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