Shuttle launches 4K digital signage media player

Shuttle launches 4K digital signage media player
Shuttle Computer Group Inc. today announced its highest-definition digital signage player, the DS81, designed to deliver top-quality advertising, movie trailers and detailed 4K graphics, the company said. "Next-generation 4K displays are here, and the …
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Barco Aims to “Connect the World” at InfoComm 2014
… display intelligence to public agencies on giant video walls, event projectors powered with the latest presentation switchers to wow audiences at live shows and entertainment venues, and interactive signage that engages shoppers in a retail promenade.
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Nestlé Toll House Café by Chip expands new kiosk concept
The new café features the brand's enhanced kiosk concept, including digital menus displayed on four LED screens and an upgraded design that showcases the brand's signature product offerings in a more efficient manner, the company said in a news …
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Simplifying Digital Signage

The digital out of home industry (Dooh) is quagmire of technical expressions, complicated business strategies and hardware challenges often involving multi-discipline teams of software engineers, networking specialists, AV engineers and advertisers.

All this can make embarking in digital signage a complete headache and also invoke large set-up costs, the return on which may never be forthcoming.

And the problem is amplified when you start thinking about outdoor digital signage when the costs of waterproof or outdoor screens are taken into account making it all a highly expensive prospect.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. While many digital signage projects are left to the experts, some users choose to embark on their own – and it is not as hard as you think.

There are many budget options available for digital signage that requires little or no expertise to enable it to function. Digital posters are one such solution. These indoor screens have everything required to run a simple campaign: The screen, digital signage housing, and a media player where content can be uploaded.

These turn-key solutions are easily erected on walls and are ready to upload content and used – pretty much straight out of the box.

Even the heady world of outdoor digital signage can be made simpler. Rather than investing in an expensive outdoor screen, a standard device can be taken outdoors, no matter what the weather, as long as it is well enough protected.

LCD enclosures are commonly used to protect screens from weather and temperature extremes present in outdoor locations. They can house almost any type of standard or commercial screen and keep it protected from almost any conditions: snow, rain, wind, hail and airborne dust are all kept out of the enclosure ensuring the screen can operate without problems.

There is often room for a small PC or media player in these LCD enclosures too so you can keep the content uploading device out of the elements too.

Richard N Williams is a technical author and a specialist in the digital signage industry helping to develop outdoor digital signage and protection for plasmas. Please visit us for more information about LCD Enclosures or other digital signage solutions.

MultiTouch and Bluescape to Provide Interactive Collaborative Workspaces

MultiTouch and Bluescape to Provide Interactive Collaborative Workspaces
… Language: 日本語 (JPN); Français (FRA) Language: Français (FRA); Italiano (ITA) Language: Italiano (ITA). Digital Signage Connection. Digital Signage; Interactive Technology; Digital Out-of-Home Networks; Digital Signage Expo. Digital Signage Expo.
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5 for 5: What was trending in digital signage in April?
Gaming, scoring and banking were big in April, as was the latest media player-minus display to hit the digital signage market. What was trending on Digital Signage Today in April? Read on to find out; here are the most-read digital signage stories from …
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StrandVision Digital Signage amps up live Web page capabilities
StrandVision Digital Signage today announced that it is adding a new way to source material for its electronic signage customers. It has developed a method to capture Web page content from the Internet and intranets, automatically format it to …
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Android Digital Signage – Navori QL Software Supports NEC Android OPS Digital Media Player

Lausanne, Switzerland (PRWEB) May 21, 2014

Navori SA, a leading Digital Signage Software vendor, announces the release of their latest Navori QL Android Player software compatible with the NEC NEC OPS Digital Media Player OPS media player hardware. This ARM-based device features an 8-core graphic card that supports full 1080p resolution.

This 20 cm X 12 cm X 3 cm device can be inserted in any compatible NEC display creating a fully turnkey digital signage solution.

Mr. Jerome Moeri, Navori CEO says – “As a pioneer in the development of Android digital signage software, we are pleased to see screen manufacturers build Android-based devices that are able to support all the features of our Navori QL software.

Customers looking for high-end turnkey products are delighted with this new direction initiated by NEC and soon to be followed by the rest of the market.

Android offers many advantages over proprietary operating systems since it’s compatible with screen devices as well as tablets and mobile devices.”

About Navori:

Navori is Europe’s leading provider of digital signage software since 1997. Based in Lausanne, Switzerland, Navori markets its solutions all over the globe from its subsidiaries in Montreal, Buenos Aires and Riyadh.

Navori re-invests 25% of its revenues in research and development. The company has led to many digital signage innovations over the years, its latest being the Android QL Player launched in early 2013.







ITX Design Poised to Launch Coppermine Hosting Options in the United States for Small Business Owners Beginning in October 2013

Miami, FL (PRWEB) September 07, 2013

ITX Design CEO Doug Davis made a statement late Friday afternoon announcing plans to include Coppermine hosting beginning in early October of 2013. This move comes on the heels of ITX Design’s recent flurry of new products and services geared towards expanding the companies capability to serve small business owners.

With Coppermine hosting packages from ITX Design, customers can request script, extensions and template installation as well as on-demand Coppermine upgrades and backup restoration. Inexpensive Coppermine Hosting at ITX Design is now a reality by way of the latest technology and extremely efficient systems in place. ITX Design management believes these savings in costs should be passed on directly to the customer, and the result is low cost Coppermine image gallery hosting.

Coppermine with ITX Design is a multi-purpose fully integrated web picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as the image library with a MySQL platform. Coppermine photo gallery has interfaces with a multitude of extremely popular software packages, including e107, Invision Power Board, Joomla!, Mambo, phpBB, PostNuke, Simple Machines Forum, vBulletin plus many more. ITX Design will be offering starting packages for as little as $ 4.95 a month.

ITX Design has over a decade of experience in providing excellent hosting support for their thousands of happy customers. Whatever budget the customer has to work with, Coppermine Gallery Hosting with ITX Design means the most reliable hosting available in the marketplace. ITX Design uptime rates (99.9% guaranteed!) are one of the highest rated in hosting industry, and that’s with the vast majority of our competitors charging you far more than we do.

Coppermine hosting with ITX Design also means super simple hosting. With their vast selection of easily installed scripts from Fantastico directly in the Control Panel, there really could not be an easier and more affordable way to get a Coppermine website online, and up and running.

ITX Design has provided tens of thousands of satisfied customers over the years with the most reliable and affordable hosting solutions, and Coppermine makes a fine addition to the growing arsenal of digital products and services offered by ITX Design.

ITX Design management completely understands that small business owners demand high levels of reliable and competent support to get the most out of their website, and the staff at ITX Design are proud to be considered one of the top rated hosting companies in the business.

ITX Design is an established web hosting and domain registration provider based out of Fredericksburg, Virginia providing dedicated servers, shared web hosting, and domain registration for small businesses including server hosting, WordPress hosting, reseller hosting and much more.

For more information or to speak with a qualified customer support representative, simply call 1-866-577-1442, or visit ITX Design today.







Outdoor Digital Signage Menu Board

INSIGHT DIGITAL SIGNAGE, the leading manufacturer of protective enclosures

for LCD and plasma display equipment, has introduced a completely weather

proof Digital Menu Board enclosure product.

The Digital Menu Board enclosure has been designed to endure even the

harshest of environments while constantly providing complete protection to

the LCD it houses. In the dead of winter, or in a desert heat storm, the

Digital Menu board enclosure maintains an appropriate internal temperature,

preventing any costly downtime and replacement from freezing or overheating.

The completely water proof Digital Menu Board will stand the test of time

where ever the location may be.

The Outdoor Digital Menu Board can serve as a single screen unit, or multiple

units can be attached for double screen menus and even triple screen menus.

The Outdoor Digital Menu Board will easily coincide with any existing signs,

advertisements, or menus already in place.

Digital Menu Boards allow users to convey their message more effectively than

static menu boards and reduces the cost of creating new graphics. With a

high bright display your menu board will be highly visible even in the

brightest sunlight. Our Digital Menu Board can even display eye catching

advertisements in addition to the menu products. Insight Digital Signage’s

Outdoor Digital Menu Board provides the most attractive and the least costly

solution for any outdoor menu need.

http://www.insightdigitalsignage.com/products_digital_menu_board.html

Digital menu boards for restaurant drive up windows are just one example of

outdoor digital signage. Similar to indoor digital signage, where LCDs are

used for advertising, branding, promotion and information, outdoor

applications take these vulnerable electronic units outdoors to where there

is typically a larger audience. Using LCDs outdoors does require protection

against rain, snow, wind, and vandalism. Proprietary and very expensive

outdoor LCDs are on the market, but the cost is usually far too great.

Perhaps the best solution for protection, value, and flexibility for LCD

displays in an outdoor environment is an LCD Enclosure. They can be

customized to suit almost any environment protecting any type of LCD display

from all elements and they are also far more cost effective than outdoor

rated LCDs.

In addition to outdoor digital signage enclosures, PC and LCD TV enclosures

are the perfect solution to display company or production information in wet

or dusty industrial environments such as factory or shop floors. Prices of

LCD and plasma televisions continue to drop. The falling prices are

encouraging LCD purchases for factory production floors for use in pushing

training content, quality control, sales data, production data and more to

the production floor.

The NEMA 4 or NEMA 4X PC and LCD enclosures are built with strong steel

material to withstand the harshest of environments, including pressurized

moisture, rain, dust, dirt, tampering, wind, oil, grease and more. Standard

cooling fans and optional AC units, heaters, and thermostats insure that the

LCD and/or PC inside the enclosure remains protected in any environment, even

outdoor, public, and industrial factory or plant environments that could and

can be very harsh.

Insight Digital Signage (A Division of PC

Enclosures, Inc.) is the leading manufacturer of

protective digital signage enclosures. Our

digital signage and LCD enclosures are the

perfect advertising solution for any location and

budget.

Digital Poster And Digital Menu Board

Commercial building owners have noticed how powerful a digital poster is, so let us check out how an lcd advertising display is utilized by property managers. Digital menu boards were very first used to replace static printed posters, but now these are growing in desire as fast as the digital signage industry itself.

The digital poster can exhibit the leisure opportunities available from theatre shows, to live comedians on stage, to dinner bookings at exclusive restaurants. These posters can be residing in the guest services division that way all information is displayed in bright neon writing. For instance, a reservation for 4 at an exclusive eatery can be posted on one section while another section can be displayed to show the various kinds of menu specials. That way you are able to divide the board into sections and market all the amenities your hotel offers.

Technology is driving digital signage into new and broader areas. In this tough economy spending thousands of dollars on advertising is just not realistic, so not all companies are in a position to advertise which is how their business eventually ends up crumbling. The two options above can provide the same end results with minimal investment of time and money, so now everyone from car repair shops to lawyers to retail shops, can now have these amazing marketing signs without losing any money doing so. They can be placed in their reception or customer waiting areas.

Digital message signs and displays were particularly designed for the reception and waiting areas, so they can inform and entertain customers when they are waiting for their meeting or their car. Now we see these in hair salons, dentists, coffee houses, restaurants and small mom and pop shops.

Selecting a LED message board is the entry level for any digital signage solution, as well as being the most affordable it is also the easiest to set up and configure. No software to set up or just a simple idea and the ability to transpose it on the board is all you need, once you do that turn the power switch and let the board do the rest. Screen sizes, range from 10inches and go up to 35 inches, can be mounted in either portrait or landscape position and be hung or supported by a custom easel.
Digital menu board.

As the name suggests, these were initially designed for displaying eye catching digital menus in Quick Serve Restaurants (QSR), and are now evolving from every type of business out there. One of the huge benefits with the LED board is it displays a more impressive content, and creates a WOW factor. When you are looking for a new advertising method, choose the best and let the LED Board boost your sales and get your business the recognition it deserves.

Lari Smith has been writing articles online for nearly 3 years now. Specialize in business signs articles. If you need more about Writing Board and LED Message Board method, please reference http://www.flashingboards.com/.

An Old-Fashioned Newspaperman Takes The Helm In A Digital World

An Old-Fashioned Newspaperman Takes The Helm In A Digital World
Yet Abramson didn't sit at The New York Times' table this week as she has in years past, instead attending as a member of the journalism school's board of visitors. Earlier this month, the paper's corporate chairman and …. The Times has won praise …
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SMIC and Brite Creates New Network Platform SMIC-ASIC.com
Information Exchange – A Bulletin Board System (BBS) enables customers to freely create topics of discussions, share opinions and views, and provide comments and suggestions to SMIC and its preferred partners. Q&A – A real-time on-line service system …
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Human Circuit Integrates New Technology Enhancements in Council Chambers and Work Session Rooms for the City of Fairfax

Gaithersburg, MD (PRWEB) October 17, 2013

Human Circuit has been working to help the City of Fairfax enhance their community communications programs for over 20 years. As a long-term trusted technology advisor, Human Circuit was asked to help redesign the existing technology in the chamber to allow the television studio staff to be more efficient using intuitive and versatile controls for their audio visual and broadcast systems.

Upgrades were made to their broadcast and television production core as well as to the work session rooms using advanced audio visual, digital and high definition technology for presentation, audio conferencing and broadcast systems. This system was designed to allow council meetings, and other events held in the chambers, to be broadcast live on the city’s cable channel and streamed on the City of Fairfax website.

Rachael Roth, Cable TV Manager for Cityscreen-12 stated; “Since the early 90’s we’ve been able to rely on Human Circuit’s knowledge and innovative solutions. They’re on top of the latest technology and always find creative ways to enhance and use the equipment that we already have in place. They worked out a system that revamped and combined the old with the new and provided an infrastructure that focused on setting us up for future needs. Human Circuit’s engineers came up with a way to short cut the use of a third party data stream provider along with bulletin board software that not only saved us money but saved taxpayer money as well. These enhancements are the last step in making us a soon-to-be, totally HD station”.

The production core was upgraded to allow greater flexibility with both a local control panel and a web browser interface. Up to sixteen high definition sources and stored stills can now be switched on‐air and an enhanced, state-of-the-arts mixing console allows for individual fader control during a live event. The mixer includes a total of twenty‐four inputs (sixteen local and eight via expansion card) and a remote control with faders and mutes.

To enhance the on‐air capabilities of the system, Human Circuit recommended and installed a dual channel, automation package with a graphics system that will allow a wide variety of custom logos, crawls, DVE content, and other information to be displayed along with play-out of the City’s bulletin board.

Bruce Kaufmann, President and CEO of Human Circuit said; “The City of Fairfax has been a long term client for us, and we have a special working relationship that includes a mutual trust between our staff and theirs. They are confident in our ability to design and implement new technology solutions and our alliance is a model for a successful business relationship. They have no doubt that we share their mission to enhance communication to their citizens”.

About Human Circuit

Since 1965, Human Circuit has been a company of proven creative thinkers who are dedicated to providing vital technology integration solutions to clients in need of advanced video, audio, data and control systems for use in communications, training, broadcast, streaming, video on demand and presentation applications. With an engineering and IT-centric core, Human Circuit designs and architects intuitive solutions that are aligned with a company’s business objectives, anticipated growth and user needs. They bridge the difficult gap between those who produce technology and those who need to use it.

Human Circuit enjoys a reputation as one of the top integrators in this industry due to several factors which include; longevity in the business and the experience that this 47 year history brings. They have an excellent understanding of the latest in technology solutions.

Their extensive portfolio includes work for federal and state government entities, broadcast and television production studios, command and control centers, training facilities, distance learning centers, corporations and professional organizations, institutions of higher learning, medical and healthcare facilities and entertainment and sports venues.

For more information visit http://www.humancircuit.com