Archive for January, 2008

Winners of 2008 DIGI Awards Announced

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The Winners of the fourth annual 2008 DIGI Awards put together by The Digital Signage Group, a specialty digital signage distributor have been announced. We like the idea of the awards (a lot) which are designed to honor excellence in the digital signage industry but unfortunately like the UK’s AV Interactive Awards that we commented […]

EnQii / DVM Wins DIGI Award

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

EnQii / DVM is among a number of vendors and suppliers that we have covered (and pointed out as generally good guys) who have won a DIGI award this year. EnQii’s win was in the category of “Healthcare – Excellence in Technology” for TSN’s WHEN (Wellness Health Education Network) During the Webinar announcement by the […]

C-nario Opens Paris Office

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Just as we are about to leave this beautiful city, more Paris news… C-nario announced today that the company is opening an office in Paris, France (just in case folks get confused with Paris, Texas). This is in addition to C-nario’s current bases of operation in Israel and the United States. Saadia Essoudry, C-nario’s EMEA […]

Will measuring digital signage ads really do us any good?

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We don’t often cross reference posts on other blogs – figuring that our readers can get to them themselves and indeed may have already read them. However, what with all the activity in the automated audience measurement arena at the moment – 121VIEW just launched their Interface system at ISE, Quividi have a new version […]

Panasonic’s NMstage at Screen Expo Europe

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

On the whole we have never been that impressed with digital signage software that has come out of screen manufacturer’s labs. TELentice, spun out of Fujitsu is one exception and Coolsign acquired by Clarity and then acquired by Planar is another. Panasonic’s NMstage offering is a weird one. They historically have a number of good […]

Titan Outdoor Advertising’s LED at St Pancras

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The picture shows the first Titan Outdoor large screen LED that you see as you enter St Pancras Station, London from the (still being finished) Car Park. There may be other LEDs there that we haven’t seen (yet). It’s no where near the size of the Titan Transvision screens at other UK Rail Stations. Discrete […]

BPTV UK Trials to End Feb 2008

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

As you should know, Shell from its base in the Netherlands has an RFP out for digital signage at its forecourt shops and fuel pumps, but the folks who have been really experimenting with this medium (and to some extent pioneering it) are the folks at BP with a number of pilots in the UK. […]

DOOH Viral Video 3 (Screen Expo Europe)

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

In this third installment of the Screen Expo Europe DOOH Viral Video, ‘DOOH’ this time around meets Radio. See it here first For the second time, we sneaked the script out of the studio and have it exclusively below… SCRIPT 3 – DOOH Screen – Radio DOOH Hi, I’m a Digital Out of Home Screen […]

Dior Goes Seamless BUT still uses a DVD Player

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

AV Interactive reported today that Handy AV have installed an (effective) 84 inch diagonal display (two x 42 inch as you will see below) in the Christian Dior concession area in Harrods, London. It goes on to say that… The boutique area, redesigned by Blyth Wyatt Budd, uses 42in seamless plasma screens to create the […]

Circular LED Screens at Telefonica Madrid Arena

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Spanish wireless technology solutions provider AWAMedia has launched a network of two circular LED screens and an interactive video wall at the Telefonica Madrid Arena in Spain. We understand that there are more locations to come in the next few months – possibly as many as 60 deployments in shopping malls and other retail environments […]