Video: How A Dutch Butcher Uses Queue Mgmt Software, Screens To Handle Customers January 27, 2021 by Super User I was on a call yesterday talking about how some of the most interesting work we’ve seen lately in digital signage probably looks pretty boring to people outside the industry – notably the use of queue management software for safer shopping. This is a really good video – albeit Dutch with English subtitles – showing …
LG Video Shows Potential Applications For Its LED Film On Glass January 27, 2021 by Super User This (at end of post) is a very good conceptual video from LG that shows how its transparent LED film could be used in large private and public spaces like shopping malls and airports. There are, unfortunately, more conceptual visuals out there from LG than actual installs, it seems, but they do exist – like …
ACE Roundtable: The Engagement Tech That Worked In 2020, And Should For 2021 January 27, 2021 by Super User The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT This is a special episode of the Sixteen:Nine podcast. Just before Christmas, I moderated an Advocates for Connected Experiences roundtable that tossed around thoughts on what technologies were used to get us all through 2020, focusing on what really worked, and will continue to work into 2021. …
ISE Show Director Blackman Says 4 of 5 Top Vendors Still Set For Early June In-Person Event January 26, 2021 by Super User This a quick but interesting interview with Integrated Systems Europe show director Mike Blackman, where he suggests the intention remains to hold an in-person ISE in Barcelona, come the start of June. Speaking with Florian Rotberg of invidis, Blackman says of the top 100 exhibitor brands that turn up year on year, more than 80% …
Need A Digital Signage Player That Can Swim? January 26, 2021 by Super User Ruggedized, water and weather-proofed enclosures are presumably standard parts of the equipment list for digital signage and digital OOH jobs in outdoor or crazily harsh indoor environments, but I am guessing there are jobs where space is tight and a waterproof PC would be the ideal solution. The Toronto-area industrial PC firm Stealth is marketing …
Netflix Adds Crystal LED Video Wall For Special Screening Room At LA HQ January 26, 2021 by Super User Netflix was one of the first companies to make direct view LED the key visual feature of a headquarters lobby, and now the streaming media giant is using microLED as its primary display in a special screening room. The company, according to Hollywood Reporter, has activated a 17 foot wide by 9 foot high Sony …
Panasonic Bows Out Of InfoComm 2021, Citing Health Safety Concerns January 25, 2021 by Super User It is late January, and InfoComm in June seems like way, way, way off – but exhibitors need to plan their presence well in advance, or with the special circumstances of the moment, decide whether or not to exhibit. In the case of Panasonic, it doesn’t see health safety conditions being at a level that …
STRATACACHE Hopes To Be Producing MicroLEDs Display Chips In US By Q4 2021 January 25, 2021 by Super User More details are starting to emerge about STRATACACHE’s intentions for that microLED production facility the company is spinning up in Eugene, Oregon. The new factory, reports microled-info, will be a complete microLED production line, from epiwafer (on 300 mm silicon wafers), through transfer process and to final module assembly. The company plans to produce a …
DV LED Special Report – January 2021 January 25, 2021 by Super User The Jan. 2021 Direct View LED Special Report by Sixteen:Nine is now available for free download. There are no strings attached. No fee. No registration form. No tracking. Just click on the download link here and you can grab the PDF file, and save to your PC or other device. All I’d like and appreciate …
Patent Office Shoots Down LG’s Plans To Trademark QNED Term For Its New Premium Displays January 22, 2021 by Super User Hat Tip to Bob Raikes, who does the paywalled but valuable What Bob Saw newsletter through Display Daily … The US Patent and Trademark Office has denied an application by LG Electronics to register the the term QNED as a trademark. The patent office said that QNED is an acronym for Quantum Nano-emitting Diode, so it …