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16:9 from ISE 2017: Intel Announces Smart Display Module As Answer To Embedded Smart Signage Panels

Tech giant Intel has announced a plug-in module spec and reference design – called the Intel Smart Display Module or Intel SDM – that is intended, at least in part, as an answer and alternative for all those display manufacturers shipping all in one displays using ARM-based system on chip processors. […]

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Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 1:23 AM

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16:9 from ISE 2017: Embedded Displays Turning Rapidly Into Digital Signage Standard

When Samsung came out with its Smart Signage series in early 2013 there were lots of people casting serious doubts about the notion of all-in-one pro displays going anywhere. And the combination of underpowered processors and hard to work with software didn’t help boost much confidence. […]

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Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 3:25 AM

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Asus Now Has Sub-$70 4K-Ready Raspberry Pi-like Micro PC

Via Engadget Taiwanese computer maker Asus has released a sub $70 single board computer – called the Tinker Board – that should be beefy enough to run 4K video and get the attention of the crowd using Raspberry Pis as digital signage players. […]

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Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 9:28 AM

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Viewsonic Latest Commercial DisplayCo To Add “Smart” Display Series

LA-based Viewsonic is the latest commercial display manufacturer to introduce a set of digital signage-centric panels that come with embedded Android media players. […]

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Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 8:49 AM

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Shuttle Debuts Pair Of Sub-$170 4K Android Digital Signage Players

The small PC computer maker Shuttle has announced a nice little pair of sub-$170 ARM-based media players aimed at the digital signage market – 4K-capable and one with built-in Power over Ethernet support. The set top box-sized units are fanless and ship with Android 5.1 installed. they also come with Shuttle’s own software, DS Creator 2.0. […]

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Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:01 AM

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16:9: Even Raspberry Pis Have Low Cost Knockoffs; Meet The $15 Orange Pi

Hat Tip to Jason Cremins of SignageLive for noticing this on TechCrunch … The Raspberry Pi micro PC started as a program aimed at teaching UK schoolkids about computing, but has also taken off in the business market, including in digital signage, because it offers the prospect of a serviceable computer for $35-$45. […]

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Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 9:20 AM

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16:9: France’s Telelogos Puts CMS App On Philips’ Android Smart Displays

  The French digital signage CMS firm Telelogos has joined the relatively small but building list of companies that have developed solutions for Philips’ new D-Line series of system on chip smart displays, which run on Android. The Media4Display software integration with the all-in-one display series is done using an app, available from Telelogos  or at www.professionaldisplayapps.com. […]

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Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 9:26 AM

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Samsung Starts Shipping New P Series Of Tizen-powered Smart Displays

Samsung has launched a new P-Series line of smart signage displays that are the first shipping with the Tizen operating system – the OS the company is shifting most or all of its information devices over to. The series has seven models, including 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays with 700 nits, 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays with 500 nits and a 32-inch display with 400 nits. […]

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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 8:52 AM

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Samsung’s New Smart Signs To Start Shipping With Tizen OS; Signagelive Says Good To Go

Samsung is moving its new version of its Smart Signage platform for commercial displays over to its own operating system Tizen, with Tizen OS-powered displays commercially available to partners, resellers and end-users by the middle of this month. That means if you want to use the new version 4.0 release of SSP displays with a CMS, that CMS needs to support Tizen OS. […]

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Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:02 AM

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Event-Based UK Digital Signage Firm Adds Permanent Offer – NowSignage

Another company has entered the hyper-crowded digital signage, with the twist of using low-cost Amazon Fire set-top boxes and HDMI sticks. […]

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Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 9:42 AM

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16:9: Raspberry Pi Digital Signage Webinar Replay

If you missed Canonical‘s webinar yesterday on using Raspberry Pis and Ubuntu Linux for digital signage, you can hit this link and get a replay of the one-hour session. I blabber on for a bit at the start as I host the thing, but the attraction is Viktor Petersson, who runs Screenly, a signage CMS built around the low-cost micro PCs. […]

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Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 7:08 AM

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Webinar: Digital Signage Meets IoT, Using Raspberry Pi

Posts on doing digital signage projects using low-cost Raspberry Pi single-board PCs continue to generate crazy amounts of traffic on this site, so I continue to take an interest. […]

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Tue, May 24, 2016 at 1:15 PM

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16:9: NEXCOM Expands From Digital Signage Players To Free CMS Software

The Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer NEXCOM has released its own, free digital signage management software, called PowerDigiS – aimed at the retail SMB market. The toolset is web-based and would seem – at least on paper – to be more than the barebones scheduling platforms I’ve seen a few times when hardware guys get into the signage software game. […]

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Thu, May 5, 2016 at 2:20 PM

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Projects: Italy’s Postal Service Rolls Out 11,500 Digital Signs

If you’ve been involved in this business for a few years, you’ll remember the “old days” when rollouts of any real size were big news. Now, big rollouts are commonplace and don’t even get much attention when they happen (unless your company got the deal). […]

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Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:57 AM

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16:9: UC View Debuts Raspberry Pi 3-Powered Digital Signage Player

I’ve heard widely varied opinions about the ability to run a digital signage application on a Raspberry Pi – the super-cheap UK micro PCs that emerged a few years ago. My general sense is that its applicability owes a lot to what you want to achieve on a screen, in terms of programming. […]

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Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 10:06 AM

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