It was one of those moments when you could hear a pin drop. Scala CEO Gerard Bucas had just finished telling the International Scala Conference about Scala’s record-breaking growth in sales (up 65% in August from last year’s August) when he dropped the bombshell. After 9-1/2 years at the helm of Scala, Bucas stood on stage and announced his retirement. (He will remain on the Scala Board of Directors.)

Next on stage came Tom Nix, the new CEO starting November 1st.

“… Scala is leading the shift to digital signage’s next stage where companies exploi Read more...

by Dave Haynes, Editor, Sixteen:Nine

The kinds of people who keep debating what the digital signage industry should call itself are the same people who made you crazy at corporate offsite meetings as they turned those dreaded “Mission Statement” exercises into all-morning marathons.

These are people who like jumbling words together and then holding them up like they just modeled something out of clay.

They make me crazy.

The digital signage industry IS the digital signage industry. You can go ahead and conjure up some pretty, mind-blowing word-salad Read more...

Designed to meet every budget, the new HD Digital Signage Media Player from Gefen makes its first appearance at IBC. This simple solution outputs content as 1080p full HD video with audio for HD systems-- and supports HDMI, component, composite and s-video devices with audio.

Calendar-based scheduling comes with Gefen Content Management Software (CMS) accessible through a network that manages all digital signage content.

Content can be pushed to the HD Digital Signage Media Player when connected through a network or pulled based on automated Read more...

by Dave Haynes, Editor of Sixteen:Nine

The Digital Screenmedia Association (DSA) has released a juiced-up Return On Investment calculator intended to help network operators – particularly retailers – properly, fully plan out a network and keep the wild-assed guessing to a bare minimum.

The DSA did a webinar this morning to see if lowest common denominators like me actually got it. The beta version is a four tab Excel spreadsheet that DSA head David Drain and Reflect President Matt Schmitt (the guy driving the task force development of the tool) Read more...