Google’s Move Bodes Well For Digital Signage Consumers February 18, 2014 by Chris W Guest Post: Byron Darlison, Rise Vision Google recently announced that they are entering the digital signage market with Chromebox, which of course is running Chrome OS. From my perspective there isn’t a lot of news here and I don’t think this is a “sweep the nation overnight” move, however, it does bode well for …
Shuttle Joins The Digital Signage ARM Race February 11, 2014 by Super User Longtime small PC maker Shuttle Computer Group, based in City of Industry, California, is launching a line of ARM-based, full HD digital media players this week at DSE. “Whether you’re looking for a straightforward ARM-based player or the most sophisticated system for complicated video wall installations, Shuttle has the answer for all applications,” says Marty Lash, …
First Purpose-Built Raspberry Pi Digital Signage Players Hit Market January 31, 2014 by Super User Here’s what I think is the first purpose-designed and built Raspberry Pi digital signage player – a unit that UK-based Silver Curve will show off at the big ISE pro-AV show in Amsterdam next week. It has certainly been possible for a long time now to buy a $45 Raspberry Pi board, buy an enclosure, …
Nanonation Partnering, Demoing Dell’s New Android Stick January 30, 2014 by Super User The announcement yesterday about Dell’s new $130 HDMI stick looked hinted at something that could be used for digital signage, and the material made a general reference to it. Turns out it not only COULD be used for digital signage, it’s already been developed and integrated by Nanonation, which has been a Dell partner for …
Cenique, Rise Vision Combine On New Android Digital Signage Offer January 30, 2014 by Super User A Hong Kong-based company called Cenique has started selling a pair of Android devices – a box and an HDMI stick – that run Rise Vision’s free, open source digital signage management system. The stick costs $225 all in, while the box is $325. The interesting there here is that you have a low-cost Android …
Dell Debuts $130 Android Digital Signage HDMI Player January 29, 2014 by Super User I will stress immediately that there is a level of technical about this that is pretty much over my head, but this LOOKS at least like another interesting development in the whole anything-but-a-PC quest that has led to some 40 Android digital signage solutions out there. Dell has released its long-awaited HDMI Android dongle, a …
NEC Unveils Android-Based Smart Digital Signage Panel, Using OPS Spec January 28, 2014 by Super User NEC Display Solutions just got into the smart digital sign contest, but in a very different way. Whereas companies like Samsung and LG are effectively extending variants of their Smart TV development and hardware into commercial displays, NEC is using the Open Pluggable Spec (OPS) to allow an open-source Android player box to be snapped …
Navori Adds New Android Digital Signage Player To Product Line January 28, 2014 by Super User The Swiss software firm Navori, which has been developing in the digital signage space for more than a decade, has updated the Android offer it first introduced around this time last year. The QL StiX 3400 is an Android player that’s about the size of a deck of playing cards, but has the bits inside …
TargetR Issues Major Upgrade On Android Digital Signage Platform January 28, 2014 by Super User The UK-based software firm TargetR is introducing a major upgrade to its digital signage content management platform – putting server-level logic and s\ome pretty impressive capabilities into low-cost Android-based playback devices. TargetR Display Stacks for Android, says a release, is a self-contained digital signage solution incorporating peer to peer communications, touch screen interactivity, face detection …
One Pi + One Nerd = One Digital Sign For Kitchen January 20, 2014 by Super User San Francisco engineer/developer Brendan Nee got himself a little sub-$50 Raspberry Pi micro PC, played around with it, and came up with a real-time transit arrivals display … for his kitchen. Writes Nee on his blog: This shows the real-time arrival predictions for the transit routes near me, a map of the stops, the weather, and …
