Bluefin Further Broadens Platform Support For Its All-In-One Flat Panels With SpinetiX Partnership March 18, 2025 by Dave Haynes Atlanta specialty display firm Bluefin continues to broaden its range of supported platforms, with news its retail-centric all-in-one displays now support via Intel hardware the media playout software and custom operating system of Switzerland’s SpinetiX. Bluefin displays with SpinetiX enabled, says a web announcement, combine powerful display technology with a robust, user-friendly signage platform. Featuring …
AVIXA Puts Out Five Top Pro AV Considerations For Dealing With Tariff Turmoil March 18, 2025 by Dave Haynes The pro AV trade association AVIXA – which owns and runs the InfoComm trade shows and co-owns ISE – has a market intelligence unit that produces both free and AVIXA member-based material that looks at the state of the industry and key issues like trade. So as you might expect, the market intelligence team has …
Here’s A 31-inch Color E-Paper Display Running Full Motion Video March 18, 2025 by Dave Haynes One of the well-established and oft-stated limitations of e-paper displays is how they only really support static images and cannot do motion graphics and video that look anything like what’s possible with more conventional display tech, most notably LCDs. But here’s a trade show demo of a Shenzhen embedded computing company running smooth-looking video on …
Alastair Taft Of Tasmania’s Luna Screens Explains His Approach To Really Simple Digital Signage Software March 17, 2025 by Dave Haynes The work on the big Future Displays report and then ISE kind of threw me off my weekly podcast routine, but we’re back now – with a couple of interviews recorded, and more that are scheduled. First up is Alastair Taft, a software developer based in Hobart, Tasmania – which for the map-impaired is a …
Digital Signage Summit Europe Adds Third Day For May 2025 Edition In Munich March 17, 2025 by Dave Haynes My friends at the German consulting, events and publishing firm invidis have started marketing the 2025 edition of Digital Signage Summit Europe, the flagship version of the series of DSS events it does though each year, usually tied to large regional trade shows. This one is a full conference and micro trade show, and will for …
Toon Army: London Office Tower Projection-Mapped Ahead Of Big UK Football Cup Final March 17, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is an impressive bit of projection mapping on a big public edifice – the Millbank Tower office building on the north bank of the Thames in Central London. The show was run this weekend ahead of the final of the Carabao Cup – one of the two big cup competitions in English football (soccer). …
Health Tech Company Adopts Hollywood Sci-Fi Look For Display-Filled Welcome Center March 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes The very ambitious new headquarters of the Draper, Utah health tech firm LifeWave has a welcome center reminiscent of the set of a sci-fi movie and has what is described as the largest deployment to date of the super-skinny, architecture-focused Ventana LED display tiles. It also uses Sony OLEDs and LG Transparent OLEDs, as well …
LED Mainstreamed: A Squircle Of LED Displays Creates Animated Halo For Coastal Spain Shoe Store March 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes I don’t think it’s necessary to reinforce anymore that LED displays are now a mainstream pro AV option, as it is pretty much everywhere. But it is endlessly interesting to see how big ideas for this display tech get adopted for much less ambitious use-cases – like a halo display in a shopping mall shoe …
Compact Pro AV Computing: Velasea Introduces Slim Server with Massive Video Output March 13, 2025 by Dave Haynes Specialty PC manufacturer Velasea has come out with a dual-GPU 1U servers particularly well-suited for big video walls – with the skinny 1U Plus unit capable of support up to 8 4K video out signals. The products are geared to use cases like indoor or outdoor video walls for experience or advertising, command and control …
DISPLAX Grows Its Support For PCAP Touchscreens All The Way To 135-inch Displays March 13, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Portuguese tech firm DISPLAX has focused on PCAP touchscreens for large format displays since 2011, but they’ve really now run with the idea of large format, with support for flat responsive touch panels as large as 135 inches diagonal. PCAP, if you don’t have much reason to know your way around touch technology, is …
