Mvix, BrightSign Pair On Worry-Free Signature Care Program For Large Digital Signage Networks September 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes The DC-area digital signage software firm Mvix has partnered with BrightSign on a new program designed to take any hardware worries off the table in planning large, long-term networks. The new Signature Care program provides a lot of hand-holding through deployment, ongoing priority support, and built-in hardware refreshes after three years. Targeted at enterprise-scale deployments, …
Projection-Mapping Drives Storytelling Inside Cavernous Niagara Falls Power Plant September 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes Anyone who has been to see Niagara Falls will know how powerful the Niagara River is as its waters spill over the escarpment and run out to Lake Ontario, but a percentage of that water is diverted above the falls into pipes that lead to giant turbines in downstream power generating stations. That’s been done …
LG’s Transparent OLEDs Being Used, Somewhat Curiously, In Seoul Parking Garage Windows September 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes In a use-case that has probably never crossed the minds of most digital signage people, the operators of an underground parking lot in Seoul are using transparent OLEDs in the windows of the entryways. LG Display in South Korea announced it is supplying 55-inch OLEDs for interior use by the parking lot of Kakao T …
Samsung Partners With Israeli Start-up Niio On Subscription Art For B2B Digital Displays September 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes Samsung has partnered with a Tel Aviv startup called Niio to address one of the evergreen issues confronting many end-users who make investments in digital signage displays – feeding the content beast. In the case of Niio, it’s premium, curated digital artwork that end-users would subscribe to in the pretty the much way as they …
Amazon Starts Marketing Its Own Branded Line Of “Smart TVs” With Fire TV Built-In September 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes Acknowledging the many, oft-discussed reasons why people putting in digital signage networks DON”T want to use TVs and DO want to use commercial displays, a new product announcement from Amazon is nonetheless interesting because the online retailing Godzilla has introduced a line of TVs that have the media player built-in. So you can buy a …
The Sixteen:Nine Mixer At InfoComm Is Unfortunately Now A No-Go September 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes When I was speaking with my friends at AVIXA several months ago, the prospects for a digital signage mixer tied in with InfoComm this fall seemed entirely solid. It would pull together the digital signage crowd at what is an event with many different interests and crowds, and would deliver much needed networking for people …
Broadsign Broadens Audience Measurement Toolkit, Support Via Computer Vision Integration With Sightcorp September 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes Montreal-based CMS software firm Broadsign and the Dutch computer vision firm Sightcorp have completed an integration that sees anonymous facial analysis solution tied in with Broadsign’s Control CMS and Reach supply-side-platform (SSP). Via the latest integrations, says PR, DOOH media owners can easily provide media buyers with more meaningful audience insights and data visualizations based …
Now There’s Buzz About Another CGI’d Store Facade … But This One COULD Be Done September 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes Oh geez … there’s another digital concept of a New York City retail store floating around social circles and being touted as real, when it’s just CGI. There’s been a huge amount of activity for a Zara store in SoHo that seemingly had an insane abstract digital store entry, prompting people to talk about it …
AVIXA CEO Labuskes: InfoComm Going Ahead In October Unless Local Restrictions Block It September 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes AVIXA CEO David Labuskes said barring government intervention – like local or county shutdowns – the InfoComm trade show his organization puts on is going ahead in late October, in Orlando, FL. “We believe that holding this event is the right thing to do,” he said, talking today on a YouTube livestream with AVNation’s Tim …
LED Display Sales Coming Back; 2021 Global Sales Forecast To Hit $6.5B: Futuresource September 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes Photo: Allsee Technologies Another research firm has pushed out data suggesting that while the worldwide LED industry took a big sales hit as the pandemic took hold in 2020, sales are bouncing back in a big way in 2021. “Although global sales fell by 12% last year, the market performed better than the expectations of …
