Niko Sagiadinos Of SMILControl On Why And How SMIL Fits In Digital Signage December 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes Going back roughly a decade, there were a couple of digital signage vendors talking up and marketing their capabilities for a technology called SMIL. That’s short for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, but you probably knew that. OK, probably not. It’s a bit like HTML, in that it is a programming language developed and supported by the same global …
LG Canada Plans Dec. 8-9 Showcase And Conference For Downtown Toronto November 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Canadian wing of LG’s commercial display and signage business has organized a showcase and conference for two days in downtown Toronto early next week. The event will be at the Rec Room, a big dining and entertainment complex in the shadow of the Rogers Centre (where the Blue Jays play) and not terribly far …
Citizen Watch Uses Transparent OLED To Create AR-ish Product Display In Macy’s November 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes Citizen Watch, which makes guess what, has set up a dedicated store-within-a-store merchandising area in the timepiece section of the flagship Macy’s store in NYC, doing what it suggests is “one of the world’s first consumer-facing augmented reality product display cases.” The area has several displays, including a 3 by 1 flat panel video wall. …
Chinese Mall Uses Transparent LED Light Rings As Atrium Canopy November 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s a very different, interesting take on the idea of LED canopy ceilings in places like malls and public buildings – a series of suspended circles that are animated by transparent LED. It is a mall somewhere in Asia, and uses the transparent LED mesh product from NEXNOVO. The mall atrium has a series of …
Mancunians In Snit Over Temporary Hoardings For DOOH Sidewalk Displays November 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian Hat Tip to Paul Fleuranges for noting this … At least some of the residents of Manchester, England are in a serious snit over the presence of a series of temporary enclosures on the sidewalks of major thoroughfares – put there as hoardings for sidewalk street furniture posters that are being …
Adidas First Terrex Flagship Store For Europe Appears To Go Big With LED Canopies November 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes I could be corrected, but looking at these photos and thinking about what seems to happen with sports retailer flagship stores, it appears the first Adidas Terrex flagship store for Europe uses a lot of LED video wall to drive the shopper experience. The store opened last week in central Munich. Terrex sells products related …
Meeting Room Entry Gets Serious Upgrade With Transparent OLED Sliding Doors November 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s a real world – albeit as real world as deep-pocketed Dubai can be – of a venue using sliding glass entry doors embedded with transparent OLED displays. This is the entrance to a meeting room at an office somewhere in Dubai, using the door-slider mechanisms of a company called ASSA ABLOY, which has a …
Finnish Volvo Dealers Make Digital Signage Central To Marketing, Built Into Furnishings November 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes We had an unfortunate twilight run-in wth a deer on the highway – wife Joy fine, deer not – so we’ve been in a few new car showrooms lately, anticipating the call from the shop saying the car’s a write-off. So I have seen how some local dealers are building digital signage into their environments. …
Dec. 2nd Telelogos Webinar Explores Monetizing Digital Signage Networks Via Advertising November 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes The total advertising spend in the Digital OOH media sector is predicted to nearly double by 2023, which understandably gets a lot pf people using digital signage technologies thinking and talking about what hardware and software to use, and what monetization models genuinely work for different kinds of venues and scenarios. It also opens up …
Deep, Deep Sigh: Telecine Founder James Fine Has Passed Away At 67 November 24, 2021 by Dave Haynes The digital signage industry lost a great person earlier this month – James Fine, the founder and president of Telecine Multimedia in Montreal. He went in for surgery recently, and did not recover from it. He was 67. James was one of the truly nice, giving and smart people in the industry, quietly and steadily …
