Marketing: AOPEN Launches Product With Great Explainer Video August 13, 2015 by Super User I think AOPEN may have some challenges with the price-points for its new commercial Chromebox and Chromebase – they’re priced accordingly, but the market mostly equates Chromebox to sub-$200 devices. However, the Taiwan company does a very nice job with this explainer video showing the products, features and benefits and applicability. People who do mass deployments …
Ontario Lottery Uses Live Digital Signs For $1M Casino Draw August 13, 2015 by Super User Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation has for many years had a dedicated digital signage team – both tech and creative – running its screen networks across 19 slots and casino sites across the province. The team work with its longtime software vendor Capital Networks on a very different, very clever twist to casino messaging – …
Planar Acquired By Chinese LED Firm Leyard August 13, 2015 by Super User The blending of LED and display technologies and companies continues. Specialty, high-end display panel maker Planar Systems has been acquired by the Chinese high-end indoor LED firm Leyard Optoelectronic Co., Ltd. The companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement, that would see a U.S. affiliate of Leyard acquire all of the common stock of Planar …
Turn TVs Into Interactive Signs For $200 With New Gadget August 12, 2015 by Super User The same crowd that is endlessly looking to cut display hardware, playback hardware and software costs out of digital signage projects will likely be intrigued as heck by a new IndieGogo project that turns any TV with an HDMI connector into a touch and stylus controlled display. Called Touchjet Wave, it’s a device that clamps on …
DPAA Announces 2015 Video Everywhere Speaker Line-Up August 12, 2015 by Super User The Digital Place-Based Advertising Association, aka the DPAA, has announced its speakers and agenda for the the annual Video Everywhere conference in New York, this year on Nov. 3rd. Confirmed presenters include: Benjamin Jankowski, global media, MasterCard Scott Halderman, director, digital & integrated media solutions, teas & flavors, Pepsi Beverages North America Liz Dinnsen, executive director of …
Scala Boosts Speed, Performance In New Release August 12, 2015 by Super User Scala has issued a major version release of its Scala Enterprise digital signage platform, saying Release 11 adds a pile of speed and performance enhancements. In all, the company based outside Philadelphia says the new release has 25 new features and 265 enhancements. Nerd alert: the rest of this from the release will make all but propeller-heads …
Cash-Strapped CRI Somehow Does Deal To Acquire Deployer ConeXus World August 12, 2015 by Super User If I wandered into work at ConeXus World this morning, and a colleague let me know the company just got acquired by Creative Realities, I’d probably head for whatever local bar was open that early, to order a very stiff drink. And it wouldn’t be a celebratory drink, since everything my new masters touch seems to …
Amscreen Sells Media Business To The Media Business It Bought August 12, 2015 by Super User The UK digital signage firm Amscreen has decided to formally sell off its media division to its longtime media sales partner DigiCom, so that Amscreen can focus on software and hardware. DigiCom Out of Home takes ownership of the media sales and marketing activities for some 3,500 UK digital roadside and healthcare networks running with Amscreen’s LCD/LED …
Projects: Singapore Celebrates 50th With Giant Projection-Mapping Show August 11, 2015 by Super User Singapore has turned into the centre of the universe when it comes to projection mapping, with seemingly more of that happening there than in the rest of the world combined. Consider how the nation’s 50th birthday was celebrated yesterday, with mapping done at three locations and using more than 120 of Christie’s projectors. Most of …
Projects: Madame Tussauds Uses Giant LED Wall To Hoover In Times Square Tourists August 11, 2015 by Super User The Madame Tussauds wax museum in New York’s Time Square has put a massive 13 ft by 12 foot LED screen in a glassed part of the facade to pull in tourists passing by on 42nd Street. The LED is a big NanoLumens unit, running content via Scala software based on a concept developed by …
