Archive of the Digital Signage Category

Three Spot Campaign Features Tracks By The Strokes, Flaming Lips and Band of Horses – All Remixed By Creative Director Alex Moulton

NEW YORK, NY – Few projects tap as many skill sets at one time as the new Team Direct, Detroit, MI, created campaign for Microsoft’s Sync did for original music/sound design house Expansion Team (www.expansionteam.org). The three-spot campaign for the revolutionary new Bluetooth syncing device found in exclusively in new Ford, Lincoln & Mercury vehicles, featuring visuals from Expansion Team sister company EyeballNYC, New York, needed equal parts original music and sound design, music supervision/remixing tracks from the bands The Strokes, Flaming Lips and Band of Horses, and licensing a track from Expansion Team’s own library – the New York-based band Beasts of Eden‘s song “End Times.” The campaign is currently airing nationally. more

Premium Network Taps Creative Agency For Emotional Look Back On ’07 and ’08 Preview

BOSTON, MA – A centerpiece to HBO’s on-air branding is their annual year-end spot. Once again, the network has turned to award-winning creative agency Viewpoint Creative to create and execute this crucial two-minute piece celebrating where the channel has been and where it is going. more

Creative Company Brings New Look To Popular International Cable Channel

NEW YORK, NY – The Biography Channel teamed with New York-based design and production firm, Leroy and Clarkson (www.leroyandclarkson.com) to produce new domestic and international branding packages, part of the network’s repositioning as “Bio.”

“The network wanted a fresh, new look with great legs to reflect the start of a new era for Bio,” says Leroy and Clarkson principal and creative director Daniel Fries. “We wanted to create something they could fall in love with, something that would shape that new era.” more

New Stand-Alone System Serves as All-in-One Solution for Single-Display, Single-Site Installations

PRINCETON, N.J. — Jan. 30, 2008 — Triveni Digital, a subsidiary of LG Electronics (LGE), today announced the release of a new version of Ensignia™ Digital Signage Lobby, a stand-alone, self-contained system for digital signage deployments requiring just one display screen. Integrated with LGE’s M4210N flat-panel HDTV LCD display, the new Lobby system provides an economical solution for high-quality content display in a broad range of applications. more

Mammoth HD rolls out the RED with a new library featuring 4K, 3K and 2K originated footage

Mammoth HD’s new MHD/RED Library opens with footage shot on the RED Digital Cinema – RED ONE Digital Camera. The RED ONE captures images in 4K, 3K and 2K resolutions with frame rates from 1-75 frames per second depending on the resolution selected. This completely digital acquisition pipeline produces beautiful, clean images that can be used in every production from Feature and Indie films, advertising/commercials and marketing to HD broadcast and HD digital signage/display. The down-converted images to all the HD and SD formats are fantastic as they are over-sampled from the original files. more

Cypress, CA – (February 5, 2008) – Christie Roadie 25K DLP® projectors are powering a spectacular display of artistic images upon a 100-foot diameter Ferris wheel on Rio de Janeiro’s famous Copacabana Beach. Known for their high brightness and rugged design, a trio of stacked Roadie projectors deliver a total of 75,000 ANSI lumens to reach the wheel, located more than 154 feet away. The projectors rest on a 39-foot scaffolding tower constructed to resist the area’s high winds, which can reach up to 80 mph. more

Electrosonic Systems, the leading provider of advanced Digital Signage solutions will be showing the latest in digital signage HD players, proximity marketing systems, and RFID technologies in Las Vegas at the 2008 Digital Signage Expo. The Digital Signage Expo is the “largest international tradeshow and conference EXCLUSIVELY dedicated to the digital signage, interactive solutions and point-of-consumer media networks in retail, hospitality, financial and public spaces.� In addition, the firm will be promoting its Managed Media Services Groups’ capabilities at the show. more

Mammoth HD Footage Library

The Beijing Collections by Christin Bolweski, feature the The Forbidden City (the Chinese Imperial Palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty and is today a museum) and Tiananmen Square with Mao Zadong’s Mausoleum and the buildings surrounding the area. more

New High-Speed Mini-SAS Storage Arrays Heat Up HD & 2K Production Markets

Santa Fe Springs, CA – January 22, 2008 – Proavio, U.S.A., a leading developer of storage systems and tools for digital media production, announced today the release of the new EditBOX Mini-SAS (MS) storage line. Designed for use with the latest PCI-Express Mini-SAS RAID controllers, EditBOX MS line integrates new features including a standardized cable type, industry-standard SFF8088 interface ports with professional locking connectors, native internal Mini-SAS system architecture and an overall increase in performance by up to 20%. Proavio’s leading-edge SAS/SATA technology guarantees the industry’s most comprehensive support for 3rd party RAID controllers including Areca Technology, Atto, High-Point Technologies, LSI Logic and Apple. more

TVOne-task’s 1T-DA-462 is a professional Distribution Amplifier that provides distribution of both the audio and VGA video signal from a PC or RGB source.

ERLANGER, KY, January 9, 2008— The TVOne-task 1T-DA-462 RGBHV Distribution Amplifier provides two VGA type outputs plus Stereo Audio for use in any situation requiring multiple outputs from a single PC or other RGB video source. The video bandwidth, in excess of 450MHz, handles computer resolutions up to 2560×1600 at distances up to 300 feet from the source without signal deterioration. The1T-DA-462 has a MSRP of $110 and is currently shipping. more