A Sub-$700 49-inch Android Smart Panel (Sadly Just Available In China) May 20, 2014 by Super User Bryan Mongeau, VP Technology at BroadSign, keeps one eye on the Asian flat panel display market, looking for “smart” displays with sufficient horsepower to fully apply to the digital signage space. His latest is from a Chinese startup called Xiaomi, which you may have heard of if you pay attention to the smartphone market. The …
Mvix Releases MenuBoard-Focused Android Digital Signage Solution May 12, 2014 by Super User Mvix is the latest digital signage software and hardware company to develop an Android-based product, with plans to show off its menu-board focused system at the upcoming National Restaurant Association show in Chicago. Called Mvix Andros, it’s a $99 player box that runs a quad-core ARM processor and uses Android as the operating system. Mvix …
Bizplay Latest Find In Dutch Digital Signage Hotbed May 5, 2014 by Super User Maybe I just haven’t noticed, and it’s been like this for a while, but The Netherlands seems to have developed into one of those regional hotbeds for digital signage, in the same way Southern Ontario and the Twin Cities did earlier on. The latest of MANY companies I have numbed into that come out of Holland …
Noxel’s New Android Digital Signage Player Ships With BLE Inside April 28, 2014 by Super User The Singapore firm Noxel has done an interesting spin on an Android digital signage player – embedding a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) module inside the playback device. The company says that enables the digital signage network operator – like a retailer – to use the tech for indoor positioning and location-specific push messaging to smartphones. …
Amazon Fire TV As Digital Signage Player April 9, 2014 by Super User As soon as Amazon announced its $99 Fire TV HD media player – a competitor to Apple TVs, Roku boxes and other similar devices – there would have been developers here and there wondering if this tidy, low-cost unit would work as a digital signage player. Not surprisingly, work is underway. A developer who already …
$150 Matrix Mini-PC Can Hop Between Android, Linux March 13, 2014 by Super User Here’s a possible alternative for the crowd using HDMI sticks and Raspberry Pi kits to restrict hardware costs on their digital signage networks: the Matrix Mini-PC. The Chinese-made Matrix, from a company called TBS, is a single board mini-computer with an ARM A9 quad core processor and quad core graphics, and a set-up that allows …
The Android Digital Signage Invasion Continues March 6, 2014 by Tom Graczkowski Guest Post: Bryan Mongeau, BroadSign I saw a lot of people and handled a lot of questions about Android at last month’s Digital Signage Expo, and one of the most persistent ones was whether we were selling many Android boxes and licenses. Yes, BroadSign has been selling a lot of Android devices. In the year …
Behold The Android Digital Signage Swamp February 27, 2014 by Super User The official Sixteen:Nine count of digital signage player and management platforms that now use low-cost Android/ARM devices is at 62, but I operate with the idea that it is damn near impossible to stay on top of all the little guys here, there and everywhere that have also got on this particular development bus. A …
Lightning Review: Dell’s Cloud Connect HDMI Stick & Nanonation February 25, 2014 by Super User Let’s get one thing out of the way from the get-go. I don’t have a test bench or thingies that analyze voltage or heat or duty cycles or Higgs boson mass. I have a big-ass 50-inch plasma in the rec room, and it has a spare HDMI slot. So my lab test is not your …
Germany’s Viewneo Crosses Pond With Android Digital Signage Platform February 24, 2014 by Super User On one of my sprints up and down the aisles at DSE a couple of weeks ago in Las Vegas (sigh … where it was warm), I slowed down and asked a guy at a booth called Viewneo what they did. “Easy to use digital signage,” he said, with a German accent. “And we use …
