Elo Releases 4th-Gen, Android 10-Driven Options For Interactive Screens October 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes With self-service ordering getting mainstreamed by the pandemic – use a machine instead of riskier person to person contact – all-in-one kiosk displays are presumably seeing a lot of demand across numerous industry verticals beyond the obvious one of QSR and fast-casual. Silicon Valley-based Elo has just announced its newest interactive screen options – which …
Sony Building Up Digital Signage CMS Partners In Android/SoC-Focused Collaborative Alliance July 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes Sony wasn’t an overly active or noticed player in digital signage for a bunch of years, but the company has been steadily trying to boost both its profile and its partnership programs in the last 18 months or so. The company recently announced something called the Collaborative Alliances program, which sounded a bit like a …
Navori Debuts 2nd-Gen HDMI Stix Player That Does High-Frame Rate 4K But Costs $249 July 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes Ruggedization seems to be an evolutionary thing in the digital signage sector, with consumer hardware gradually giving way to more industrialized devices with time and experience. We’ve seen it with PCs and set-top boxes, and now that’s happening with HDMI sticks. Some of the first ones on the market, like the Dell stick and units …
iiyama Builds Startup nsign’s CMS Into Its Smart Digital Signage Displays June 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Japanese professional display manufacturer iiyama has signed an exclusive agreement with the Barcelona-area start-up nsign.tv to build its CMS software into the displayco’s Android-driven smart screens. The nsign.tv platform features will ship with iiyama digital signage displays sizes ranging from 43 to 86 inches. nsign.tv bills its offer as “a complete Communication Platform (CPaaS) that permits brands to leverage …
Android Set-Top Box Maker Minix Now Has Player Based On Intel NUC Design June 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes If you spend your days sourcing gear for media players, maybe this is not news to you. But I did not know that the Hong Kong manufacturer that seems to make the most trusted Android set-top box for digital signage applications also has a box based on Intel’s NUC design. Minix has a Next Unit …
Sony Adds IR Touch To 4K Pro Displays Via TSItouch Collaboration May 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes Sony’s 4K HDR commercial displays are now touch-ready, via a technology collaboration that puts TSItouch’s infrared (IR) multi-touch on the 55, 65 and 75-inch models of Sony’s BRAVIA – the BZ40H series of pro displays. The pitch with the TSItouch Pulse Type IR tech is that it can detect virtually any input – including a finger, gloved finger, …
Wallboard Shows Why On-Demand Video Product Demos Make Sense April 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes I pretty much write for a living, but in the context of the industry I cover, I’m usually much happier when a vendor shows me what a product or services does, as opposed to making me read about it. So I think a new YouTube demo series put out by the Hungarian/American CMS company Wallboard …
Android 11 Now Working On Raspberry Pi 4s November 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes If Raspberry Pi mini-PCs are part of your digital signage hardware mix – as a vendor, integrator or end-users – you may be intrigued by news that there is now support for the latest version of Android on the low-cost devices. 9to5 Google reports that a developer a developer has ported the Android 11-based OmniROM …
Telelogos Gets Its Signage Management Software Curbing Smartphone Use In Rolling Vehicles September 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes I’ve seen digital signage software and related technologies used in novel, unpredicted ways, but never really saw a use for it in boosting transport driver safety. The French digital signage software and solutions company Telelogos has among the best, most thorough device management set-ups I have seen in the industry – and now its spin-out …
ProDVX Debuts Rugged Digital Signage Player Box With Android 9 April 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes I associate the Dutch firm ProDVX with all-in-one displays for meeting room sign applications and related uses, but the company also makes rugged media players – likely via its Taiwan office. The company just started marketing a new media play-out box that is loaded with Android 9 – way ahead of some set-top boxes and …
