DSE Moves Site … Now At Other End Of LVCC April 18, 2012 by Super User The floor plan for the 2013 version of Digital Signage Expo suggests the show has changed halls. The traditional location over by the food court and Starbuck’s in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center has been replaced by a new location in the South Hall. Officially, South Hall 1. If you are like …
Sightings: Office Lobby Network In UK Re-brands April 18, 2012 by Super User I got into the still strange world of digital signage and digital OOH almost exactly 13 years ago, finding myself wearing a hard hat and riding on top of an elevator up a skyscraper in Calgary. I was putting screens in elevators, and part of the deal was figuring out how to get the signal …
Does Dolby’s New Overlay Finally Make Glasses-free 3D Viable? April 18, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”Gkybyqrc4B4″ width=”600″ height=”350″] A news release last week from Dolby and Philips sent me on a mini-rant about PR that is full of grandiosity and devoid of substance. It was announcing new glasses-free 3D tech to be shown at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas this week, and there are now …
Please Don’t Steal Me! April 18, 2012 by Super User This could be dropped in the clever, weird or impractical bucket, or all three. Delphi Display Systems has introduced a “Digital Sidewalk SignBoard” that sticks a daylight readable display into an old school cafe chalkboard you parked outside of pubs and restaurants. The idea is you get the advantage of digital but the quaintness of …
Pitch In: Relay For Life April 18, 2012 by Super User Tom McGowan of Four Winds Interactive sent a note around last night asking for a little profile for something his daughter, Heather Torgersen, is doing – raising money for cancer research. If you were at The Preset Group DSE Mixer this year, you saw three women handling check-in and throwing out the unruly. That was …
Tech: How To Get A Dead Rapper For Your Next Concert April 16, 2012 by Super User There’s lot of buzz today in tech blogs about the virtual appearance of long-dead rapper Tupac Shakur at the Coachella music festival in California this weekend. Most of the buzz is about the ethics of having a dead guy perform at a live show (at least he wouldn’t have had a ridiculous dressing room rider …
DPAA Adds Board Spots For Vendors April 16, 2012 by Super User The Digital Place-based Advertising Association (DPAA) has amended its bylaws and will now allow suppliers to serve on its board of directors alongside network operators, with as many as four new seats at the big boy table opened up to suppliers. This would theoretically allow deep-pocketed research firms like Nielsen to get involved at a board level, …
Company Q&A: Silver Curve’s Bryan Crotaz April 16, 2012 by Super User A note came in from the UK technology consultancy Silver Curve about a new hire. Given I’m not sure that many people on this side of the pond know much about the company, I asked Managing Director Bryan Crotaz if he’d do a quick interview with me to lay out some background on the firm. …
New Titanic Belfast Centre Makes Heavy Use Of Projection Tech April 13, 2012 by Super User The £97 million visitor attraction Titanic Belfast is now open in Northern Ireland, telling the story of the Titanic’s construction in Belfast and its maiden voyage 100 years ago. The morning show Canada AM has a crew there, and were showing some of the visuals at the museum, which seems to talk on both the …
Dolby, Philips Announce New Glasses-Free 3D Format (But That’s It) April 12, 2012 by Super User I have read this release a few times and now marvel at how the PR managed to generate so much nothing. The nut of it is that the two companies, which both have a lot of experience in 3D (though Dolby’s is on the cinema projector side), say they will show a new format at …
