Samsung Brings Prismview’s LED Sales Into Mother Ship October 1, 2019 by Super User Samsung has rolled the sales and marketing teams of Prismview – the LED company that grew up as Yesco – into its overall display sales team. Utah-based Prismview – which got the new name after it was acquired in 2015 by Samsung – had been operating as a subsidiary until this change, announced today. Prismview …
There Are Even Instructions Available For “Hacking” OOH Media Faces October 1, 2019 by Super User Let’s assume the persons who hacked digital screens in Auckland and Detroit this past weekend, replacing advertising with naughty movies, were more pranksters than serious hackers. But there are also organized efforts out there to “hack” backlit posters on transit shelters and street furniture in major cities like London. It is no great stretch to …
Registration Opens For 2020 Version Of ISE In Amsterdam October 1, 2019 by Super User Registration has opened now for 2020 edition of Integrated Systems Europe, set for the RAI Amsterdam on Feb. 11-14. For the unfamiliar, this is the biggest pro AV show on the planet in terms of attendance counts and sheer footprint. The event venue has numerous inter-connected halls and digital signage vendors fill a big one, …
More Hacked Signs And More Naughty Content – This Time In Detroit September 30, 2019 by Super User A reader pointed out a second digital signage screen hack from this weekend, this one on a digital OOH highway billboard in suburban Detroit. The big digital board was, like one in Auckland, NZ, showing porn video material. The Detroit Free Press reports it happened late Saturday night and the racy material was up for …
Screens Above NZ Shoe Store Hacked To Run Porn Video September 30, 2019 by Super User If the need to lock down a public-facing digital signage display wasn’t obvious already, here’s an example from New Zealand of what happens when operators either don’t, or don’t do it well enough. The New Zealand Herald is reporting that someone – presumably hackers – penetrated the media play-out device that drives content on the …
Germany’s info-beamer Optimizes Digital Signage Software For Raspberry Pi 4 September 30, 2019 by Super User The German company behind the Raspberry Pi-driven digital signage CMS info-beamer has released a new version of the service built around and optimized for the new Raspberry Pi 4. The platform is the world’s first Pi4 OS for digital signage, the company says, with support for HEVC video playback (so it can do 4K) and …
Tying DOOH Screens Together Can Work For Creative, But Not When They’re Too Far Apart September 28, 2019 by Super User Here’s an example of a digital OOH campaign that works, and doesn’t, depending on the set-up. The luxury shoe maker Stuart Weitzman started running a campaign across New York City streets recently to promote a new fall line of boots called the MCKENZEE. I’m not sure what the connection to the boots is, other than …
BenQ Touts New “Pantone Validated” Digital Signage Display Series September 27, 2019 by Super User Commercial display companies are always and understandably looking for ways to differentiate their products from other manufacturers that make, to most eyes, pretty similar-looking versions of the same thing. So it was interesting to read news that Taiwan-based BenQ has announced the launch of what it touts to be the world’s first digital signage display …
Why Awards Matter In This Industry September 27, 2019 by Super User Year after year, I get emails from organizations announcing they were accepting admissions for awards, subsequent emails reminding companies to enter the contest as a deadline approached, and then notes about extended deadlines, hoping more companies will enter. It’s often a struggle to get vendors and solutions providers to take a little time and spend …
Belgium’s PresentationPoint Adds Cloud-based Version Of Digital Signage Software September 27, 2019 by Super User The Belgian company PresentationPoint, which marries PowerPoint-based presentations to a digital signage platform, has released a new cloud-based service called SignageTube. Like the 20-year-old mother ship company, the software lets users design presentations and integrate dynamic data with the hyper-popular Office presentation software, and then have it converted to a signage presentation format. The primary …
