Theatres, clubs and live venues

Doors at eight. The building should already say so.

A venue’s night is a moving target. Doors slip, a support act drops, set times shift, the room turns over from a seated show to a club night, and the person who knows is on a headset in the dark. Every screen in the building is still showing what somebody typed at four in the afternoon.

Three lit screens above the box office windows in a live venue foyer before doors — **Doors at seven, and the building says so before anyone asks.** Line-up, doors and last entry follow the box office rather than a slideshow, so the change made on a headset at six is on the glass at six.

A screen in a venue main room showing the running order — **Set times move, and the room finds out last.** Production changes a time on a headset and the whole building follows it, including the screens in the bars where people are deciding whether to order another one.

A screen beside VIP tables showing a table service offer with a QR code — **The screens sell the room they are standing in.** Tables, upgrades, the late show, next month on sale. A scan turns a bar screen into a booking, and the offer ends itself at the hour rather than running for a fortnight.

EVERY SCREEN · HOUSE NOTICE

Notice

Please use the north
and south exits.

Every screen, front of house and back, started from a phone

The one that has to work in the dark, in the noise, in a hurry. A duty manager takes every screen in the building from a phone. Nothing scheduled outranks it, it wakes screens that had gone to sleep, and each one confirms it rendered.

A lit screen above a bar in a dark live music venue — **The bar is where people decide whether to stay.** Last orders, what is on next, and the late show that has not sold out. Changed from a phone by whoever knows, not scheduled a week ago.

A lit screen in a backstage corridor showing call times — **Back of house is a different audience in the same building.** Call times, the running order and safety notices belong backstage and must never appear in the foyer. Zones, not a second system.

A venue is not a building with a marketing calendar

The night changes faster than a schedule can be written. Signage priced and built for a retail chain assumes somebody plans content a week out. Here the person who knows the new set time is holding a torch. What works is content that is composed from what the box office and production already know, and a phone that can change the building in one action.

Front of house and back of house are different worlds in the same building. Dressing rooms, production offices, the loading dock and the crew corridor need call times, the running order and safety notices. The foyer needs none of that, and a guest must never see it. Zones, not separate systems.

The screens are inventory on a good night. Sponsor placements, next month’s on sale, upgrades and table service, each with a start, an end and a record that it ran. A venue that can prove a placement played can charge for it twice.

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Doors, set times and last entry follow the box office and production, not a slideshow.

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House notice on every screen from a phone, front and back of house, with a render receipt from each.

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Zones so a dressing room call time is never in the foyer and a promotion is never backstage.

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Casting into green rooms, production offices and meeting spaces is in the same licence, not a second product.

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Sponsored placements with a start, an end, and per screen evidence they played.

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Adapters owned outright at $50 each, so a room refit does not restart a contract.

Order before 31 October

Two things included, and a price that stops moving.

Ava Display Edge included, on orders of 100 screens or more. Casting and content stay inside the building.
Your price is fixed for three years. What you order at is what you pay, and it is published rather than quoted.

Offer applies to orders placed before 31 October 2026. Prices are list; the hold applies to the price you order at.

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One operator, several rooms, one system.

A group running a theatre, two clubs and a lounge is four buildings with four sets of screens and usually four ways of updating them. At $40 per screen per year it is one system, and a room added next year is configuration rather than a purchase.

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