Digital Signage Blog by Mirada Media

Looking for somewhere in downtown Montreal to watch the remaining World Cup Soccer (or Football) matches? A couple of our clients are playing the games on our digital signage screens:

• Galerie Place Ville Marie’s food court digital signage, including the 104″ video-wall, will be switching to the World Cup feed today at 2pm ET for the semi-final match between Germany and Spain.
• Vua Sandwichs info boards will be switching from regular news programming to today’s semi-final game.  Grab a sub and their cold coffee drink…so tasty.

Ryarc has released v2.2.3 of their CampaignManager 2010 digital signage software suite. The English version is available now for download here and the French version will be out shortly.

Noted improvements include:

• Support of .mkv video file format
• CampaignManager, Dappler and Zusa are now supported on Windows 7 machines (both 32 and 64 bit)
• CampaignManager can now run on Windows Server 2008
• CampaignManager now supports external audio and audio fade for campaigns

For a quote on your project, contact us here.

We recently did an install at a new Bánh mì quick-serve on St-Denis in downtown Montreal called Vua. For those who may not be familiar with the Bánh mì, it is a type of Vietnamese sub that combines thinly sliced pickled carrots and daikon, cucumbers, cilantro, chili peppers, pâté, mayonnaise and various meat fillings or tofu on a baguette made with both wheat and rice flour (yum, tasty).

The installation includes a 5-screen digital menu board with some beautiful thin-bezel screens powered by a couple of our players controlled by our new MenuView content management system. MenuView is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering that allows our customers to manage menus and product items via a web browser.

We also installed a couple other screens which capture digital cable and combine it in-restaurant promotional messages.

The press release describing Vua’s digital menu boards is below but we’ve got a couple pictures of the install here first for your enjoyment.

Press release (or download the PDF version here): Read the rest of this entry »