Cannabis Digital OOH Network Eyechronic Secures $3M Series A Funding For Expansion February 1, 2018 by Super User A digital OOH company focused on the retail cannabis business has closed a $3 million Series A funding round from an investment form that’s also focused on the rapid-growth industry. Eyechronic runs a screen network in some 300 stores across 16 U.S. states where cannabis and sale is now legal in some fashion. Tuatara Capital …
When We Said The LED Display Business Was On Fire In China, This Is Not … January 31, 2018 by Super User Meanwhile, somewhere in China… Building isn’t burning so it appears there’s a bit of an issue with heating on this LED display that fronts a building. Hat Tip Mark Potter of Hydro Media, Auckland, NZ
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jason Barak of D3 On The Rapid Rise And Future Of Fine Pixel Pitch LED January 31, 2018 by Super User 16:9 just released a Special Report called The Total Guide To Fine Pitch LED. It’s a big, 70 page look at the display technology, coming at it from all kinds of angles. The free report (you can download it here) came together, in part, because of sponsors – like the major one, custom LED design …
Big Thanks To The 2018 Digital Signage Awards Judges January 30, 2018 by Super User Twelve judges, under my maniacal chairmanship, scrutinized up to 30 entries each and awarded up to 100 points across six columns to help decide the 2018 Digital Signage Awards Finalists, as well as High Commendations and Category Winners. The winners will all be announced next week at ISE in Amsterdam, at a luncheon. Those folks, …
Video: Interactive Restaurant Table Uses Portable Hologram Projector January 30, 2018 by Super User I spotted this video on Linkedin – a hologram projection thingie touted as being part of the restaurant of the future. It’s interesting, and perhaps one day this sort of thing would get used somewhere, but there are a few things to reasonably note and ask: The video shows the waiter just plopping this puppy …
The Total Guide To Fine Pitch LED: A 16:9 Special Report January 30, 2018 by Super User There’s a lot of buzz in the digital signage industry, as well as the markets the industry serves, about fine pixel pitch LED displays, and their ability to create bright, seamless visuals that transform spaces. It’s easy to find technical documentation about LED displays and diodes, but a lot harder to find solid information, written …
Intersection’s US Digital OOH Network To Run Off BroadSign Control January 30, 2018 by Super User It will be BroadSign Control under the hood, going forward, for the digital poster network run by smart cities-centric media company Intersection. Intersection will use Broadsign’s content management system, Broadsign Control, to schedule and deliver advertising and dynamic HTML5 content to a national national network of Link kiosks, urban digital poster panels, interactive station platform …
BrightSign To Debut New HDR-Ready Players At ISE January 29, 2018 by Super User New version releases of signage gear don’t tend to get me too excited, but given the volume and breadth of BrightSign’s player business – and the number of software companies now integrating to their little purple boxes – it’s worth noting that a set of new units will have their debut next week at ISE. …
Video: ComQi Puts Retail Tech In Context With Pop-Up Store January 29, 2018 by Super User The digital signage industry has gradually come around to the idea that buyers are less interested in how things work than they are in what the things will do for them. You see that reflected in trade show booths that are increasingly putting the technology in context, like faux retail settings. The next step, logically, …
UK Projector Firm Optoma Adds Fine Pitch LED To Product Lineup January 29, 2018 by Super User The major LCD display companies have pretty much all introduced fine pitch LED products to deal with a shift away from flat panels to LED modules for video walls, and now pure-play projector companies appear to be on the same path. UK-based Optoma is known very much as a projectional technology company, but at ISE …
