MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Feb 22, 2012 -- Tech Data Canada, a leading distributor of IT products, logistics management and other value added services, announced today the expansion of its already impressive line card to include five additional digital signage vendors with even more planned signings for early 2012.

Richardson, TX, February 22, 2012 – Enseo digital media players displayed the Super Bowl along with sponsor messages at the 2012 Stadium Managers Association (SMA) Annual Seminar in Palm Springs, CA. The seminar’s kick-off event, held on Super Bowl Sunday, included stadium managers from professional and collegiate stadiums from across the country.

HAWTHORNE, N.Y. — Feb. 21, 2012 — BTX Technologies, a value-added distributor and manufacturer of interface, integration, and system products, announced that the company has been named the U. S. distributor and technical support provider for Net Display Systems' PADS digital signage software. Net Display Systems is a Microsoft® Gold ISV Partner with signage solutions designed to handle applications with requirements ranging from thousands of displays down to just one. These products are available as software-only solutions or pre-installed on media players that are custom configured by BTX for content levels ranging from basic to media-intensive.

MONTREAL and CHICAGO — Feb. 21, 2012 — Haivision Network Video today announced an integration of its CoolSign™ digital signage solution with the Intel® Audience Impression Metrics Suite (Intel® AIM Suite) to deliver a groundbreaking new audience detection solution. With the Intel AIM Suite integration, CoolSign now offers sensor technology for anonymous viewer analytics to enable intelligent digital signage installations that deliver highly relevant, real-time content to the right users at the right time.

Lausanne, Switzerland, 16 February 2012 - In a ground-breaking partnership with Convergent Media Systems, a Sony Company, SpinetiX is supplying dozens of its HMP200 Hyper Media Players for a huge digital-signage rollout in Sony consumer stores across the USA. Sony’s new future-forward retail store design has been devised with the goal of providing customers with an interactive, entertaining shopping experience in which different Sony technologies are showcased on a harmonized, integrated platform.

UK company, The Healthcare Messaging Group, is providing NHS Hospitals with a digital signage solution that works to benefit both the hospital and the patients. The ‘Patient Information Initiative,’ operated by The Healthcare Messaging Group using signagelive software, delivers high quality bespoke creative messages on large screens positioned in primary locations around major NHS Trusts. The screens are targeting the vast footfall of patients and visitors and have been proven to enhance the communication of information to patients, staff and visitors as well as improve the patient’s hospital experience (see research results below).

Philadelphia, PA — February 15, 2012 — Almo Professional A/V, the nation’s fastest growing audiovisual distributor, has been named the exclusive national distributor for NanoLumens®, Inc., manufacturer of the world’s first line of ultra-slim and lightweight flexible and rigid LED displays for use in spaces previously impossible with traditional displays. NanoLumens displays will be shown in the Almo Pro A/V booth during DSE 2012 (Booth #631).

DALLAS, TX -- Reflect Systems, Inc., the premier rich media solution provider that delivers immersive customer experiences through technology and integrated services, today announced the release of ReflectView 6. Building on a tradition of excellence in providing in-store digital signage and displays, the latest version of Reflect's signature rich media suite enhances its market-leading product with developments in content and channel tagging, preview capabilities and distribution that make it easier than ever for businesses to customize, manage and transmit content seamlessly on any scale.

Lenexa, KS - Digital signage is going mainstream as a medium. Simply look around in retail stores, shopping malls, arenas, gas stations, hotel lobbies, restaurants, and just about any other place you can image, a consumer is bound to see one or more digital signs. However, even though digital signs are growing in popularity, they are likely to be a rather new medium for the majority of media creators, like graphic designers and animators, which many marketing managers turn to to create compelling content and achieve communications goals.

KITCHENER, Ont. – World-class technology converges with world-class facilities at the Stephen Hawking Centre at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ont., Canada, where 84 Christie® MicroTiles® are visually communicating a range of scientific research, training and outreach messages for a variety of audiences – including some of the world’s brightest minds. Located in the lobby, itself a mix of angles and multiple perspectives, the Christie MicroTiles array is assembled as an irregular hexagon, creating a dynamic media wall to welcome and inform all visitors.