VIA Debuts Dual Video Out Android Digital Signage Player October 15, 2014 by Dave Haynes Taipei-based VIA Technologies has released a new Android player that addresses one of the knocks used against these kinds of devices – the lack of multiple video outputs. The company’s new VIA ALTA DS 2 player has dual full HD independent video outputs, meaning one box can drive two screens with two distinct HD video channels. Much …
STiNO Latest Firm To Jump Android Digital Signage To Intel Tech October 3, 2014 by Dave Haynes The German AV software firm STiNO is the latest company to announce it is working with Intel on an entry-level Android player that uses an x86 processor instead of something produced with ARM’s reference design. That’s at least three companies in the past week, which makes me reasonably think this is not coincidental. More likely, …
Revel Digital Puts Android On Intel October 1, 2014 by Dave Haynes RevelDigital, a digital signage software firm based in Fargo, ND (yes, THAT Fargo) was one of the early copanies to get into the Android ARM race for players and platform. And now it is one of the first companies to jump on the opportunity to use an Intel chipset that will allow it to run and support …
New IAdea Media Player Design Allows Android Digital Signage On Intel Chips September 25, 2014 by Dave Haynes Taiwan’s IAdea has announced a new hardware platform that intriguingly makes it possible to run an Android digital signage application on conventional Intel x86 architecture, instead of the ARM-0based CPUs that have been used to date for Android products. The platform was demonstrated today, with Intel, at the Digital Signage Shanghai Show. IAdea suggests this new set-up …
Via Debuts New Android Box For Digital Signage September 18, 2014 by Dave Haynes The Taiwanese chip and PC maker Via has debuted a new Android box tuned to digital signage, interactive kiosks and home automation devices. The VIA ARTiGO A900 has a 1.0GHz dual core VIA Elite E1000 Cortex-A9 SoC with a high-performance 2D/3D graphics and video engine that supports Open GL ES 3.0 hardware acceleration and simultaneous multiple …
Shuttle Europe Launches $175 Android Digital Signage Players August 21, 2014 by Dave Haynes Shuttle Computer Group announced a set of ARM-based players at DSE earlier this year, and now the European wing has gone the next logical step and said they are marketing Android-specific media players. Shuttle Computer Handels GmbH, the European subsidiary of Shuttle Inc., one of the leading developers and manufacturers of compact PC solutions such …
ViA Debuts Rugged Android Tablet For Digital Retailing July 15, 2014 by Dave Haynes There were dozens of companies in the various trade halls of Computex in Taiwan last month showing tablets of varied sizes, but I didn’t see many that looked tough enough to handle more than simple home usage. Ruggedized tablets have the same DNA as consumer grade ones, but they’re engineered to handle the rigors of …
How Google’s New Android Plans Further Blur Lines Between Digital Signage And TV June 27, 2014 by Dave Haynes Google had its big annual I/O conference this week, and one of the big announcements was around expanding Android to TV platforms. Google now sees TV as just another display and communications, like smartphones and tablets. Android TV will be part of Android L, the new operating system Google previewed at its conference. Consumers will start …
Fashion Video Firm Transitioning From DVDs To Digital Signage Network June 13, 2014 by Dave Haynes A New York-based video production company called Video Catalogue, or VIDCAT for short, has launched Screen Fashion TV – a digital signage content network that runs material from premium fashion shows. The company has been producing and distributing fashion show DVDs for a decade, but has jumped on the combination of low-cost Android boxes and …
Litemax Changes Up LCD Shapes; Goes Square and Super-Wide June 11, 2014 by Dave Haynes One of the booths that grabbed my attention at Computex in Taipei last week was operate by a Taiwanese company called Litemax, which takes regular LCD glass and re-packages it in different shapes. Super-wide LCDs is not new in itself – LG did it years ago – but what struck me here was the range this …
