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Rise Vision urges resellers to win users from rivals
Canadian software-as-a-service (SaaS) content-management provider Rise Vision is aggressively encouraging its resellers to land big contracts and convert customers away from other digital-signage software.
Through its competitive-upgrade programme, Rise Vision is offering resellers a 50-percent discount when customers move over to its Rise Display Network from a competitive product.
And Rise Vision's volume-discount programme will reduce the cost of 50 annual subscriptions to the Rise Display Network to 
Canadian casino turns to PixelNet for AV management
Jupiter Systems has landed a first commercial customer for its PixelNet technology. The Starlight Casino in New Westminster, near the Canadian city of Vancouver, has installed the system to control its AV network, which includes a ten-foot-high display wall.
PixelNet is a proprietary switched network running over Cat 5e/6 cabling that combines video from multiple sources and delivers it to multiple displays or display walls.
The Cat 5
GSTV selects LG for thousands more screens
Gas Station TV in the U.S., which is more than doubling in size this year, has named LG Electronics as its “long-term” exclusive screen provider.
The deal will also see LG advertise on Gas Station TV screens.
The Destination Media-owned network currently runs on more than 5500 screens by gas pumps in over 400 cities, but plans to expand to more than 12,000 screens in the course of
Starring at Computex: new interactive technologies
Computex, Asia’s biggest computer fair, was dominated by sub-notebooks, green technology and WiMAX – but also on display in Taipei earlier this month were developments in interactivity which could lead to some innovative screen-media products.
The coin-operated kiosks demonstrated by Hon Jet Information allow you to make a printout for a fee. It could prove a real boon for public attractions – consumers could create a personalised map, emphasising
Shining at InfoComm: bright projectors, glasses-free 3D
A welter of new digital-signage and AV products will make their debuts at the InfoComm exhibition, which opens in Las Vegas today. Here's our selection of the most interesting so far. Among the trends: glasses-free 3D, and super-bright projectors.
DT Research is adding three new sizes to its WebDT Signage System: 12, 42 and 65 inches. The company already offers 26-, 37- and 47-inch digital-signage units, as well as
ScreenScape harnesses Web for low-cost digital signage
As the trend grows toward free or bargain-basement digital signage on the software-as-a-service model, a Canadian startup is offering a Web-based system for as little as $9.99 a month.
The new platform from ScreenScape Networks, based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, already powers a number of screen-media displays in the company’s local area, and is now in beta testing as a service available to all comers.
“Our software
NTT to debut digital signage with aromas
Japanese telecommunications company NTT Communications will next month launch a digital-signage system equipped with an aroma-emitting device, following feasibility studies conducted late last year.
Akira Sakaino, sales promotion department manager in NTT’s Net Business Division, told SCREENS.tv that the Kaoru Digital Signage product will combine two existing online services: the Spot Media service for sending content from a remote server to digital signage, and the Fragrance Communication (Kaori Tsushin)
Indian firm claims 3D first
India’s Absolute 3D Visions has developed an airport digital-signage network using glasses-free 3D screens, and is looking to deploy its technology in other locations such as cinemas.
Speaking to SCREENS.tv, CEO V.S. Veerasami said: “We are the first company in India to launch [a] digital-signage network using autostereoscopic 3D display screens.”
Veerasami said that the company’s first such displays have been installed at Coimbatore Airport, where a
