Digital Signage Summit Europe Releases First Look At Three-Day Program For Munich April 9, 2025 by Dave Haynes My friends at the German consulting, events and publishing firm invidis have pushed out more details on the 2025 version of the excellent Digital Signage Summit Europe it runs each year in Munich. The event is back at the Hilton Munich Airport from May 21 to 23, 2025 – this year with a full three-day program. …
Megapixel Co-Founder Keith Harrison Has Passed Away April 9, 2025 by Dave Haynes Really unfortunate news out of the Los Angeles area – with word that a much respected LED pioneer has passed away. Keith Harrison was a co-founder and the COO of Megapixel, most known for its video wall processing technology. He was also, with co-founder Jeremey Hochman, behind the development and launch of the super-sleek, architecture-focused …
InfoComm’s New Show Director Jenn Heinold Previews What To See And Expect For June In Orlando April 9, 2025 by Dave Haynes The next plus-sized pro AV trade show on the annual calendar is InfoComm, coming up in mid-June in, yuck, Orlando, Florida. I’m always curious about what will be new and different with the show, and that’s particularly the case in 2025, because there’s a new person running things. Jenn Heinold joined show owner/operator AVIXA late last …
ScreenCloud Launches $65 Hardware Digital Signage Player; Gets New Growth Funding Via Strategic Partner April 9, 2025 by Dave Haynes The UK-based CMS software firm ScreenCloud has developed and started marketing a new in-house hardware media player that goes at the same entry-level business Amazon is now chasing with its $100 Signage Stick. The PIXI has a list price of just $65. It’s a little box that runs Android 14, supports 4K, and has 64 …
E Ink Develops New Large-Format, Color-Rich Marquee Display Tech Focused On Outdoor Use-Cases April 9, 2025 by Dave Haynes E Ink appears to have sorted out a way to address the main criticism – apart from cost – of its push into large form-factor color e-paper displays as replacements for outdoor advertising and promotional printed posters, with new Marquee technology that uses a four color particle system like E Ink’s smaller, indoor-focused Spectra 6 …
New Micro Sensor Gear And API-Backed Platform Offer Fast, Easy And Low-Cost Workplace Occupancy Tool April 9, 2025 by Dave Haynes Back at World HQ and muffler shop after a week and change traveling … hence the minimal pace of posts and near-total Linkedin absence. Clearing emails, I came across this news piece about an LA company with a new micro-sensor for measuring the occupancy of spaces – something that would be relevant to digital signage and …
LED Mainstreamed: Madrid Spin Class Studio Use One Big Video Wall To Drive Cycling Experience April 8, 2025 by Dave Haynes In yet another example of LED being mainstreamed, here’s a fitness facility with a spin bike room that has a very sizeable fine pitch LED video wall – showing a mildly immersive cycling route as video. It is at Abada Club in Madrid, described on Linkedin as “a space where innovation and design merge to …
MoodyCanvas Launches One-Time-Buy Digital Art Library For Video Walls April 7, 2025 by Dave Haynes One of the wake-up calls that integrators and their end-user customers often get is when they plan out a video wall, and then find out how much good creative can cost. Custom work can easily cost five and six figures. In recent years – and particularly with the rise of data visualization tools and generative …
BenQ Beefs Up Its Push On Digital Signage Displays That Are Validated For Pantone Color April 4, 2025 by Dave Haynes Taiwanese display manufacturer BenQ took the interesting step all the way back to 2019 of starting to market a display that was Pantone Validated – meaning it met a standard familiar to the creative and brand communities for color accuracy across print and digital. More than five years on, the company is continuing to make …
Edgefactory Transforms IT Software Firm’s Event From Sales Kickoff To Immersive Experience April 3, 2025 by Dave Haynes While big LED video wall or projection backdrops are now common for business events – particularly those involving tech companies – Quest Software really went to town with its recent NXT 2025 sales kickoff meeting in Boston – hiring on event production company edgefactory to transform a traditional corporate gathering into an immersive, engaging experience. …
