Projects: Check Out This Nice 2 By 5 Elevator Lobby Video Wall at Westgate Las Vegas May 25, 2017 by Super User The Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, what you may know as the old Las Vegas Hilton right next to the convention center, has put some serious money into sprucing the place up, including the digital displays. There are more than 150 digital signage displays on the property, including custom LED screens, 4K video walls, HD …
Marjiuana Dispensaries Pay For Digital Signage Set-Up In One Month Of Upsells May 25, 2017 by Super User Politics and laws are in a bit of “who knows what’s gonna happen next?” state these days in the U.S., but assuming states that decriminalized marijuana are not shut down federally, this is a big growth area for a bunch of industries – including digital signage. You have shops selling a lot of stuff over a …
Digital Signage Ecosystem Seeing Double-Digit Growth: IHS Markit May 24, 2017 by Super User The latest Digital Signage & Professional Displays Market Analysis from IHS Markit – which the company makes available to Digital Signage Federation members – has a bunch of interesting nuggets of information. Among them: “All avenues of the digital signage ecosystem finished 2016 with double-digit increases, with revenues from media and software for networked digital signage …
Use Digital Signage for Employee Recognition May 24, 2017 by Bryan Crotaz Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix Recognition – The “Why” “Good job!” Two little words that can make all the difference to an employee. Employee recognition is one of the hot topics these days in all business sectors, and with good reason. Studies and reports from many different sources show over and over again that people …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: David Mou, Pilot TV May 24, 2017 by Super User I was introduced to Taiwan’s Pilot TV and the company’s product evangelist David Mou by some of the folks who invited me over to Beijing recently for a speech at InfoComm China. Mou wanted to tell me about his company and thought it would make good podcast material. I tried to dodge that, because I’m …
Projects: Hollywood’s Iconic Chinese Theatre Gets Projection-Mapped May 23, 2017 by Super User Movie buffs who find themselves in LA tend to make a pilgrimage to the TCL Chinese Theatre, probably the most iconic moviehouse on the planet. Now, if they go at night, they can see a new projection-mapped show on the facade of what for many years was known as Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. The new show in …
Projects: Mall’s Center Court Tree Gets LCD Display Ornaments May 23, 2017 by Super User Not really sure what I think of this … Certainly gets points for being different. But a bunch of LCDs dangling like Christmas ornaments around a living ficus tree in the middle of a mall, I dunno … This is the set-up, launched I think in 2014, at the Louis Joliet Mall in way suburban Chicago. The tree is surrounded …
Capital Networks Tweaks Management Team As Trainor Eases A Bit More Into Retirement May 23, 2017 by Super User One of the nicest (and funniest) men in digital signage is continuing his slow-motion slide into retirement. The founder of 26-year-old Toronto-based software firm Capital Networks Limited, Bil Trainor, has elevated several members of his management team into executive positions, while staying on as CEO. Effective today, the senior leadership team will now include Jim Vair …
Projects: This Sliding, Morphing LED-LCD Wall Takes Closer Looks At Human Brain May 23, 2017 by Super User This is very impressive – a 20-foot tall direct view LED wall sync’d with seven 72-inch LCD monitors that crawl up and down the wall on side-by-side tracks, showing information about the human brain and the scientists pushing the boundaries of neuroscience research. The monitors, when down at eye-level, are interactive, and when sliding up …
Supreme Court Ruling Expected To Make Life Tougher For Patent Trolls May 23, 2017 by Super User A U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday is expected to increase the degree of difficulty for non-practicing entities – aka patent trolls – to sue technology companies over intellectual property claims. The court ruled unanimously against a three-decade old standard that allowed patent holders to sue companies in pretty much any jurisdiction they chose – with a …
