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IN DEPTH: How digital signage drives the display market
Digital signage is now a major influence on the flat-panel display market, shaping the business models of hardware vendors and pushing forward the development of large screens.
Out-of-home applications “drive flat-panel display [FPD] penetration in almost every application and vertical market,” said Chris McIntyre-Brown, senior market analyst at Futuresource Consulting.
A recent report from the firm notes that while the worldwide business FPD market as a whole grew 
Cubb, CoolSign eye Mid-Eastern out-of-home growth
Vendors of digital out-of-home systems continue to show interest in the developing Middle Eastern market, with wearable-media firm Cubb securing representation in notoriously hard-to-crack Saudi Arabia and CoolSign supplier CS Software adding support for Arabic text.
Cubb’s wearable Cyklop screens will now be offered by Saudi company Brand Commandos, a marketing firm which describes itself as offering “non-traditional communications strategies and tactics only for the daring”. It will be
Kinoton to show 360-degree transparent display
Display maker Kinoton will show a transparent cylindrical LED screen at this month’s IBC2009 event.
Products housed inside the 360-degree Litefast Magic display are still visible through the LED image, and the unit also has space for conventional backlit posters in its pedestal for further branding.
The Litefast Magic and Kinoton’s smaller desktop Litefast Minis are said to be the only completely transparent digital displays available.
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Homegrown tech to underpin Japanese market growth
The Japanese digital-signage market will swell to ten times its current size by 2015, according to a new report.
Yeunsil Lee of Research on Asia Group predicts that the digital out-of-home sector in Japan, currently worth about 70bn yen ($740m) a year, will reach 700bn yen ($7.4bn) by 2015.
That is about ten percent of current annual advertising spend in Japan.
However, the figure is less than
Amscreen signs HMV, Coffee Nation
Amscreen in the UK continues to secure associations with high-profile brands, most recently through a deal with music retailer HMV to place informational screens in its stores’ ticket booths.
The first stage of the rollout will see Amscreen kit installed in the booths selling tickets for concerts and other events at 27 stores, including HMV’s flagship on London’s Oxford Street.
A national rollout is promised later. HMV has
Ronin signs NEC as reseller; Remote Media to co-brand
The importance of hardware partners and the reseller channel to digital-signage system vendors was underlined this week by U.S. firm Wireless Ronin and Britain’s Remote Media.
Wireless Ronin has enlisted screen supplier NEC Display Solutions as a reseller, giving the software firm the chance of sales to NEC’s large accounts.
The two firms have long worked together on a series of installations, including the University of Akron, Ohio;
Charities are winners with Canadian bingo-hall screens
While most gaming establishments use digital signage to stimulate gambling or attract patrons to ancillary offers such as catering, a bingo hall in Ontario is employing screens to promote the charities to which it donates money.
Red Barn Auditorium in Oshawa is using ScreenScape’s Web-based system to inform customers about more than 40 local and national charities which receive money from its bingo games.
And the organisation now
Digital signage is bright spot for display makers
Digital signage is becoming an increasingly important market for makers of flat-panel displays (FPDs) as overall sales slow, according to the latest figures from DisplaySearch.
After swelling at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20 percent between 2000 and 2008, the FPD market will edge ahead by just one percent a year between 2008 and 2016, the researcher says.
However, digital signage – called “public displays” by
