Meeting Room Sign Market Big Enough Now To Support Vertical-Specific Displays March 9, 2017 by Dave Haynes The meeting room signs business has grown a lot in the last couple of years – I track more than 55 companies here, up from maybe a dozen 18 months ago. The early days, so to speak, saw companies using iPads or Windows or Android tablets as the door displays. But the business has grown …
ISE 2017: Intel Announces Smart Display Module As Answer To Embedded Smart Signage Panels February 9, 2017 by Dave Haynes Tech giant Intel has announced a plug-in module spec and reference design – called the Intel Smart Display Module or Intel SDM – that is intended, at least in part, as an answer and alternative for all those display manufacturers shipping all in one displays using ARM-based system on chip processors. The implications for the digital …
Planar The Latest Displayco To Add “Smart” Displays January 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes Beaverton, Oregon-based Planar has started marketing a 4K pro display series that includes an embedded, networked Android media player capable of driving 4K resolutions and ready for h.265 video and HTML5. It looks, however, like the only way to manage these displays is via Planar’s own ContentSmart management software – which at a quick glance …
Viewsonic Latest Commercial DisplayCo To Add “Smart” Display Series December 13, 2016 by Dave Haynes LA-based Viewsonic is the latest commercial display manufacturer to introduce a set of digital signage-centric panels that come with embedded Android media players. The company’s new CDM Series comes in 43, 49 and 55-inch versions, and they are equipped with an A9 ARM quad core processor and 16GB eMMC storage, which can be expanded to 32GB …
Shuttle Debuts Pair Of Sub-$170 4K Android Digital Signage Players December 8, 2016 by Dave Haynes The small PC computer maker Shuttle has announced a nice little pair of sub-$170 ARM-based media players aimed at the digital signage market – 4K-capable and one with built-in Power over Ethernet support. The set top box-sized units are fanless and ship with Android 5.1 installed. they also come with Shuttle’s own software, DS Creator 2.0. …
France’s Telelogos Puts CMS App On Philips’ Android Smart Displays October 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes The French digital signage CMS firm Telelogos has joined the relatively small but building list of companies that have developed solutions for Philips’ new D-Line series of system on chip smart displays, which run on Android. The Media4Display software integration with the all-in-one display series is done using an app, available from Telelogos or …
All Digital Signage Player Software Is Not Created Equal September 28, 2016 by TomerMann Guest Post: Jeffrey Weitzman, Navori Is all digital signage player software created equal? No. Probably 90% of the digital signage player software options on the market are based on interpreted languages, or web-based technologies. As the name implies, these languages can’t be executed directly and must to go through a software interpreter. This method is …
The Future Of Digital Signage Is Built-In July 25, 2016 by Mike Kilian Guest Post: Sean Levy, MediaSignage In some ways, digital signage grew up without going through puberty. This space has certainly experienced the growing pains of a nascent industry, but many of the predicted growth spikes to the industry failed to play out the way some big observers suggested it would. Instead, we have seen a market …
NanoLumens’ AWARE Adds CMS, Android Media Player To Indoor LED Display Offer June 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes The lines between hardware and software makers in digital signage continue to blur, with news that Atlanta-based LED display manufacturer NanoLumens now has a content management and remote management software suite, and a dedicated Android media player that will ship with its new displays. This is a bit along the lines of how the LCD …
Event-Based UK Digital Signage Firm Adds Permanent Offer – NowSignage June 15, 2016 by Dave Haynes Another company has entered the hyper-crowded digital signage, with the twist of using low-cost Amazon Fire set-top boxes and HDMI sticks. Manchester, UK-based EventBeat had already been doing what it calls social signage – temporary set-ups at events – but has gone permanent with what it calls NowSignage. It’s a cloud-based, web-centric platform designed to run …
