WI School District Uses Digital Signage To Communicate Quickly From K To 12 May 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat tip to a small school and school district in rural Wisconsin for doing a nice job with its in-school digital signage network, on a modest budget and with finite time. The district uses Rise Vision’s CMS – very popular in the education market – and has screens up to communicate with students all the …
Christie Digital Acquires Assets Of Brass Roots Technologies May 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes Christie Digital Systems has acquired the assets of the Texas technology firm Brass Roots Technologies, picking up its IP and talent in the areas of advanced optics and electronics for high-performance display and imaging systems. Employees now work for Christie, but operations will remain in Allen, TX, working under the Christie name. “The purchase of …
Things Getting A Bit Testy As What Worked Or Didn’t At Last Week’s ISE Debated In Social Media May 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes There’s a bit of a scrap online coming out of last week’s Integrated Systems Europe trade show, with questions about exhibitors, press coverage, wayfinding and even the merits of virtual versus printed badges. I wasn’t there, so I don’t have a particularly valid or relevant point of view. I can only relay the discourse. Adrian …
AV Carts Get An Interesting Rethink In Peggy May 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes The core concept of AV carts that could roll a screen around a venue to where it is needed is anything but new. They were around in my schooldays, so shortly after man discovered fire. They’ve evolved through the years, and Samsung upended things a few years ago when it came out with The Flip, …
Austrian Sports Retailer’s Mountain-Themed Flagship Greets Shoppers With Big LCD Video Wall May 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes A periodic reminder, if it is needed, that LCDs are still valid options for video walls when done well in terms of positioning and content choices. This is the flagship store of Sport Bründl retail chain in Kaprun, Austria, a small, stunning resort town surrounded by by the Austrian Alps. The building hints at the …
Pandemic Was, Weirdly, Best Of Times For Display Industry, While Recovery Is Worst Of Times: DSCC May 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes The digital display industry finds itself in this weird circumstance, says supply chain analyst Ross Young, in which the 2020-2021 pandemic period was actually pretty good, and now, as the recovery ramps up and inflation is rising, prices are down and the outlook is shaky. Display Supply Chain Consulting’s Young made that observation in a …
InfoComm Forecasting 20,000 Attendees, 525 Exhibitors For Almost-Back-To-Normal Vegas Show In June May 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes In the wake of last week’s Integrated Systems Europe, the folks at the trade association AVIXA (which co-owns ISE) are now putting the focus on InfoComm, the sister pro AV trade show in Las Vegas. Instead of ISE and InfoComm being a few months apart, they are a few weeks this year – the tight …
SID Says Display Week Saw Attendance Back At Pre-Pandemic Levels May 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes Photo credit: SimBeyond Hardcore pro display people would have been a bit torn last week, having to focus physically or online to what was happening and on show at a pair of industry trade shows and conferences nine time zones apart. While Integrated Systems Europe was on in Barcelona, Spain, the Society for Information Display’s …
PPDS Adds SaaS Remote Device Management Solution, Dubbed Wave, To Philips Pro Display Line-up May 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes PPDS, the sales front end of Philips’ pro display products and solutions, has launched a new cloud platform that builds advanced remote device management capabilities into screens that have embedded smarts. Called Wave, the “highly secure, intuitive and scalable remote device management platform” was developed by Philips/PPDS to help reduce the costs of installation and …
ISE Says 43,691 People Attended Just-Ended Trade Show In Barcelona May 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes The numbers have very quickly come in from Integrated Systems Europe about how attendance went this week. The big pro AV trade show closed a few hours ago in Barcelona. ISE says the total attendee count was 43,691 from 151 countries. Because many attendees go for more than a day, the total count of admissions …
