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. …
Samsung Starts Shipping New P Series Of Tizen-powered Smart Displays October 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes Samsung has launched a new P-Series line of smart signage displays that are the first shipping with the Tizen operating system – the OS the company is shifting most or all of its information devices over to. The series has seven models, including 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays with 700 nits, 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays …
Samsung’s New Smart Signs To Start Shipping With Tizen OS; Signagelive Says Good To Go September 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes Samsung is moving its new version of its Smart Signage platform for commercial displays over to its own operating system Tizen, with Tizen OS-powered displays commercially available to partners, resellers and end-users by the middle of this month. That means if you want to use the new version 4.0 release of SSP displays with a CMS, …
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 …
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 …
Raspberry Pi Digital Signage Webinar Replay June 2, 2016 by Dave Haynes If you missed Canonical’s webinar yesterday on using Raspberry Pis and Ubuntu Linux for digital signage, you can hit this link and get a replay of the one-hour session. I blabber on for a bit at the start as I host the thing, but the attraction is Viktor Petersson, who runs Screenly, a signage CMS built around the low-cost micro …
Webinar: Digital Signage Meets IoT, Using Raspberry Pi May 24, 2016 by Dave Haynes Posts on doing digital signage projects using low-cost Raspberry Pi single-board PCs continue to generate crazy amounts of traffic on this site, so I continue to take an interest. A CMS solution called Screenly generates a lot of interest on 16:9 and on Raspberry Pi forums, as did recent news that Screenly was switching its operating …
NEXCOM Expands From Digital Signage Players To Free CMS Software May 5, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer NEXCOM has released its own, free digital signage management software, called PowerDigiS – aimed at the retail SMB market. The toolset is web-based and would seem – at least on paper – to be more than the barebones scheduling platforms I’ve seen a few times when hardware guys get into the …
Projects: Italy’s Postal Service Rolls Out 11,500 Digital Signs April 29, 2016 by Dave Haynes If you’ve been involved in this business for a few years, you’ll remember the “old days” when rollouts of any real size were big news. Now, big rollouts are commonplace and don’t even get much attention when they happen (unless your company got the deal). Consider this: The Italian Post Office has installed 11,500 digital signage …
