DSE 2015 Award Winners List March 14, 2015 by Super User Here’s all the winners from the Digital Signage Expo install and creative awards held Thursday in Las Vegas … In the Apex install awards, there were about 80 entrants and 60 in content (which I think is kind of feeble on the part of integrators and other vendors – awards are great marketing tools, so …
DSE 2015 Day Two Impressions March 14, 2015 by Super User Back at home and already missing the big blue skies and shirt sleeves weather of LA and Las Vegas. Sigh. Day 2 at Digital Signage Expo was still bat outta hell mode for me, running around looking at stuff and steering clients here and there to see things and meet people. So as usual, I got …
DSE2015: Sharp’s Wraparound LCD Display March 12, 2015 by Super User This is just a concept, and may or may not ever be a full product from Sharp, but it IS very nice. It’s a convex LCD with interior direct light inside a column to illuminate the LCD. The application would be columns in retail or public spaces, replacing printed graphics or flexible LED displays that …
DSE2015: LED Walls Are Now A Thing March 12, 2015 by Super User Tight pixel pitch LED video walls, built for indoor use, have been showing up at trade shows like the big sign and broadcast shows for at least a couple of years. But Nanolumens has for several years been the only well-known company showing indoor product. That’s changing. Last month at ISE in Europe Samsung showed …
DSE: Day I – General Impressions March 12, 2015 by Super User Daylight is breaking here and it’s Day 2 of the trade show hall at Digital Signage Expo. This is the day I run around and really see stuff,I hope. Day 1 was meetings and catching up with people. The place looked busy – certainly not jammed, but busy. Exhibitors I asked said they thought traffic …
DSE2015: Google Shows Its Digital Signage Offer March 12, 2015 by Super User The big buzz out of DSE 2015 was, not surprisingly, the substantial presence of online giant Google – which had a 40 by 40 foot booth attracting large crowds on the first of two trade show hall days. I didn’t get over there until late morning, and quickly saw the area was somewhat swarmed by …
VIA, Capital Networks Launch SMB Digital Signage Bundle March 11, 2015 by Super User VIA Technologies, Inc and Capital Networks have been working together for a couple of years now, based around using VIA’s very nice, commercial-grade (read: not dodgy consumer crap) Android media players. Now they’ve deepened the ties with the launch of the VIA ALTA Portal digital signage system for small business owners. The bundled set-up combines the VIA ALTA …
Christie Rolling Out Media Network To 200 US Movieplexes This Year March 11, 2015 by Super User I realized Christie was getting serious about creating a media wing to its business when I ran into Alan High – who ran ClearChannel Outdoor – walking around an event with Christie on his badge. The company is known for its display technologies, but has done the acquisitions (like Arsenal) and hires (like respected media …
Biggest, Best Preset Mixer Yet March 11, 2015 by Super User We had about 340 people out last night to the 6th annual Preset Group DSE Mixer at the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas. That’s the biggest crowd ever. We had people hanging out in the lobby, ahead of the event. And we had people who stuck around well after. We had start-ups. We had …
Monster Media Taking Aerva To Court In Patent Dispute March 10, 2015 by Super User Monster Media has filed a claim against the Boston-based software firm Aerva, in the New York Southern District Court, alleging willful patent infringement. Monster is asserting a patent for retrieving and then displaying social media content on screens. The patent was acquired by Monster when it acquired Locamoda. My guess is this is not the last …
