The “live” versions of the Digital Signage Experts Group’s Certification classes are being taught again this year at Digital Signage Expo (DSE – for those of us hooked on acronyms). DSE is being held at the Las Vegas Convention Center from March 31st through April 3rd. Here is the link for the online registration to […]
One of the hottest topics in the display industry today is direct view LED displays. As point of clarification, using LEDs as the back light for an LCD screen does not make it an LED display… just saying! The goal of our discussion here, is to answer some common questions regarding LED displays, and remove […]
If this topic looks like déjà vu… you would not be wrong. I wrote about this topic exactly one year ago today. Of course, this begs the question as to what has changed in the last 12 months. Well… the answer, from a pure technology point of view, is not much. We still see LCD […]
Each year, I am pleased to be able to shed some light (pun intended) on my favorite display medium, projectors. This year in particular, there is more diversity to talk about than usual. Of course we need to look at the “bleeding edge” of projector technologies such as resolution and solid state illumination, but there […]
By Alan C. Brawn CTS, DSCE, DSDE, DSNE, DCME, ISF-C One topic that comes up in almost all of the conversations we engage in relative to digital signage, is the concept that it looks simple on the surface but in actuality is very complex. Truth be told it does appear simple and some even try […]
By Alan C. Brawn CTS, ISF, ISF-C, DSCE, DSDE, DCME, DSNE With the “new” economy continuing to loom large it behooves us more than ever before to understand exactly what we are committing to when we invest our time and hard earned dollars in any digital signage project but especially in the niche we all […]
By Alan C. Brawn CTS, ISF, ISF-C, DSCE, DSDE, DSNE, DCME As we are all certainly aware, displays are all around us. In a recent Wall Street Journal article it was claimed that on average we spend 8 hours a day in front of one type of screen or another each and every day. If […]
By Alan C. Brawn CTS, DSCE, ISF-C, DSDE, DSNE, DCME In the world of display technologies nothing is more discussed than LCD flat panels versus all the hype over things like organic light emitting diode or OLED based displays. The truth about OLED is that it will become a force to be reckoned with but […]
By Alan C. Brawn CTS, ISF-C, DSCE, DSDE One of the most significant topics confronting all of us today is the educational system in the USA. From every perspective the subject of “quality” education is taking a prominent position in our daily lives as well as coloring our national persona. Front and center in the […]
By Alan C. Brawn CTS, ISF-C, DSCE, DSDE, DSNE, DCME As we look at modern society, one of the elements that is the most omnipresent in our daily lives is change. Few things seem to remain the same for very long. In fact, at no time in recorded history have we had such a pervasive […]
