Projects: New Sports Experts Store Goes Big On Video December 10, 2014 by Super User Sports Experts is a mid-sized sporting goods chain with 71 stores throughout Canada, including a new one in Ottawa (Bayshore Shopping Centre) that makes big use of in-store digital. Montreal-area solutions provider Groupe Viva put together a digital program for the store that includes: a six-screen digital mosaic window to capture the attention of passersby; large-format portrait …
Paper Madness In The Land Of Flat Panels December 10, 2014 by Super User One of my lingering impression of spending time last week in Seoul was how technologically advanced it was in so any ways, and how backward mobile retailing was in the land of Samsung and LG. This is a VERY typical Korean mobile carrier store. I don’t know enough about how things work over there, but …
Userful Launches Product that Delivers And Runs Ultra HD Video Walls Over Local Networks December 9, 2014 by Super User Last week a Calgary, Alberta company called Userful, unfamiliar to me, put out a press release about launching a world’s first 4K video wall product. Well, I thought, I’m, not sure how doing 4K is all that new in terms of resolution or running it off a network. There are some pretty good companies out …
Planar Now Shipping Monster 98-inch Multi-Touch 4K Panel December 9, 2014 by Super User This is a seriously big, crisp touchscreen … Beaverton, Oregon-based Planar has started shipping its UltraRes 98” Touch – which makes multi-touch available on a native 4K Ultra HD screen. It has 32 simultaneous touch points, and is designed for a collaborative applications like meeting rooms, training facilities and command and control centers. It would also do well for interactive …
Projects: Light Up House For Holidays With LCD Panels And Raspberry Pis December 9, 2014 by Super User This exists. The CEO of a company built on moving a lot new and surplus LCD panels is tinkering around with hanging a row of Sharp 6.5-inch LCDs off the rain gutters of his Southern California house, the content driven by Raspberry Pis at each panel, and another Pi functioning as the server. Randy Schafer, …
Projects: Auckland’s Airport Switches On Digital OOH Network December 9, 2014 by Super User The down under media company APN Outdoor has turned on a new digital OOH network of screens in the Auckland, New Zealand airport – landscape, portrait, speciality video wall and 4K screens all aimed at the 15 million travelers who fly in and out of there annually. The 72 displays in the network are all running …
BroadSign Hails London Taxi Deal December 8, 2014 by Super User BroadSign has announced it waved frantically from the burb and got Metropolis Digital Media Ltd to pull over and pick up the company’s software for a media network running on London’s licensed black taxis. The deal involves 500 taxi-toppers to start, and will scale up from there. The set-up is a pair of 1920 x 440 LCD panels …
Projects: Boston University’s Video Promo Wall For Research Projects December 8, 2014 by Super User This is a nice project involving a 10ft wide by 6ft high collaboration video wall designed to drive student engagement and facilitate hands-on learning at the College of Engineering at Boston University. The wall uses Prysm’s laser phosphor display tiles, and is running content that bridges science and art, as developed by a Boston content …
DSE Goes On Road To Brazil December 8, 2014 by Super User Exponation, the company that has for years run the Digital Signage Expo trade show, has struck an agreement that will see a version of the event in Brazil this July. DSE South America is a joint venture with with South American trade show producer BTS Informa, and will be lo-located with something called SERIGRAFIA SIGN …
How Banks Can Differentiate Digital Signage Vendors December 8, 2014 by MarkJanke Guest Post: Tim Pritzker, JohnRyan Bank marketers have been sitting through what has to be the longest parade in history – the endless march into their meeting rooms of digital signage solutions providers. The parade’s been going on for more a decade, and shows no real sign of ending. For every company that drifts off …
