CE labs To Debut Two 4K Digital Signage Players Next Week At Infocomm June 10, 2014 by Dave Haynes There should be quite a bit of 4K on show next week at InfoComm – both on the display side and among the hardware guys that get the signal around and on to screens. CE labs, a loyal 16:9 advertiser, will be at the Las Vegas show and will be showing off a pair of new 4k …
Navori Ports Android Player To NEC’s Slot-Loaded ARM Box May 22, 2014 by Dave Haynes The Swiss software company Navori has had an Android version of its digital signage platform on the market for the last 18 months or so, but on its own elected devices. Now the company has created an image for the software that runs on NEC’s Open Pluggable Spec (OPS) media players for Android that was launched at …
A Sub-$700 49-inch Android Smart Panel (Sadly Just Available In China) May 20, 2014 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
