The Retail Digital Signage Expo is co-located with the Retail Business Technology Expo and the Retail Design Expo. In 2016 the event received 15,452 attendees, including over 2,100 international visitors. It is more than doubling in size for 2017 as word has spread about its success. Visitor registration is more than 50% up on last… Read more …
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ICE 2017 – Racing and Sports Summary Screens
One of the featured products on the MRG stand at ICE 2017 was the racing and sports betting summary screen designed for betting operators to display a variety of events taking place on the day of the event. The markets for football, basketball, golf or any other event can be displayed. Equally, a betting operator… Read more …
Communicating transport updates to the travelling public
Travel can be difficult sometimes. So when everything seems to be gridlocked how do you communicate the options available to an information hungry audience? Tube strikes can close large swathes of a network, roads can be gridlocked and bus queues might form to snake around a terminus. This is the very moment when timely and… Read more …
HTML templates are easy
One of the crucial aspects of MRG’s display systems is the inclusion of HTML templating. Prior to the existence of HTML, all display systems had to create and use proprietary languages. This caused training and development issues for everyone concerned. HTML is now the most commonly used display language and is at the root of… Read more …
Bryan Corbin (Tech Director) talks about ICE 2017
Bryan, MRG always take something new and exciting to ICE – what do you have this year? Bryan, “We’ve placed greater focus on the sports betting industry this year. There are new solutions for the display and management of screens specifically designed for sports betting, its multiple markets and how to solve the problem of… Read more …
ICE 2017
Every year we exhibit at ICE held at ExCel, London. Readers of this newsletter who are not connected to the world of betting, casinos and gaming may not have heard of this event. But with a long history of providing sophisticated screen display management solutions to some of the UK’s biggest bookmakers this is a… Read more …
Christmas 2016 Opening Hours
Normal office hours operate until 5:15 pm on Friday 23rd December with support available until 10:00 pm. The office is then closed until 9:00 am on Tuesday 3rd January 2017. If, during the holiday period you need support please ring +44 (0)1453 820 848 between 9:00 am and 10:00 pm daily with the exception of Christmas day…. Read more …
Future Decoded 2016 at London ExCeL
Recently the development team visited the Microsoft event Future Decoded 2016 at London ExCeL. One of the central themes of the keynote speakers was Artificial Intelligence (AI). Katja Hofmann from Microsoft Research Cambridge talked about using bots in the Minecraft game to learn about their surroundings and make informed decisions based upon previous experience. One… Read more …
How data can be used in retail digital signage
Historically, digital signage systems were installed to achieve an uplift in sales over and above the sales achieved with paper versions of a company’s advertising, promotions and the special offers. Here at MRG, we believe the use of live data within your advertising campaigns is equally as persuasive. Here are a few examples; Your campaign… Read more …
Irish Forum – November 2016
Maynooth, which is 20 miles west of Dublin is where we met our Irish independent customers over two days in November. A lot of these customers had ordered shop servers from us as instructed by their price provider, so it was good to finally meet those that we had not done so before. Adrian Potter… Read more …