Toni Viñals On His How And Why Spain’s Netipbox Technologies Spun Out Nsign.TV As Its Own Digital Signage Platform December 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Spanish-based solutions provider and integrator Netipbox Technologies has been providing AV and IT-driven digital signage solutions in that region, and across southern Europe, for more than a decade. In recent years, the company has rounded out its offer by developing and marketing its own software solution. That platform got to a level of maturity …
First Arriving’s Digital Dashboard Displays Add Real-Time Dispatch Info To Content Options December 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes I’ve noted in recent weeks my enthusiasm for the absolute focus a small tech company called First Arriving has placed on its narrowly defined but big vertical market – digital dashboards on displays in police, fire and paramedics stations. The company – based in Richmond, VA – has developed and announced a new data integration …
Pix: Check Out A Photo Gallery From Last Week’s DSF Mixer In Atlanta December 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes You may vaguely remember a time in the distant past when industry people got together for events, clinked glasses and made up stories that confused or alarmed lurking competitors. They’ve been coming back, at least in some circles and places. The Digital Signage Federation had its first full-scale Meet and Mingle event last week in …
Have A Virtual Look Around Skykit’s Sleek, Minimalist Twin Cities Digs December 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes The CMS software firm Skykit spun out from its cloud software parent Agosto back in March 2020, and the team now has its own sleek, minimalist office digs in Minneapolis – nice enough to attract a feature on a site called OfficeLovin’. “The new Skykit office space is a retreat; a place to focus, reboot …
ISE Announces Plans For Digital Signage Boulevard; Releases Details On Annual Digital Signage Summit December 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe has dubbed the digital signage and DOOH technology area at its new exhibit hall home in Barcelona the Digital Signage Boulevard. Making its debut in Hall 6 at ISE 2022, says ISE in an email blast, “this multi-application show floor feature will bring together and present a selection of the world’s leading …
Velocity Marks Halfway Point In 4,000 Screen Rollout On Redbox DVD Rental Units December 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes Probably like many to most people, I kind of assumed the DVD and gaming rental business was largely a thing of the past, and people just streamed movies and downloaded games. But a company called Redbox has some 4,000 vending machine stations across the U.S. – half now that have digital signage screens that promote …
Toronto Mega-Mall Uses PORTL’s Hologram-ish Displays To Run Virtual Fashion Shows Through Holiday Season December 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes (Image: Dustin Fuhs) An “activation” that’s somewhere between interesting and gimmick-y used one of PORTL’s transparent LCD set-ups to do a virtualized fashion show at one of Canada’s biggest shopping malls, starting this week and running through the holiday season. The retail property owner Cadillac Fairview has one of the shower-stall like set-ups in the …
VESA Standards People Open-Source Some 28,000 High-Rez Image And Video Files For Display R&D Work December 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip Display Daily for finding this … The Video Electronics Standards Association – aka VESA- has taken the interesting step of making more than 28,000 high-resolution, high dynamic range (HDR) image and video content files available for unrestricted public use and free to download. The move is positioned as a way of getting much …
Hershey School Use Large-Scale Projections, Interactive Displays To Tell Story In Its Founders Hall December 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes I did not know that buying Hershey’s chocolate products helps fund a boarding school in Pennsylvania that provides a high-level but free education to 1,000s of kids from working-class, lower-income families. The Milton Hershey School, named after the famous chocolatier, has been providing free education to primary through high school kids for more than a …
Questex Partners With SEGD, OAAA And DPAA For Rebooted DSE’s Conference Efforts December 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes The company putting together a reboot of DSE – with the tweaked title of Digital Signage Experience – has added partnerships with three industry associations that are directly and indirectly tied into the digital signage marketplace as end-users. Questex has announced the advertising-focused DPAA (ad networks) and OAAA (billboards), and design-centric SEGD have all signed …
