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How SignageOS’s Supra Turns Smart Display Slugs Into Jackrabbits (And Why You Should Care)

March 2, 2026 by Dave Haynes

SignageOS launches Supra at ISE 2026. (Image: SignageOS)

One of the common challenges of timing the launch of a new product or service to coincide with a trade show is that the target audience tends to be in peak distraction mode. I’m guessing that’s why I’ve not read or heard much about something called SignageOS Supra. The Czech software company launched Supra on …

New LG Smart Display Series Will Ship This Spring With BrightSignOS Onboard

January 28, 2025 by Dave Haynes

LG’s US pro display group has done an interesting tie-up that will see a new series of LG ultra high definition digital signage displays running BrightSignOS operating system, with units available to U.S. customers Q2 and international markets to follow. The new LG 49, 55, and 65-inch UV5N series models will run BrightSignOS on an …

Praevar, BrightSign Partner On All-In-One Outdoor Displays Aimed At Retail, SMB Markets

September 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes

Toronto-based specialty display manufacturer Praevar has started marketing what I think is the first large-format outdoor-rated display to have a BrightSign media player built into it, with the two companies aiming the solution at the small business market. Praevar has been making high-brightness transit shelter and totem displays for years for DOOH media companies, shopping …

Why, Despite VXT, I Am Grateful To Samsung

May 13, 2024 by Jason Cremins

Guest Post: Jason Cremins, Signagelive Samsung is now a formal competitor to digital signage software providers. It has released its VXT platform and communicated clearly with the market that it is going alone to win direct business. However, this was not always the case. In 2013, Marc Benson (our CTO) and I were approached by Samsung UK to attend a briefing at their Chertsey, UK. …

LG Launches “First” Digital Signage-Specific Projector, With Built-in SoC Smarts And webOS Support

March 29, 2023 by Dave Haynes

LG Electronics has taken the interesting step of developing and marketing a new 4K laser, 7,000 lumens projector it says is specifically tuned to the needs of digital signage applications. LG has been manufacturing and marketing projectors for years, but the main use-cases have been applications like corporate boardrooms and lecture theaters. What’s perhaps interesting …

Broadsign Ends Long Holdout, Joins Crowd Of CMS Software Firms Supporting Smart Displays

May 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes

System On Chip “smart” commercial displays have been around for almost 10 years now, but Broadsign – one of the bigger players in digital signage content management software has steered clear of the technology … until now. The Montreal-based software firm, which is heavily focused on the digital out of home advertising sector, has announced …

Samsung Remotely Disabling Connected Smart TVs Stolen By South African Looters

August 24, 2021 by Dave Haynes

Samsung has announced an interesting way to deal with looting and theft of smart TVs and, I assume, smart commercial displays – remotely disabling them and rendering the screens useless. The electronics giant announced recently that it would use a designed-in “block function” on smart screens to neuter stolen TVs in South Africa when they …

South African Retailer Kits Out Flagship With More Than 65 Smart Screens

May 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes

This is a flagship store of Edgars, a department store chain in South Africa, which was upgraded with more than 65 digital signage screens around the retail footprint. The main feature is an array of sync’d LCD screens by the escalators. It would be quite common, these days, to see that big wall clad side …

C-Store Chain Kwik Trip Finishes 1,000+ Screen Rollout Across US Midwest

March 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes

The commercial display company PPDS, aka Philips, has announced the completion of a smart digital signage rollout to some 700 Kwik Trip convenience stores across the U.S. midwest. The c-store chain started a modernization program in 2018 and now has more than 1,000 screens in place – all of them Philips D-Line displays with embedded …

Making Smart Displays Interactive Gets Easier Via Nexmosphere-SignageOS Tie-Up

November 19, 2020 by Dave Haynes

Sensors that trigger content and respond to external actions in other ways have been around digital signage for years, and like most things, it’s grown easier with time to pull these sorts of things together for uses in spaces like retail and exhibits. The Dutch start-up Nexmosphere specializes in producing sensors and controls used for …

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