Volume 13, Issue 10 — May 28, 2021

rAVe DS [Digital Signage] — Volume 13, Issue 10

May 28, 2021 | Volume: 13 | Issue: 10

Hello, digital signage #AVtweeps! Happy Friday. I write to you from the RDU airport, where my flight has been delayed five hours. We may be in a pandemic, but some things never change! (I will take this any day over being stuck in Newark for 13 hours again, however.)

Anyway, I’ll be spending Memorial Day weekend in NYC with some friends — and better believe I will be on the lookout for creative signage while I’m there. I’m looking for people-counters, the new LG signage in LGA and other new displays all around the city; I want to see it all! If you or your company have done a cool install in Manhattan — connect with me on social and let me know where I should go to look. I promised Gary I would take lots of pictures of my favorites for our episode of rAVe [TV] this Wednesday.

In this issue, we have a column from Assistant Editor Katie Clark — a wrap-up of Digital Signage Day of LAVNCH WEEK 4.0. We also have a column from Jeff Hastings on security and one from rAVe Europe’s Bob Snyder, who writes about what BrightSign is showing at ISE 2021.

Also, check out the news this week from Sony, Videotel Digital, PPDS and more.

Have a great weekend!

— Steph Beckett

COLUMNS

+ LAVNCH WEEK 4.0: Digital Signage Day Recap [Katie Clark]

Happy LAVNCH WEEK 4.0, AV pros and fans! This is my first time writing (and experiencing) a LAVNCH WEEK, and it’s been exciting, informative and FUN! In Leah McCann’s words, LAVNCH WEEK events are “part digital-event experience, part virtual product-launch stage and part networking hub,” where we take a deep dive into the now and next of all things AV.

+ BrightSign to Out-Demo the Competition [Bob Snyder]

BrightSign teamed up with Nexmosphere for not one, but a series of demos to highlight its digital signage technology at ISE Barcelona and London. It all starts at ISE with a product lineup display, from entry-level to XT.

+ Security Before Performance in our Connected AV World [Jeff Hastings]

In the connected world of cloud-based signage, security has to take precedence over performance and functionality when operating over corporate IT networks. This is often painful for AV managers. Even the flashiest, most impressive AV systems are inherently flawed if there is potential for a network to become a point-of-entry for hackers.