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Pavlovian Shoppers and The Demise of TV Retailing

By Paul Gagnon DisplaySearch If you are a client, colleague or collaborator of mine, you’ve probably heard me preaching about how TV retailing needs to change. For years, primarily since the flat panel TV transition kicked off near the early part of the last decade, TVs have been a go-to door buster for retailers seeking […]

Pavlovian Shoppers and The Demise of TV Retailing

InfoComm: Five Trends Changing Unified Communications

By Monica Heck Special to InfoComm International Whether you call it simply unified communications (UC) or you also throw collaboration into the mix (UCC), it’s clear that this years-old-yet-bleeding-edge technology has finally gained its footing. Even if you struggle to define the collection of videoconferencing, chat, email and other solutions that fall under the UC […]

InfoComm: Five Trends Changing Unified Communications

Gesture Sensing Is the Future! Apple’s Move on PrimeSense

By Calvin Hsieh DisplaySearch After several months of reported talks between the companies, Apple confirmed the acquisition of PrimeSense last weekend for a reported $360M. PrimeSense is an Israel-based company known for its structured light technology (which it calls “light coding”), which was used by Microsoft in its first Kinect. Interestingly, Microsoft switched to ToF […]

Gesture Sensing Is the Future! Apple’s Move on PrimeSense

Panasonic Moves Away From Consumer Products

Guest blog via Weezer Group The Newark Star-Ledger reported earlier this month that Panasonic will abandon consumer electronics to focus on professional products only. WOW! Many I spoke to in past few months thought the pro side of the “Big Boys” (Panasonic, Sony, Sharp, Mitsubishi, etc.) was hurting but consumer was OK. Just OK, not […]

Panasonic Moves Away From Consumer Products

Customer Engagement Moves to Convergence at CETW13

By Lyle Bunn BUNN Co. On the heels of Media Week, delegates gathered at a very successful Customer Engagement Technology World (CETW) event in New York, Nov. 6-7, 2013. The mind can go numb easily on omni-channel, 360 degree marketing, transmedia, big data, convergence, etc. etc. etc., but these concepts and the language that expresses […]

Customer Engagement Moves to Convergence at CETW13

Atlas Sound ControlKom 2.0 Used for 2013 NYC Marathon

Atlas Sound announced this week that its ControlKom 2.0 software and paging relays were selected to run the on-site paging system at the 2013 New York City Marathon on Nov. 3rd, 2013. The New York City Marathon is one of the most prestigious marathon events in the world featuring a course that navigated all five […]

Atlas Sound ControlKom 2.0 Used for 2013 NYC Marathon

Beginning With the End in Mind

By Paul Flanigan Executive Director, Digital Screenmedia Association While we love to talk about technology, we must never forget the real reason we create these solutions. I love to surf the web. I just love it. I cannot believe how much stuff there is out there. Tons of it. What I find particularly enjoyable is […]

Beginning With the End in Mind

Taco John’s & Panasonic Test New Quick Service Restaurant Technology

Pull up to the Taco John’s on South Greeley Highway in Cheyenne, Wyo. and you’ll enter the frontier of technology exploration for quick service restaurants. Since July, Taco John’s and Panasonic have been testing a new outdoor digital menu board in a drive-thru lane at the Mexican fast food restaurant. “It makes the guest experience […]

Taco John’s & Panasonic Test New Quick Service Restaurant Technology

How is Apple Impacting Your Next Product?

By Bill MacKenzie DisplayDaily Forward-looking supply chain managers track Apple with an eye toward seeing what tech features are being introduced by the company and how they can be used by other brands for their businesses. By way of example, Apple first introduced fingerprint recognition for the iPhone last year and recently is trumpeting its […]

How is Apple Impacting Your Next Product?

Kayye’s Students Raise Money for Charity with Class Project

rAVe founder Gary Kayye teaches a class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill called “New Media Technology & Its Impact on the Future of Advertising, Marketing and PR.” Every fall semester the two sections of the class compete on a new media project. This year the two classes had to use social […]

Kayye’s Students Raise Money for Charity with Class Project

Finding the Balance Between Content and Advertising

By Jeremy Gavin Founder, Screenfeed With any media there is a value-exchange in which the viewer provides its attention to get something it wants — entertainment or information — while the media owner gets what it wants — the ability to share its message. As is most often the case, the messages are advertisements or […]

Finding the Balance Between Content and Advertising

DSA Announces Winners of the 2013 Crown Awards

The Digital Screenmedia Association (DSA) has announced the winners for the DSA Crown Awards, which recognizes excellence in digital out-of-home content. The DSA Crown Awards ceremony was held at the Hard Rock Cafe Times Square in New York on Nov. 6 following the first day of Customer Engagement Technology World. The categories for the content […]

DSA Announces Winners of the 2013 Crown Awards

Future-proof Digital Signage by Investing in 4K

By Jeff Hastings CEO, BrightSign Each year, growth in our category is driven by innovation — advancements in key areas that cause our customers to invest in digital signage to help propel their businesses forward. I believe that 4K will be the catalyst that drives this growth in 2014. Unfortunately there’s significant trepidation about 4K, […]

Future-proof Digital Signage by Investing in 4K

Holographic TV in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

By Matt Brennesholtz DisplayDaily The ultimate 3D TV would be a real-time, full color holographic TV system. No glasses would be required, no conflict between accommodation and convergence, no eyestrain. It would, literally, be just like looking through a window. There is a catch, however, besides the public’s ho-hum attitude toward 3D TV. The catch […]

Holographic TV in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

The Evolution of Large-Venue Projection: Is Laser the Next Frontier?

By Richard Marples Strategic Marketing Director, Venues & Attractions for Barco The entertainment world has a virtually unquenchable thirst for innovative media, embracing new technologies as soon as they’re introduced to power their creative visions. Today’s large venue projectors have evolved in technical sophistication to the point whereby visual entertainment is limited only by show […]

The Evolution of Large-Venue Projection: Is Laser the Next Frontier?

4K TV Boom – Over 30M in 2014?

By David Hsieh DisplaySearch As shipments of LCD TVs passed the 200 million level and entered a more mature stage, panel makers and TV brands have been discussing how to grow the TV business to the next level. New features and smart TV are possible ways to drive growth. While consumers always rate “picture performance” […]

4K TV Boom – Over 30M in 2014?

What Can Be Learned From Panasonic’s Exit from Plasma?

By Paul Gray DisplaySearch Panasonic’s final announcement of its exit from plasma display manufacturing signals the end of the road for the technology. It is worth reflecting on some conclusions: When Panasonic started its plasma business, it was by no means clear that large (say 40”+) LCD displays would be viable. There were a number […]

What Can Be Learned From Panasonic’s Exit from Plasma?

InfoComm: Wireless Sound Systems Find Their Niche

By Dan Daley Special to InfoComm International The phrase “portable PA system” conjures up images of an ancient E-V bullhorn speaker with a handgrip connected by a thick curly-Q wire to the kind of microphone Broderick Crawford used on Highway Patrol in the 1950s. And anything that conjures up images of Broderick Crawford isn’t actually […]

InfoComm: Wireless Sound Systems Find Their Niche

2013 Best of CEDIA Awards

Welcome to rAVe’s annual Best of CEDIA Awards! This year’s CEDIA Expo, held last month in Denver, was exciting, but was certainly dominated by an invasion of commercial AV gear. In fact, we’d estimate at least 25 percent of the products shown at this year’s CEDIA Expo were ProAV products or digital signage products. So, […]

2013 Best of CEDIA Awards

The Future of Smart Homes

By Philip Masterson Guest Contributor When someone says, “The future is now,” many raise an eyebrow. After all, we’re still not living in a science-fiction like world with unimaginable technology. You may question if such technology is even possible. But, reality is in fact stranger than fiction. The technology available nowadays, although still expensive, is […]

The Future of Smart Homes

Ratio of Ads in a Digital Signage Playloop: Not as Simple as It Seems

By Dave Dolejsi St. Joseph Content There is a lot to consider when placing third-party advertising onto a branded digital signage network. It is not as simple as just allocating time in the playlist to outside advertisers. Network owners need to objectively look at why they are bringing in advertisers, what they need to achieve […]

Ratio of Ads in a Digital Signage Playloop: Not as Simple as It Seems

A Brief History of Broadcasting

By Aldo Cugnini DisplayDaily Broadcast & Distribution – It is sad that we must relay the news that a longtime friend will be leaving the publishing scene: Broadcast Engineering magazine. In all sincerity, I write on this here not for personal reasons (I’ve been a contributing columnist to the publication for seven of the magazine’s 54 years, and […]

A Brief History of Broadcasting

Industry Preview: Customer Engagement Technology World (CETW) 2013

By Lawrence Dvorchik General Manager, Customer Engagement Technology World What can you expect at Customer Engagement Technology World (CETW) this year? You’ll be interested in hearing from South by Southwest (SXSW) Events’ Scott Wilcox, a member of the Board of Directors for SXSW and their Director of Technology, about how they create communities through myriad […]

Industry Preview: Customer Engagement Technology World (CETW) 2013

Extron Now Shipping HDMI Streaming Encoders and Decoders

Extron is now shipping the VN-Matrix 250 series of encoders and decoders, which provide real-time transmission of high resolution HDCP-compliant HDMI, DVI or RGB video across standard IP networks. The VN-Matrix 250 Series accepts HDMI and RGB signals at resolutions up to 1920×1200 and 2048×1080 and streams video and audio over an IP network, preserving the native source resolution of digital […]

Extron Now Shipping HDMI Streaming Encoders and Decoders

Breaking News: HARMAN International Acquires Duran Audio

HARMAN today announced the acquisition of privately-held Duran Audio BV. The acquisition provides HARMAN with access to innovative electro-acoustic and software-based directivity control technologies including the successful AXYS Intellivox line of “steerable” columns. The AXYS products and core technologies will become an integrated part of the HARMAN Professional audio product line. “Today’s acquisition of Duran Audio […]

Breaking News: HARMAN International Acquires Duran Audio

InfoComm: Bring Us Your Huddled Masses — to Collaborate

By Dan Daley Special to InfoComm International Like “punt” and “Hail Mary pass,” the huddle room draws its name from football terminology embedded deep in the lexicon of American business. It’s also the outcome of a long-term trend in corporate architecture by which traditional, closed-off offices have faded from favor, while wide-open workspaces pioneered by […]

InfoComm: Bring Us Your Huddled Masses — to Collaborate

Chance to Work With USC Architecture Students in Solar Decathalon, Priceless for Students and Sponsors

By Cheryl Goldin Waveguide Consulting It’s not every day you get a chance to work hands-on with architecture students, to give them exposure to the business of building technology, but Waveguide, Spinitar and Crestron had that opportunity as sponsors of USC’s fluxHome team competing in the U.S. Department of Energy’s biennial Solar Decathlon. “We started […]

Chance to Work With USC Architecture Students in Solar Decathalon, Priceless for Students and Sponsors

Sayonara, Mitsubishi

By Sam Taylor EVP & COO, Almo Professional A/V It is a sad day for me to see Mitsubishi cease production of its large format LCDs and entire projector line. I started in the industry in 1987 for a company named Electrograph. Mitsubishi was our primary line and the company was instrumental in our early […]

Sayonara, Mitsubishi

Racks 101: Why AV Racks?

By Joel Hagen Chief This week Chief celebrates InfoComm’s AV Week  with a series about racks. This post is the first in a series about rack systems. I sat down with Rob Zurn, Chief’s Product Manager in charge of rack system products. Zurn has more than 20 years in the AV industry and has seen his share of rack systems from the dealer […]

Racks 101: Why AV Racks?

Wharton School Upgrades Video Wall with NEC Large-Screen Displays

The Challenge As the newest and biggest building at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Jon M. Huntsman Hall is the center of Wharton’s culture, bringing together learning, community, teamwork and innovation. The design of the building — from its cutting-edge technology to new classroom designs — is tailored to Wharton’s innovative curriculum and interactive […]

Wharton School Upgrades Video Wall with NEC Large-Screen Displays

Digital Menu Boards: More Than Just a Menu

By Jeff Hastings CEO, BrightSign Take a quick look around any restaurant, sports bar, food court or any other dining establishment and it’s plain to see that digital menu boards are one of the fastest-growing segments of digital signage. And it’s easy to understand why — the screens are smart and stylish, and they give […]

Digital Menu Boards: More Than Just a Menu

InfoComm: Three Reasons Digital Signage is Growing

By Jennifer Davis VP of Marketing, Planar Systems It is easy to see that digital signage has gone mainstream. The market is growing by over 35 percent and industry experts expect more than 22 million digital signs to be deployed by 2015. That’s one digital display installed every 3.5 seconds. The growth of digital signage […]

InfoComm: Three Reasons Digital Signage is Growing