Enter The AV Nerd Nonagon On 9/9 August 16, 2016 by Super User This looks and reads like a hardcore pro AV nerdfest – a networking and education event next month in Anaheim with the call to action of traveling to the 9th dimension at the NitWit Nonagon. Ummm … OK??? I asked, and organizer Randy Pagnan of RP Visuals explained that Nit references a common measure of …
STRATACACHE: CEO Riegel Says Scala Deal Not The Last August 16, 2016 by Super User Chris Riegel, the founder, sole owner and CEO of STRATACACHE, kindly took a few minutes Monday to call and brief me on the deal that saw his company acquire controlling interest in software rival Scala. Riegel says his contact with Scala on a potential deal traces back about three years, and was on and off. …
Is The Live TV On Your Digital Signs On Right Side Of Copy Protection Laws? August 15, 2016 by Jami McGraw Guest Post: John Wang, IAdea Is your digital signage network on the right side of copy protection laws? HDCP is a digital copy protection technology that is used widely by content providers. Subscription-based live video feeds received with set-top boxes are often encoded with and protected by HDCP, the acronym for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection. Playing such content …
STRATACACHE Buys Majority Control of CMS Software Rival Scala August 15, 2016 by Super User STRATACACHE has bought its way into “super-majority” control of digital signage CMS software rival Scala, in a deal being announced today. The deal gets STRATACACHE CEO and sole owner Chris Riegel access to a global channel partner program and reseller network, which Philly-based Scala had built up in the last 15-20 years. The deal is not …
WordPress Gets A Digital Signage Plug-in August 12, 2016 by Super User A small German company has launched a WordPress plug-in that enables the hugely popular blog and website content management system to be used as a digital signage CMS. Ondamedia GmbH says its plugin, called Digitalsignagepress, makes developing and managing small signage networks easy and capable of running off any HTML5-based device, like system on chip smart …
What The Digital Signage Industry Can Learn From Apple TV August 12, 2016 by Alan Brawn Guest Post: Mark Hemphill, ScreenScape Savvy communicators could be increasing revenues by building dynamic media channels into every one of their business locations via digital signage, but a lot of them are held back by the cost and complexity associated with that technology. It’s still too expensive and complicated for the average business owner to want to take on. Or …
Projects: 280 Foot Wide LED Wall Lights Up In World Trade Center’s New Mall August 11, 2016 by Super User The retail component of the new World Trade Center in New York finally, formally, opens next week, and the 16 acre site will include some 5,000 square feet of LED. The signature installation is a 280-foot wide 4mm pixel pitch LED wall running along a concourse, driven by 12 sync’d HD outputs from players that …
Density Debuts New Way To Count, Report And Display Crowds And Lines August 10, 2016 by Super User There’s a podcast episode up today about Density, a San Francisco start-up that has launched a new type of people-counting sensor I think has some interesting potential for the digital signage market. Density was launched by Apple alums and former founders of Y Combinator. Their product is touted as a simple sensor-as-a-service that uses infrared beams to …
Digital Signage Goes To The Kitchen August 10, 2016 by Super User One of the guys at Rise Vision is so steeped in the digital signage business he has a slick interactive display up and running in his kitchen. Mat Meiers, the company’s lead creative designer, designed a screen layout to display calendar events, grocery lists, to do lists and family photos in his Kansas City-area kitchen. …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Andrew Farah, Density August 10, 2016 by Super User This week, Sixteen:Nine speaks with Andrew Farah, the CEO and one of the founders of Density, a San Francisco-area start-up that’s going at crowd tracking in a different way. Density puts a small sensor at the doorway or doorways leading into a venue or a targeted area,uses infrared beams to measure anonymous movements as people come and …
