NEC Unveils Android-Based Smart Digital Signage Panel, Using OPS Spec January 28, 2014 by Dave Haynes NEC Display Solutions just got into the smart digital sign contest, but in a very different way. Whereas companies like Samsung and LG are effectively extending variants of their Smart TV development and hardware into commercial displays, NEC is using the Open Pluggable Spec (OPS) to allow an open-source Android player box to be snapped …
Navori Adds New Android Digital Signage Player To Product Line January 28, 2014 by Dave Haynes The Swiss software firm Navori, which has been developing in the digital signage space for more than a decade, has updated the Android offer it first introduced around this time last year. The QL StiX 3400 is an Android player that’s about the size of a deck of playing cards, but has the bits inside …
Projects: MtoGo C-Stores In UK January 28, 2014 by Dave Haynes The Merseyrail system that serves Liverpool in England also, interestingly, runs a chain of convenience stores linked to some of the stations. The MtoGo shops have Dynamax-powered systems that run ticket promotions, shop offers and general information aimed at passengers. The set-up is a pair of back to back 32″ Samsungs, one facing the underground entry at …
TargetR Issues Major Upgrade On Android Digital Signage Platform January 28, 2014 by Dave Haynes The UK-based software firm TargetR is introducing a major upgrade to its digital signage content management platform – putting server-level logic and s\ome pretty impressive capabilities into low-cost Android-based playback devices. TargetR Display Stacks for Android, says a release, is a self-contained digital signage solution incorporating peer to peer communications, touch screen interactivity, face detection …
Mixer Sponsor Profile: Chief January 27, 2014 by Dave Haynes Chief is a returning sponsor the annual Preset Group Mixer, and will be bringing a pile of people to the event ahead of DSE 2014. Here’s a quick Q&A with Laurie Englert, VP Marketing for the Twin Cities-area company. Q: What’s new for this year? Englert: This year will be a big one for Installers! …
Exterity, Cilutions Create New Streaming Digital Signage Offer January 27, 2014 by Dave Haynes I don’t see that much IPTV stuff being marketed in the digital signage space, even though it looks like a pretty nice fit in cases where streaming video is already something a business does and digital signage is just a bolt-on. Here’s a Scottish company that’s been doing IPTV for a long time, and has …
Mixer Sponsor Profile: Freshwater Digital Media Partners January 25, 2014 by Dave Haynes The Preset Group Mixer at DSE has grown into a pretty ambitious undertaking, that takes a lot of time and money to pull together. It doesn’t happen without sponsors and one of the ways we try to say thanks and recognize the help is through sponsor profiles on this blog. First up is a new …
What Are You Doing About Moore’s Law? January 25, 2014 by SteveSchildwachter I’ve been going over my end-of-year financials, and looking back over the three years since I bought my company, Unified Brand. Running the numbers made me realize that none of the four main things I buy and then re-sell all the time in digital signage – media players, software, licenses and content – have gone …
The Preset Mixer Mix January 24, 2014 by Dave Haynes Here’s a different look at the mix of mixer attendees for the Preset Group event at DSE in a couple of weeks. First, when registering I asked what people do and they selected from a drop-down … Second, I did a sort of titles … this graphic represents about half the total but shows the …
RMG Networks Says Reality Is They’re Not Going Virtual January 23, 2014 by Dave Haynes So I’m sitting at the bait shop counter going through Twitter this afternoon, and up pops a Tweet that says “RMG Networks to Launch ‘RMG 3D-VR” at ISE 2014.” The linked story goes on to somewhat breathlessly say RMG will be showing a new solution with a “headset containing a screen, optics and sensors which allow …
