InfoComm Crowd Up 4% Over 2011 June 16, 2012 by Super User Estimating crowds is not among my meagre set of skills, so any impression that I had that InfoComm didn’t seem overly busy had to be balanced out by that. Turns out, crowds were in fact up over last year. The just-finished InfoComm 2012 in Las Vegas saw 34,268 attendees, up four percent over a year earlier …
Thomson Reuters Sticks With Wireless Ronin, But Changes Business Model June 15, 2012 by Super User It looks like Wireless Ronin is hanging on to (despite chatter to the contrary) and transitioning its relationship with information giant Thomson Reuters from a product called Infopoint -which has been around for several years – to something called Thomson Reuters Knowledge Direct Digital Signage, or TRKDDS for short (I’m kidding). The Infopoint system was a …
Photo: W3C Web-based Signage Event in Japan June 15, 2012 by Super User This is the angry mob that met this week in Japan to talk about standards for web-based digital signage. John Wang of IAdea attended and is probably in this crowd somewhere. He wrote up a preview and will hopefully send along his impressions as the event concludes.
NEC Wins Big Display Deal For New Vegas Airport Terminal June 15, 2012 by Super User NEC announced a nice order this week for 900 displays for the new Terminal 3 at Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport, which opens in a couple of weeks. The new terminal (yay, freaking yay … the old terminal I always end up in is just, well, old) will have 182 46-inch and 723 40-inch LCDs to be …
Samsung Turns On Curious New Square LCDs June 15, 2012 by Super User Samsung’s gigantor booth at InfoComm included a section devoted to a new product with the silky smooth product marketing title of UD22B – Square Type Super-Narrow Bezel Display . Rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? We’d be happy to give Samsung some advice, but our last contact with them was a lengthy call with their people trying …
Christie Publishes The Book Of Shapes June 15, 2012 by Super User Christie Digital Systems was quietly handing out copies of a glossy coffee table-style book, called The Book Of Shapes, to key clients and resellers at InfoComm this week. The book features scores of projects around the globe that use Christie’s MicroTiles display blocks, in everything from museums and retailers to many, many broadcast sets. I …
InfoComm 2012 Notes And Impressions June 15, 2012 by Super User I banged out these notes while somewhere over Nebraska, heading back after a pretty quick tour through the InfoComm show floor. Ideally, two days is enough time, but I only had one free day to run around. Overall, floor traffic did not seem as heavy as past years, but who knows if my read is …
IAdea Debuts Signboard Kits For Digital Signage June 13, 2012 by Super User You may notice an IAdea banner ad at the top of the page this morning. The company is one of a couple of firms coming on as advertisers this week. I am at InfoComm and stealing some Starbucks wifi before I go to the show, and will have a look at what IAdea has there. …
InfoComm12: DisplaySearch Conference Notes June 12, 2012 by Super User No WiFi, sigh, at the Display Search conference that runs as part of the lead-up to InfoComm here in the blast furnace that is Las Vegas in June. That’s about my only whine, however. Good event. Not clogged with people, but maybe 100 or so and similar to last year. But the speakers were generally …
Sightings: Austrian Sports Retailer Thinks Outside Box For Video Walls June 11, 2012 by Super User We seem to be seeing more and more pro AV people thinking beyond the rectangle these days when it comes to video walls in retail and public spaces. Consider this sports retailer in Austria, which is profiled in a BrightSign news release today: Intersport Eybl, Austria’s foremost retailer of sports equipment and sportswear has chosen …
