New Bluetooth Spec Gets Location Of Devices Down To The Centimeter January 29, 2019 by Super User Analytics is an increasingly big thing in digital signage these days, and advancements in Bluetooth may have companies that offer shopper and venue intelligence taking another look at it. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) – the trade organization that oversees Bluetooth development – has announced a new direction finding feature that “can understand device …
Pattison Gets Smart With Calgary Transit Line Digital Posters January 29, 2019 by Super User The city of Calgary in western Canada now has smart city-ish digital posters along four new rapid transit bus lines – showing next bus information in rotation with booked advertising. The screens went in on the nickel of the media company PATTISON Outdoor Advertising, with 87 freestanding structures across the three and soon four new …
New Industry Organization For Europe Announces Ties With AVIXA January 29, 2019 by Super User People who pay attention to this sort of thing – who it could be argued have too much time on their hands – had a sense that when the Digital Signage Organisation (DSO) was announced recently to support the industry in Europe, some sort of ties would be developed with AVIXA, the international pro AV organization …
JCDecaux Working With French Telecoms To Add Smart Cities Small Cells To Shelters, Kiosks January 28, 2019 by Super User Traditional digital out of home street furniture units – like transit shelters and free-standing digital kiosks – are increasingly becoming hubs for smart cities, and the biggest outdoor media company on the planet is making is adapting with a new initiative in its home country, France. JCDecaux has announced that it is providing support for …
15 Final Admission Tickets Open Up For Next Week’s 16:9 ISE2019 Mixer January 28, 2019 by Super User Scrubbing the registration list revealed some people registered twice or several times for next week’s 16:9 ISE Mixer in Amsterdam, so that has opened up 15 final tickets for the event. Tickets are free but you have to register via Eventbrite. The registration page is here. You complete the general registration form, not the sponsor …
Sheer Footprint Of Flat Panel Displays Grew More Than 10% In 2018 – IHS Research January 28, 2019 by Super User Global shipments of large LCD panels rose again in 2018, as did the sheer square footage of display footprint, says the research firm IHS Markit. Despite concerns about over-supply in the market, area shipments increased by 10.6 percent to 197.9 million square meters compared to the previous year, driven by TV and monitor panels. Says …
New Cruise Ships To Feature Giant 57-Foot LED Walls Showing Live Video Of Surroundings January 25, 2019 by Super User The Scandinavian cruise line Hurtigruten is building a pair of ships that will feature 57-foot tall LED in a seven-storey atrium area, running live video of the surroundings, as well as pre-planned content triggered by the ship’s location. Hurtigruten is most known for its operations along Norway’s western and northern coast between Bergen and Kirkenes, …
Samsung’s The Wall Back At ISE, And Ready For It’s Close-Up January 25, 2019 by Super User When I first saw Samsung’s micro LED display product – The Wall – a year ago at ISE 2018, viewers were kept at a distance of maybe 10 feet from the physical screen, with the screen set back in a room. I assumed that was to keep all the Pro AV nerds from touching the …
Giant LED Banner Starts Revolving In Famed Kuala Lumpur Mall January 25, 2019 by Super User This is what’s touted to be the world’s largest double-sided LED display, a revolving ad banner in a six-storey shopping mall at the base of the famous Petronas twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The banner is a 4.7mm pixel pitch, 19-foot wide by 33.5-foot high NanoLumens screen that rotates 359 degrees (I’m guessing it rotates …
Watch Video Of LG’s Insane 260-Screen OLED Demo At CES January 24, 2019 by Super User Good … freaking … Lord!!! Here’s a video of the absolutely massive curving OLED video wall that was the unmissable eye candy for LG at its booth earlier this month at CES in Vegas. I have not been briefed on what LG will do at ISE – which is also a monster trade show. In …
