VIA Launches 4K H.265-Ready Commercial Android Digital Signage Player July 17, 2017 by Super User Taiwan-based VIA Technologies recently launched a 4K-ready version of its commercial-grade Android digital signage player – a unit that supports HTML5 and H.265 video compression. The nerdy H.265 thing is important, as 4K video files can be huge, but the relatively new compression standard nicely shrinks the sizes down so they can move around networks …
Powerful Raspberry Pi-style Board Appears For Android; Runs Nougat April 27, 2017 by Super User The Chinese manufacturer Huawei has worked with Google on a new Raspberry Pi-like developer-centric single board computer for Android developers that, in theory, could be used for digital signage applications. Trouble is – it ain’t cheap. Ish. This news seems slightly odd, given that Huawei works under a partial ban on commercial activity in the …
SignStix Latest CMS To Add SoC Support March 14, 2017 by Super User UK-based SignStix is the latest CMS software firm to go system on chip (SoC), launching a new embedded signage solution based on the new Philips D-Line display series. What I find interesting about Philips’ “smart” signs is the displays actually have two embedded processors – with a dedicated chip for the operation of the display and a separate one …
Meeting Room Sign Market Big Enough Now To Support Vertical-Specific Displays March 9, 2017 by Super User 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 …
Screenly Rewrites Raspberry Pi CMS Platform; Gets IOT-Optimized On Ubuntu February 22, 2017 by Super User I don’t normally write about the version releases announced by CMS software companies, because no one other than the company and their customers care, but I find this interesting. London, UK-based Screenly started over and built v2 of its Raspberry Pi-focused platform from scratch, as opposed to far more common practise of making incremental additions …
Adtechno Debuts 4K H.265 Digital Signage Media Player February 22, 2017 by Super User The Taiwan-based hardware firm Adtechno has started marketing a beefy little industrial-grade box aimed at the high end digital signage market – with the device capable of running 4K at 60 frames per second and using high efficiency video compression to keep file sizes down. The AS4K2K – model AS4L01X (rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?) has …
ISE 2017: Intel Announces Smart Display Module As Answer To Embedded Smart Signage Panels February 9, 2017 by Super User 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 …
ISE 2017: Embedded Displays Turning Rapidly Into Digital Signage Standard February 8, 2017 by Super User When Samsung came out with its Smart Signage series in early 2013 there were lots of people casting serious doubts about the notion of all-in-one pro displays going anywhere. And the combination of underpowered processors and hard to work with software didn’t help boost much confidence. Four years on, system on chip “smart” displays have rapidly …
Asus Now Has Sub-$70 4K-Ready Raspberry Pi-like Micro PC January 23, 2017 by Super User Via Engadget Taiwanese computer maker Asus has released a sub $70 single board computer – called the Tinker Board – that should be beefy enough to run 4K video and get the attention of the crowd using Raspberry Pis as digital signage players. The micro PCs have: Quad core 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A17 CPU 2GB Dual channel LPDDR3 …
Viewsonic Latest Commercial DisplayCo To Add “Smart” Display Series December 13, 2016 by Super User 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 …
