Day 1 At DSE 2014 February 13, 2014 by Super User Out the door at 8 AM, back in the hotel room at 12:30 AM. No time to write. Booked all day. Maybe will be posting from the plane Friday. Generally, quite busy. Everything busy, brighter, thinner, easier, etc, etc. Very little you would look at and think, That’s different or amazing or whatever. Lots of …
Great Night At The Annual Preset Group Mixer February 12, 2014 by Super User Another Preset Mixer is in the can and the reviews last night were all good. We had 317 registered and 311 showed up. Now, there were a bunch of no-shows but there were, in turn, dozens of people who just kinda showed up. That could have been a problem because we were understanding the …
BroadSign Plugs Digital OOH Clients Into Vistar’s Programmatic Buying Platform February 12, 2014 by Super User BroadSign has launched a new product called BroadSign Connect that ‘s effectively a direct connector with Vistar Media’s programmatic media buying solution. Digital OOH networks running on BroadSign’s ad-centric platform can now opt-in and allow unsold ad inventory to be bought by planners via the Vistar, which has in the past year gained a lot of …
Shuttle Joins The Digital Signage ARM Race February 11, 2014 by Super User Longtime small PC maker Shuttle Computer Group, based in City of Industry, California, is launching a line of ARM-based, full HD digital media players this week at DSE. “Whether you’re looking for a straightforward ARM-based player or the most sophisticated system for complicated video wall installations, Shuttle has the answer for all applications,” says Marty Lash, …
PQ Labs Touts New Quad-Core Android Digital Signage “Stick” February 11, 2014 by Super User San Jose-based PQ Labs has announced a new Android HDMI stick it touts as the most powerful on the market. I’m not sure if it really is, or not, but it certainly has some power under the hood. The iStick A300 is a 1.6 GHz quad-core and can take a solid state hard drive as …
Monster Media’s New Patent May Cramp Social Media Style Of Many SW Vendors February 10, 2014 by Super User Most of the chatter in the last 2-3 years about digital signage has been about the so-called trolls out there that are mostly or entirely in the business of filing legal actions and generating revenues from pre-court settlements. But not all the disputes and IP issues involve trolls. A company that’s been part of the …
Experiential Can’t Be Just A Buzzword: Denys Lavigne February 6, 2014 by Super User High-impact digital visual projects in corporate and public venues are quickly growing commonplace, but they only truly work when they deliver an experience that respects key parameters, says Denys Lavigne, the President of creative agency Arsenal Media, looking ahead to a couple of speaking gigs at DSE. “Experiential can’t be just a buzzword,” says Lavigne. …
Projects: 800 Screens, 220 Content Channels, One SportChek Flagship Store February 6, 2014 by Super User The Canadian sporting goods retailer Sport Chek has opened an 80,000 sq. ft. store in the monster West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta that has a somewhat staggering 250 PCs driving 470 screens, plus a bunch of tablets and projections. The store has: 800 screens populated by 220 channels that display product images and deals, store-wide …
Multi-Platform Media Program Drives 109M Tweets, Texts, Shares … In One Day February 6, 2014 by Super User This is pretty impressive in terms of the potential impact of multiple mediums on an awareness and fundraising campaign. The Bell Let’s Talk program that ran last week in Canada – focused on mental health issues – generated 109,451,718 tweets, texts, calls and shares in one day. Repeat: one day. The program included social media incorporated …
Glasses-Free 3D Goes 4K February 6, 2014 by Super User I was wondering if next week’s Digital Signage Expo would have any companies there still trying to get the industry interested in glasses-free 3D – a tech that seems to move people quickly from amazed to ambivalent. Turns out there is, and it’s a bit different. Buffalo-based pro AV distributor Stampede Presentation Products will be …
