The guys at Armodilo have built up a name and healthy business developing pretty but also rugged enclosures for tablets being used as one-to-one digital signs across a bunch of verticals, and now they’ve come up with a new line that is more about function and cost than form. […]
Software and display companies get a lot of attention in the digital signage industry, but projects don’t happen without the gear that holds screens in place and keeps them protected. I travelled up to St. […]
Guest Post: Jami McGraw, Seneca Jami McGraw Perhaps the biggest attraction of shrinking a regular PC down to a tiny, candy bar-sized stick can be summed up in one word: clutter. A computer on an HDMI stick can plug into a port on the back of a desktop display or digital signage screen, and disappear. It’s clutter-free, and for a lot of jobs, seemingly an ideal solution. […]
Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler Digital Signage Here’s some very simple, experienced advice for anyone looking at starting a large digital signage network: get a nerd in the room when you’re talking to the people who sell digital signage software. That nerd will filter the bullshit. And trust me, there’s a lot of bullshit to filter. […]
Guest Post: Mark Hemphill, ScreenScape Savvy communicators could be increasing revenues by building dynamic media channels into every one of their business locations via digital signage, but a lot of them are held back by the cost and complexity associated with that technology. It’s still too expensive and complicated for the average business owner to want to take on. […]
Guest Post: Curtis Tilly, Microspace Connectivity is the unsung hero of digital signage, making possible the whole idea of delivering the right message at the right time, in the right location, to the right audience. On-screen content, media delivery, file forwarding and system monitoring all depend on taking a reliable, scalable and cost-effective approach to connectivity. […]
Seneca has now launched and fixed a $275 USD starting price on its industrialized take on the notion of PCs on sticks. The Seneca HDS media stick is ruggedized, fanless and will do a single output of 1080p HD at 60 frames per second. […]
Taiwan’s Acer – which is into a bunch of things, from smartphones to small PCs – is touting its Build Your Own Cloud services platform as the hub for a digital signage solution offer. […]
Custom computer manufacturer Seneca is doing a webinar next week – Thursday, April 14 at 2 – on the little commercial-grade PC on a stick it recently announced. The Syracuse-based company describes the HDS as the first media stick form factor purpose-engineered for professional digital signage. […]
HDMI media sticks have been around for a few years now – ranging from dodgy stuff that comes over by sea from Shenzhen to more credible offers like the Dell Cloud Connect stick (ARM/Android) and the Asus Chromebit (ARM/ChromeOS). Intel has been touting a Compute Stick that runs a PC x86 processor, but the reviews have been mixed. […]
Online shopping giant Amazon is reportedly planning to build out a global e-commerce and supply-chain network that would – among many, many things – make buying digital signage hardware from China about as easy as ordering consumer items. […]
The Sterling, Virginia-based signage firm Mvix has launched a new hardware/software bundle that gets users a teeny Intel-based player and lifetime software for just $259. […]
If you are a digital signage propellerhead and have been looking at the Intel Compute Stick and thinking about running one with Linux on it, it looks like that won’t work so hot. ZDnet reports that a $110 Ubuntu Linux version of the PC on a stick will go on sale next week, at least in the US, but the specs are far less than those of the Windows Compute Stick. […]
When the Leap Motion came out there was quite a bit of curiosity in this sector as to whether it could be used as a low-cost but effective alternative to expensive touchscreen overlays and add-ons. I ordered one, and tried it out, and was fairly underwhelmed by its capabilities. […]
The Swiss company SpinetiX came on the market several years ago with a nice, teeny solid state media player and software platform, and pretty quietly built up its business in Europe and globally since then. […]
