PRI Index Suggests Optimism For Sector Starting To Sag June 21, 2012 by Super User The Chicago-based Platt Retail Institute has released the Q2 2012 edition of the PRI-DSF North American Digital Signage Index, which pretty much mirrors the US economy – flat but hopeful. The PRI-DSF North American Digital Signage Index covering Q1 2012 shows a downward trend, says PRI director Steven Platt, though participants continue to have a …
Video: Digital Signage At Rave Cinemas June 21, 2012 by Super User [vimeo id=”43676549″ width=”610″ height=”343″] Following on the MGM Resorts video that explores the digital signage efforts on those properties, here’s the second piece my friends at Studio 10 did on Rave Cinemas, working with Real Digital Media and Christie’s managed serrvices team. This was shot at a Rave movieplex just off Las Vegas Blvd, south …
THIS Is How You Do A Case Study In Digital Signage June 20, 2012 by Super User [vimeo id=”42742334″ width=”610″ height=”260″] This is a video business, so it’s kinda weird how rare it is to see videos done about projects. The video you are going to get off a smartphone or pocket camera will be marginal in quality because of shaky hands and limited mikes, but at least it will start to …
Astral Media Launches Digital Column Network in Downtown Montreal June 20, 2012 by Super User Astral Media’s OOH business unit has started rolling out a series of 30 “Digital Columns” around downtown Montreal this summer, either knowing something or being utterly oblivious to the university student protesters who have been clogging city streets for weeks on end, protesting tuition fee hikes. The vast majority of students have been well-behaved, but …
Behold The Fountain Of Content June 19, 2012 by Super User The pix I took of the Arsenal Media booth at InfoComm last week were, well, crap and didn’t do much to give some sense of what they did. But Wendy from Arsenal sent me this great shot taken, I assume, from atop the nearby Christie booth. It is projection mapping on the cube at the …
Capital Formally Launches Android Product Bundle June 19, 2012 by Super User Capital Networks was showing at DSE an Android-based media player for digital signage, and saying it would be out by late spring. Well, it’s late spring and it’s now out. The Audience for Android media player and software bundle is a mash-up that takes much of the capability of Capital’s product and gets it running …
The Touch-y Subject Of Touch Tech For Digital Signage June 19, 2012 by Super User One of the more interesting sessions I took in at last week’s DisplaySearch conference – ahead of InfoComm – was on emerging interactive technologies. Speaking pretty much faster than I can think, Jennifer Colegrove of DisplaySearch spoke about where the touch industry is at and put up a few slides that nicely reflected why it …
DSE Posts On-Floor Interview Series June 19, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”jR4q_qqX5L4″ width=”600″ height=”350″] If you have wobbled around Digital Signage Expo you’ve likely noticed at the entry gateway a booth run by the show producers that includes a micro TV studio where a steady stream of people sit for quick interviews on who they are and what they do. The interviews are done by …
Freudenberg Leaves Adcentricity June 19, 2012 by Super User Laurie Freudenberg has left the new Adcentricity, about three months after the firm was acquired by Bee Media. As some of you may know, Adcentricity, the company where I’ve hung my hat for the past five years and grew with my two partners, was acquired at the end of March,” writes in an email to …
Backdrop For New Surf Musical In Vegas One BIG Video Wall June 19, 2012 by Super User I’m sure this has been done to some degree before, but video walls on a theatrical set make a bunch of sense now that the costs have dropped and the seams nartrowed to a point that they’re somewhat irrelevant. When Sharp’s senior VP Mike Marusic spoke at the DisplaySearch conference in Las Vegas last week, he mentioned …
