Chris Chinnock On 8K Being A Real Thing, And How Pro AV Gets Ready For It March 17, 2021 by Super User The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT There was a lot of skepticism and debate in the digital signage community when 4K commercial displays started coming on the market, with industry observers openly wondering if visual messaging applications needed that high level of resolution. Several years later, 4K is perhaps not common, but certainly …
Almo Puts Last Week’s E4v Classes And Sessions Online, For On Demand Viewing March 16, 2021 by Super User The big Philly-based pro AV distributor Almo had the early spring version of its E4 Evolution (E4v) educational series last week, and has now put all the material online for a month to access on demand. The E4v Flex Experience is described as a “month-long, on-demand opportunity for integrators, end users and tech managers to access all …
Four Winds Merges With Irish Employee Communications Firm Poppulo March 15, 2021 by Super User Denver-based digital signage CMS firm Four Winds Interactive has merged with a company called Poppulo, which does email and mobile employee communication software. The combination is backed by Vista Equity Partners, the investment firm that had earlier taken a substantial ownership position in FWI. Says the PR: Through this merger, the combined business will serve 6,000+ customers, the …
TouchSource Monetizes Office Tower Directory Screens Via New DOOH Media Network March 15, 2021 by Super User A Denver company that has long focused on providing touch-based directory technologies to commercial property owners and operators has taken the interesting step of rolling up the screens as a DOOH media network. Directory screens in office properties are now part of what has been dubbed the TouchSource Directory Media Network. Says TouchSource in launching …
Breakfast Evolves Mechanical Flip-Disc Signs As Kinetic, AI-Driven Artworks March 15, 2021 by Super User If you have been around the industry for a while and Digital Signage Expo was part of your travels, you may remember 4-5 years ago a Brooklyn studio called Breakfast showing its flip-disc displays off on one side of the exhibit hall floor. The company’s tech is not digital signage as we know it, but …
OnLogic Announces First Raspberry Pi-Based Industrial-Grade PC March 15, 2021 by Super User The Vermont industrial computer maker OnLogic has taken the interesting step of announcing its first Raspberry Pi-based industrial-grade PC, timing it in celebration of Pi Day. The little unit uses the latest CM4 Compute Module and is aimed at applications like factories, warehouses, and a range of IoT applications. The Pi 4 is also being …
SID Display Week Set For May 17-21, All Virtual For 2nd Year March 12, 2021 by Super User The Society for Information Display (SID) has opened registration for its annual Display Week trade show and conference, which will again be all virtual, running May 17-21. The event is an annual gathering of terrifyingly bright engineers and researchers in the information display sector, talking about ideas and advances in area like LED, OLED, Light …
ISE Scales Back From June Main Show To Four Regional Events In Europe That Month March 11, 2021 by Super User Integrated Systems Europe’s 2021 plans for a Barcelona show in June have been officially scaled back to a two-day hybrid event in that city, followed by three more June events in other European cities. Show managers Integrated Systems Events, and its co-owners AVIXA and CEDIA, have jointly announced ISE Live & Online, a series of …
PatientPoint, Outcome Health Merged To Create Huge DOOH Media Network March 10, 2021 by Super User Cincinnati-based PatientPoint has merged with Chicago’s Outcome Health to create PatientPoint Health Technologies, a huge DOOH media network focused on physician-patient environments. The combined company, which primarily does screens in waiting rooms, has a reach of nearly 150,000 unique healthcare providers, and a potential audience of roughly 750 million people annually. “This timely, strategic transaction …
Pro Tip: Secure LED Video Wall To Wall, Floor … Or, Ummm, Something. Or This Happens … March 10, 2021 by Super User This is the broadcast set for ESPN’s football coverage in Colombia, and part of the visual sizzle is an LED video wall. As the brief video in the tweet embedded below shows, it is probably a good idea to affix DV LED walls to the back wall, or if that is not feasible, at least …
