign has introduced an interesting new wrinkle with its Reach programmatic digital out of home platform – code that creates more availability by allowing multiple supply-side ad platforms to bid on ad slots. Broadsign Reach Header Bidder, the company says, “enables media owners to consolidate and manage programmatic bids from multiple third-party supply-side-platforms (SSPs). Rather …
Austria’s C SEED Takes Its Folding Screens Inside, Touting $190K LED TV As Residential Bling July 18, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Austrian company that has marketed for a few years now big displays that unfold by the infinity pools, patios and yacht decks of the super-rich now has a variation on that aimed for inside the home, using microLED. The C SEED N1, says the company, lives in your room as a minimalistic piece of …