The “Service-First” Approach To Selecting A Digital Signage Platform January 18, 2018 by Super User Guest Post: John Wang, IAdea Digital signage has come a long way from the days of DVD players and USB sticks to a highly-connected platform that enables intelligent applications across every aspect of our lives. As digital signage evolves into a mainstream industry, when selecting a vendor for the playback platform, many system integrators value …
Digital Signage In A Post-Digital Display World January 17, 2018 by Christina Condomaros Guest Post: Ryan Cahoy, Rise Vision This spring, Steven Spielberg will treat audiences to a story millions of readers already know: Ready Player One. The story takes place in a world where people rise and fall in an entirely VR world. It’s a concept that’s becoming more and more of a reality each year. Over …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Sakchin Bessette On How Moment Factory Grew Into One Of World’s Top Multimedia Agencies January 17, 2018 by Super User Fantastic creative is at the heart of any great digital signage project, and when I am asked to rattle off the names of creative shops capable of doing top-level work, Moment Factory is automatically in there. The Montreal-based creative technology group has evolved from a small collective doing VJing and just, basically, have a …
Still Talking Clients Out Of 4K? Good News – 8K’s Coming!!! January 15, 2018 by Super User Hat Tip Display Daily If you are in digital signage and having a swell time explaining to clients why they really, really don’t need 4K when full HD is more than awesome for the task at hand, you will be bouncing in your high chair with word that 8K will start to be a thing …
New Hughes App Puts Digital Signage Platform On LG webOS Smart Displays January 12, 2018 by Super User Hughes Network Systems is the latest company to port its digital signage CMS player software to run on LG webOS system on chip smart displays. The webOS player is compatible with all of the Hughes MediaSignage platform – from corporate comms apps to menu boards. “With this solution, Enterprises of all sizes can easily install our …
This Wild Data Visualization Shows Traffic Flow For Entire U.S., Hour By Hour January 11, 2018 by Super User This is kind of wild – a visualization of traffic flow across the U.S. – hour by hour. Sacramento-based mobility analytics solution provider Citilabs has used billions of data points to measure and then develop a graphic visualization of hour-by-hour origin-destination movements, all streets directional road volumes and traveler demographics based on derived home locations. The …
Outcome Health’s Woes Continue: Big Office Plans Off, Tax Credits Nixed & No More $50K A Month House January 11, 2018 by Super User It has been several weeks since I last did a Google news search on Outcome Health, and much continues to change with the once high-flying Chicago digital OOH media company. In October, news broke that the company – which puts screens and other tech in condition-specific medical clinics – is being sued for fraud by some of …
Vegas Airport Car Rental Shuttles Now Kitted Out With GPS-Enabled Ad Screens Inside January 11, 2018 by Super User It’s kinda hard to get excited about ad screens in shuttle buses, but a new case study out from BrightSign is interesting not so much for the product, but the insight and how this stuff is done in things that are moving, bouncing and bumping, and probably exposed to all kinds of power spikes …
Take A Video Stroll Through LG’s Amazing OLED Canyon At CES January 11, 2018 by Super User Here’s a video and some good pix showing the LG OLED canyon that leads into the company’s mega-booth at CES this week. The OLED Canyon has 90 concave and 156 convex open frame screens. Visitors walk through a 28m long twisting canyon trail and experience images produced by a total of two billion self-emissive OLED …
County Fair Concession Operator Using LED Screens To Sell More Maui Chicken And Pupu Wings January 11, 2018 by Super User Were there any doubts about LED displays coming down in cost to a point that they’ll go from expensive one-offs to commonplace, consider the story of Chicken Charlie’s, a San Diego concession stand that has good-sized, finer pitch LED displays that fire up when it sets up in places like county fairgrounds. The operator worked with New …