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Getting some great insights from CEOs and CTOs on the current state, pros and cons and future of System on Chip displays – all for an updated special report I am doing with my friends at SignageOS, in Prague. The report should be out in the fall, and we’re looking for as much feedback as we can get on who is using the tech, whether it meets needs, and where it falls down. […]

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Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 8:41 AM

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16:9: With System On Chip Growing (And Evolving), It’s Time For An Updated Report

Click here to get a full-sized, more easily read version. Sixteen:Nine has been following the emergence of System on Chip technology since it came on the market more than five year ago, and last year released a special report that took a detailed look into its merits and limits. […]

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Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 5:57 PM

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16:9: RMG Latest Digital Signage CMS Software Shop To Add LG webOS Support Via Korbyt

RMG Networks is the last CMS software and solutions company to develop support for LG’s webOS smart display platform. The company’s Korbyt platform is now compatible with the display giant’s Linux-derived system on chip platform. Korbyt is RMG’s relatively new cloud-based CMS. Dallas-based RMG suggests combining webOS Signage and Korbyt offers many benefits. […]

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Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 7:21 AM

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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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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: Screenly Releases V2 Of Raspberry Pi-Focused Digital Signage Platform

UK-based Screenly, possibly/probably the most active developer of digital signage solutions that run on Raspberry Pis, has released the 2nd generation of its software platform – matter of factly called Screenly 2. […]

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Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 4:36 PM

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VIA Launches 4K H.265-Ready Commercial Android Digital Signage Player

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. […]

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Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 10:08 AM

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16:9: Powerful Raspberry Pi-style Board Appears For Android; Runs Nougat

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. […]

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Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 9:48 AM

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SignStix Latest CMS To Add SoC Support

UK-based SignStix is the latest CMS software firm to go system on chip (SoC), launching a new embedded signage solution based on the new Philips D-Line display series. […]

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Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 8:27 AM

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Meeting Room Sign Market Big Enough Now To Support Vertical-Specific Displays

The meeting room signs business has grown a lot in the last couple of years – I track more than 55 companies here, up from maybe a dozen 18 months ago. The early days, so to speak, saw companies using iPads or Windows or Android tablets as the door displays. […]

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Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 5:01 PM

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Screenly Rewrites Raspberry Pi CMS Platform; Gets IOT-Optimized On Ubuntu

I don’t normally write about the version releases announced by CMS software companies, because no one other than the company and their customers care, but I find this interesting. […]

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Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 1:38 PM

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Adtechno Debuts 4K H.265 Digital Signage Media Player

The Taiwan-based hardware firm Adtechno has started marketing a beefy little industrial-grade box aimed at the high end digital signage market – with the device capable of running 4K at 60 frames per second and using high efficiency video compression to keep file sizes down. […]

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Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:11 AM

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