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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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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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VIA To Ship $150 Commercial-Grade 4K, H.265 Digital Signage Player

We’ve all been hearing about 4K for a few years now, and the general sense has been that while 4K looks pretty damned amazing, the signage eco-system isn’t really ready for it because of the lack of content, the cost of displays and hardware, and the file size implications. […]

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Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 1:33 PM

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16:9: The Deadly Attraction Of The Next Big Thing: ARM-based media devices

GUEST POST: Charles Regula, VIA Technologies The tech industry has trained consumers to be fixated on the next big thing. That superphone you bought two years ago very likely does everything you could need, and does it well. […]

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Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:01 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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DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: Via Technologies

Charles Regula, Director of Business Development, Via Technologies  Booth 1845 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? DSE visitors who are interested in commercial-grade Android solutions should put the VIA booth on their must see list. […]

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Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 6:40 AM

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