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Netpresenter offers free Web-based digital signage
Netpresenter, the Dutch digital-signage software specialist, is following the lead of India's InfoSignz by making a version of its product available for free as a Web-based service. Its new EasyBroadcast system is available without charge and without advertising.
Users prepare content online, incorporating media including image files, transitions, YouTube-hosted videos, and Adobe Flash animations.
The content can then be played back on any Windows PC with an 
C-nario develops software to control video walls
Israeli digital-signage software company C-nario will this month launch a new system for controlling and synchronising displays on multiple screens.
The company says C-nario Cube is aimed at applications such as video walls and multi-floor displays using live content, in the entertainment, sporting, financial and retail sectors. It could also be used at live shows, such as stadium concerts.
The system “can scale to virtually any size video
Touchscreens will be ubiquitous, says Microsoft
Microsoft is building on its Surface multitouch technology, launched just a month ago, to create large interactive screens.
At the company's CEO Summit held this week, chairman Bill Gates (pictured on a YouTube video of his presentation) demonstrated the Touch Wall, a 6x4ft interactive display which detects hand or stylus movements across it. Multitouch technology means that it can recognise more than one touch simultaneously.
“Our view is
Shinoda plans 125-inch curved plasma
Japan's Shinoda Plasma will this autumn begin mass production of a 125-inch curved plasma display that is just 1mm deep, aimed at digital-signage applications.
The display, which will be previewed at InfoComm in Las Vegas next month, measures 3x1m overall. It is built out of three 1x1m modules using Shinoda's plasma tube array (PTA) technology.
With a 960x360 resolution, it is likely to be adopted for screen-media applications
Stratacache: Indian market is now beyond the trial stage
U.S. content-distribution specialist Stratacache is the latest firm in the screen-media sector to move into the rapidly-growing Indian market, opening an office in Mumbai to support digital-signage and digital-cinema projects in the subcontinent and other areas of the Asia Pacific region.
According to Filip Vandenbussche, executive VP of international business development at the company, digital-signage initiatives in the region have now evolved from trials into concrete projects.
“However,
Samsung to offer “world's brightest” LCD
Samsung Electronics will this month start shipping what it claims is the world's brightest LCD panel and also features the widest viewing angle on the market. The company sees digital signage as a prime application for the 46-inch display, with brightness of 1500 NITs (candelas per square metre) enabling it to remain visible under strong natural or artificial light.
The TFT LCD panel is three times as bright as
Adshel brings Bluetooth to Australian streets
Australian outdoor company Adshel is using Bluetooth-based technology from Qwikker in a bid to add interactivity to its outdoor signage sites in high-traffic locations.
Adshel has unrivalled coverage in the six cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra, as well as key regional markets.
The company's network of conventional signage sites in Australia includes more than 11,000 illuminated advertising panels across street furniture – principally bus
Cinema audiences interact with big-screen ads
Brand Experience Lab in the U.S. hopes to revolutionise brand marketing in movie theatres with interactive games that foster audience participation and “socialisation” using a proprietary vision-based technology.
Its AudienceGames system is driven by the “collective movement” of theatre audiences, who serve as “human joysticks”, controlling game elements on the screen “as they move left or right”, said David Polinchock, Brand Experience Lab’s founder.
Brand Experience Lab developed
