Sony continues to seemingly nibble around the edges of the digital signage business – kinda sorta in it, but not in any big or consistent way. The company has had system on chip smart displays since at least 2013, but has not really gone after a smart signage play in the way rivals like Samsung, LG, Phillips and others have. […]
Google yesterday announced a new service called Android Things, described as a minimal version of the Android operating system that is widely used in digital signage, on media players and in some display manufacturers’ system on chip displays. […]
The Israeli digital signage software shop NoviSign now has its platform and media player running on Sharp’s Open Architecture system-on-chip displays. The company’s online Studio editor runs on the new Sharp 40 and 50-inch PN series 24/7 displays. […]
Sharp has expanded the range of 24/7 commercial displays shipping with built-in system on chip media players and Android. The company has added 39.5-inch and 49.5-inch PN-M series displays that ship with built-in SoCs driven by Arm Cortex-A17 quad core processors, with 2 GB memory and 8 GB storage. The monitors are 50% brighter than the company’s PN-B series, are 24/7-rated. […]
One of the big challenges on the technology side of digital signage is keeping up with all of the emerging hardware and software options on the market. It used to be a reasonably simple case of developing software in one OS or another and getting it running on a PC. […]
Touchscreen-maker Elo is introducing a hardened Android appliance to drive its range of monitors, for use in applications like interactive digital signage, kiosks and Point Of Sale systems. Called the Elo Backpack, it’s a set-top box-sized device that can be remotely managed using something called EloView. […]
Slightly puzzled by PR today that suggests Sharp is introducing its first smart digital signage solutions, since the company did that more than a year ago. That was in Europe, so maybe this is the North American launch of system on chip displays that run Android. […]
Many software companies are broadening their use of System On Chip displays, both with Android and on the proprietary versions of Linux run by the big Korean displaycos. […]
There’s no question that consumers like the word free, and it’s a term that has certainly worked for LA-based MediaSignage, which sees about 100 new accounts opened up everyday for its mostly free digital signage platform. There are lots of software offers in this business that are free for the first account, but you pay after the second and third, and so on. […]
Lots of digital signage CMS companies have software that will run on a consumer or commercial tablet, or smaller, special-purpose displays, but LA-based software shop MediaSignage may be the first to market its own home-brewed tablet for interactive applications. The company has started shipping MediaTouch, a 10-inch Android-based tablet that costs just $245 USD. […]
Google recently announced an Android Management API, designed for developers who want to integrate Android device and app management capabilities into their customer solutions, like digital signage. The API currently supports Android devices that are designed to perform a specific purpose use case, like playing out media. […]
Free open source digital signage software options get a lot of reader interest here, but I’ve not seen many commercial companies take open source options and roll them into their commercial offer (unless you lump in Android). […]
Taiwan-based VIA Technologies recently launched a 4K-ready version of its commercial-grade Android digital signage player – a unit that supports HTML5 and H.265 video compression. The nerdy H.265 thing is important, as 4K video files can be huge, but the relatively new compression standard nicely shrinks the sizes down so they can move around networks in the way standard HD files do now. […]
The Chinese manufacturer Huawei has worked with Google on a new Raspberry Pi-like developer-centric single board computer for Android developers that, in theory, could be used for digital signage applications. Trouble is – it ain’t cheap. Ish. […]
Here’s a roundup of press releases in my inbox that rise above the “We’re at DSE, come see us” notes I get in waves right now. Tightrope Debuts Carousel 7.0 St. Paul, Minnesota’s Tightrope Media Systems is releasing version 7.0 of its Carousel digital signage CMS today and showcasing it next week at Digital Signage Expo, booth 134. […]
