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16:9: Why When It Comes To Digital Signage Screens, Bigger Isn’t Necessarily Better

When it comes to displays in digital signage, just about all the attention goes to screens that have steadily grown bigger, skinnier and brighter. Not a lot of attention or time has been spent on small screens – but there’s a real and growing market demand for displays in places like retail that don’t eat up all the merchandising space and better suit the store environment. […]

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Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 5:44 PM

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16:9: Nick Fearnley Talks About How SignStix Makes Smart Displays Really Smart

I am guilty of thinking about SignStix as yet another smallish digital signage CMS company scratching out a living with low-cost subscriptions and equally low-cost Android stick players. Based in Yorkshire, England, SignStix is a lot more than that. The company is indeed small, but doing some stuff that is a little bit mind-blowing. […]

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Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 5:11 AM

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Why Open Digital Signage Is A Competitive Advantage – Part 2

Guest Post: John Wang, IAdea Corporation In Openness as a Competitive Advantage – Part I, published in March 2018, I shared an example of successfully winning a prominent financial institution client who needed an open platform solution. John Wang In that case, the in-house AV/IT crew wanted the ability to perform customizations for business objectives that were unique to the institution. […]

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Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 4:24 PM

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Sony Shipping Six New Signage-Ready 4K Displays Running Android TV

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. […]

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Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:35 AM

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16:9: Google Announces Lean Version Of Android To Power “Things” Like Smart Displays

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. […]

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Tue, May 8, 2018 at 9:10 AM

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NoviSign Adds Sharp SoC Android Displays To Digital Signage Solution Set

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. […]

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Mon, May 7, 2018 at 10:37 AM

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16:9: Sharp Broadens Options For Smart Signage With Two New 24/7 Android-based 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. […]

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Wed, May 2, 2018 at 8:51 AM

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16:9 Podcasts – Stan Richter On How SignageOS Bridges CMS Platforms With Different Hardware

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. […]

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Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 12:15 AM

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Elo Introduces Android 7-based Backpack Appliance To Drive Touchscreens

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. […]

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Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 12:23 PM

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16:9: Sharp Formally Launches System On Chip And Android Smart Screen Platform For U.S. Market

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. […]

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Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 9:23 AM

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16:9: Navori Adds Support For Samsung Tizen SOC Displays; MVIV Now Runs On LG Web OS

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. […]

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Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:05 AM

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