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16:9: Want To Know How Android Fits In Digital Signage? Download This Free Report …

So far, there have been in excess of 300 downloads of the Special Report on the state of Android in digital signage. It’s a free download, with no registration strings attached. Click through and the 23-page PDF download is yours. I”m reposting because these things tend to get lost as time wears on, when a site has more than 4,500 posts on it. […]

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Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 12:30 AM

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16:9: VIA, Capital Networks Certify Rare Beast: One Commercial Android Digital Signage Player With 2 Distinct Outputs

The DEEP look I took recently into Android digital signage revealed a few things – among them how most of the players were adapted consumer set-top boxes and sticks, and how few were commercial-grade (aka reliable and predictable) devices. […]

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Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 11:20 AM

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16:9: The $85 Asus Chromebit Now Shipping; Google Halves Device Management Fee For Digital Signage Apps

The Google-backed Asus Chromebit is now on the marketplace in the U.S. and select countries, with the U.S. version priced at $85 for what’s billed as a computer on a stick. […]

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Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 8:47 AM

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Raspberry Pi Gets Custom Manufacturing

Web traffic tells me there are a lot of people out there interested in using Raspberry Pi micro-computer boards as digital signage players, since it is possible to put together a player for less than $100. […]

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Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 9:58 AM

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Digital Art Gallery Start-Up Skips Hardware R&D By Using Smart Signs

A digital artworks startup, one of several that have popped up in the last couple of years, has realized it could dodge a lengthy, painful and expensive R&D phase by forgetting about custom display hardware and simply using a smart sign display. […]

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Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:59 AM

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16:9: This Teeny PC Would Run Digital Signage On Windows, Linux OR Android

The substantial crowd out there that is endlessly looking for gear that drives capital costs out of digital signage projects will undoubtedly be intrigued by a planned Kickstarter campaign to develop a tiny x86 microcomputer that would run Windows, Linux OR Android 5.0. The units would cost roughly $100 USD in volume. […]

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Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:58 AM

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16:9’s Special Report: The State of ARM and Android In Digital Signage

There are dozens of digital signage software companies with content management systems built around or adapted to work with low-cost ARM-based media devices, and run on Google’s Linux-derived Android operating system. What started as a trickle of activity four years turned into a big wave within a couple of years. […]

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Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:20 AM

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Coming Tomorrow: The State Of Android Digital Signage Report

Client commitments greatly slowed research and production, but I’ve finally completed work on what I think is a thorough look into the state of the Android digital signage marketplace. I will upload it and make it available as a free, no-strings-attached download tomorrow off Sixteen:Nine. It’s 23 pages, so set some time aside. […]

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Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 9:26 AM

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16:9: Orange Pi From Shenzhen Undercuts Raspberry Pi Price By Half

The busiest post day to day on this blog – by a considerable margin – is one listing the various options to make digital signage projects happen with $35 Raspberry Pi single board computers. […]

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Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:22 AM

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Asus Announces Set Of $129 PCs On Sticks

The gap continues to close in the battle over the lowest cost technology for putting digital signage in the field, with news this morning that Asus is marketing a $129 PC on a stick that has an Intel processor under the teeny little hood. The Asus VivoStick PC measures 5.4? x 1.3? […]

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Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 8:31 AM

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16:9: Turn TVs Into Interactive Signs For $200 With New Gadget

The same crowd that is endlessly looking to cut display hardware, playback hardware and software costs out of digital signage projects will likely be intrigued as heck by a new IndieGogo project that turns any TV with an HDMI connector into a touch and stylus controlled display. […]

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Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 5:51 PM

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16:9: Combining Raspberry Pi & Windows 10 IoT To Make A (Very) Basic Digital Sign

  Microsoft’s developer site has a post and details up about how people determined to spend as little as possible on signage software and hardware could put a project together with a $45 Raspberry Pi single board computer and the new Windows 10 IoT Core operating system software. […]

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Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 2:16 PM

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16:9: Digital Signage On Sony’s Android TVs

A Reno, Nevada company called Directable has announced it is now marketing a digital signage solution that has been tested and approved for use with Sony’s new line of Android TVs. […]

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Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 8:24 AM

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16:9: Research Suggests Android Picking Up Steam In Signage, Embedded Markets

The embedded business unit of VIA Technologies in Taiwan – which has a big office in Silicon Valley, as well – has done a worldwide survey of end-user customers to get a sense of where they’re at with using Android. Some 93% of the roughly 250 respondents indicated they are either currently using or are considering using Android for an embedded project in the near future. […]

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Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 12:08 PM

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16:9: Android Digital Signage: Current State Of Progress

Guest Post: John C. Wang, IAdea Editor’s note: Sixteen:Nine is preparing a large report on the state of the Android signage market, and talking to industry leaders about what they’re up to and where they see things going. Instead of just notes, IAdea’s John Wang kindly wrote a full post on his POV. […]

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Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 10:20 AM

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