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Chyron squeezes 21-inchers into forecourts
Chyron Online is billing its ChyTV Plus digital-signage system as a breakthrough in gas-station media, using 21-inch screens despite the tight limitations on space in station forecourts.
And its most recent installation, at around 100 DigiChief pumps in the Lexington, Kentucky area, is also unusual in using broadband for delivering content and remote management, rather than a mix of broadband and satellite as found in many competing systems.
Telstra pushing glasses-free 3D in Australia
Australian telco Telstra is hoping to encourage deployment of glasses-free 3D TV after installing what it says is the country's first commercial system at a demonstration facility in Melbourne.
“The commercial use of 3D technology and 3D content to create attention-grabbing digital signage has great potential for Telstra's enterprise and government customers. The technology lends itself to incredible new customer experiences,” said Paul Gleason, Telstra Enterprise & Government executive
Adwalker tightens patent protection
Adwalker has this week been granted a British patent for its interactive wearable-media system.
According to the company, the patent – which covers “the apparatus for supporting a mobile electronic display system” and runs until September 2024 – means that Adwalker now has protection for its technology in each of its three main territories: its home country of Ireland, the United Kingdom, and North America.
However, Adwalker is
Barco suffers sales slowdown
Shares in Barco, the Belgian display-hardware maker, have lost almost a third of their value in the last week after the company's second-quarter results showed plunging income.
Net income in the three months to the end of June dropped 68 percent to €4.61m ($7.26m), thanks partly to diminished sales and lower prices of video walls and digital billboards.
However, the company says it was clearing old stock to
Cayin suite designed for hotels, convention centres
Taiwan's Cayin Technology is aiming a new suite of digital-signage content-creation software at hotels and convention centres.
The xPost package combines three modules: lobbyPost, for producing lobby signage, meetingPost, with scheduling capabilities for informational displays at meeting venues, and wayfinderPost.
The three modules come with ready-to-use portrait and landscape templates, as well as clip art.
www.cayintech.com
Rise Vision adds ticker support, design wizard
Rise Vision has upgraded Rise Display Network, its Web-based content-management system for digital signage.
Offered on the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model and used mostly for small digital-signage applications by higher-education institutions, financial-services companies, hospitals and corporates, the Rise Vision system now supports live content on LED tickers and comes with a wizard to guide new users through the design process.
Pictured are outdoor screens powered by Rise Display Network
Spanish screen vendor to build in TruMedia measurement
Spain's Venco is the first display vendor to integrate TruMedia's iCapture audience-measurement system into its screens.
Venco, which launched a digital-signage division this year, will offer 46- and 52-inch LCD displays with built-in iCapture Camera and SmartBox, as well as 46-, 52- and 65-inch totems.
It will be showing the screens at trade events in Europe this autumn.
www.tru-media.com
www.vencoel.com
Samsung moves further into large formats
Samsung has nearly doubled its range of large-format displays with the addition of 17 new models, now available globally.
Bringing its large-format line to a total of 35 units, the new additions include the DXN range, bundled with MagicInfo software, which run from 32 to 80 inches. (Pictured is the 46-inch display.) MagicInfo has also been upgraded.
For video walls, Matrix ID is described as “a Lego brick
