Big Oops: Digital Signage System Replacing Iconic Penn Station Board Goes Down February 17, 2017 by Super User So this is not good. Amtrak cut over its iconic, clicking and clattering old school departure boards at NY Penn Station last fall for a shiny set of new LCD-based information displays, and someone’s content management system. Gothamist is reporting today that the new video walls and related monitors were down for an hour or …
DSE 2017 Booth Previews: LG-MRI February 17, 2017 by Super User DSE BOOTH PREVIEWS LG-MRI DSE Booth Number: 1302 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Big technology reveals that will cause ripples throughout the entire out-of-home advertising industry. What’s your big marketing message to attendees, and what’s it all about? Enterprise display applications require enterprise …
Sony’s Super-Fine LED Wall Product Thought To Cost $75,000 Per Square Metre February 17, 2017 by Super User The display market research consultancy Futuresource has a great report out on ISE, and one of the technologies it explores is Sony’s CLEDIS. I couldn’t get an answer from the Sony guy I spoke with about the super-fine LED display, but Futuresource writes: Although the CLEDIS stand captured considerable attention with its striking colours and …
Photos From The Floor – ISE 2017 February 17, 2017 by Super User I took a pile of photos of things I saw around the show floor last week at ISE in Amsterdam. Posting about everything isn’t feasible, so here’s a bunch of pix with comments.
Die-Cut Specialty LCDs Intriguing, But Use-Case Pretty Elusive February 17, 2017 by Super User I had one of those moments last week at ISE in Amsterdam when you see something, get intrigued by it, and then wonder what the heck its purpose and commercial application might be. There was a Korean company in one of the smaller micro office-like booths in hall 8 that was showing LCDs done in …
E Ink’s 32-inch Color Display Appears To Rival LCD For Color February 16, 2017 by Super User I’ve been paying attention to e-paper for about 15 years now, and thought it was pretty cool about three years ago when E Ink introduced a 32-inch display that supported 4,100 colors. Now look at this thing, which has won a Taiwan Excellence award. The 32” ePaper color display supports 1,000s of color and what look like deep blacks …
DSE 2017 Booth Previews: Breakfast February 16, 2017 by Super User DSE BOOTH PREVIEWS Breakfast DSE Booth Number: FT21 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Our product is nothing like anything else that’s ever been shown at DSE. What’s your big marketing message to attendees, and what’s it all about? We have developed the …
Panasonic To Market Digital Shop Windows That Can Switch Off To Transparent February 16, 2017 by Super User Panasonic’s Japan head office says it will start marketing a new window glass projection solution next month as an alternative to high-bright flat panels and other display technologies. The “high image contrast transparent screen” is a light control film sandwiched between two sheets of glass that can be transparent in an off state, and have a …
Projects: Disney Resort Starts Deploying ChromeOs-Driven Digital Signage Network February 15, 2017 by Super User Deployments with 14 players – not 100s or 1,000s – don’t tend to get a lot of attention here, but it’s a bit different when the brands involved include Mickey Mouse and Google. The Walt Disney Swan and Dolphin Resort in the Orlando area has installed a communications network with two distinct tracks – one talking to …
Data-Driven Digital OOH Campaign Boosts Railway Rider Counts By Warning Of Crappy Weather February 15, 2017 by Super User Here’s a simple but compelling application of data-driven content for digital out of home advertising – digital billboard messages shaped and triggered by weather forecasts and reports. Canada’s passenger rail service Via Rail ran a campaign with integrated messaging across out-of-home, mobile and online that was built around storm messaging. The messaging intensified as a …
