For the third consecutive year, BrightSign partnered with signage industry leaders to power the DSE’s official videowall display that greets attendees.

“Each year we strive to create a display that showcases what’s possible with digital signage today, and I believe this year’s installation has raised the bar yet again,” says Jeff Hastings, BrightSign’s CEO.

DSE assembled an industry team to collaborate on the entry display for this year’s show. Flixio Studios created rich content that BrightSign’s solid-state players distributed to Philips displays secured with Peerless-AV mounts.

All told, the mosaic-style installation covered an area of approximately 2.44m (8 feet) high by 4.88 (16 feet) wide, suspended 2.44m (8 feet) off the ground by giant columns on either side.

Weighing only 90g and controllable via an Android tablet or smartphone , the UPP! (Upgrade Public signage Player) plugs into Philips Public Signage displays to control signage content via wifi. Content can be managed, organised and updated with Android smartphones, tablets or other PCs. Videos, messages, maps or texts are transmitted to the screen and refreshed either manually or automatically at scheduled times.

CayinTechnology unveils its new generation of dual-display digital signage player, the SMP-WEBDUO.

The new player is smaller, lighter, but more powerful. It provides a wider selection of multimedia content and upgrades user experience.

Compared to the old model, this new media player reduces size by one quarter and sheds half of the weight.

Users can enjoy more value-added functions without paying more. New SMP-WEBDUO adds the video-in function, and thus enabling users to play real-time video by directly connecting to a TV tuner, DVD player, or other multimedia devices. TV programs, movies, and even surveillance video can be easily adopted to enrich digital signage networks.

SMP-WEBDUO also features its capability to control two screens simultaneously and demonstrate plentiful sets of screen combinations both in landscape and portrait orientation. Users can select from the clone, distinct, or extended mode to display identical, different, or even stretched multimedia content from one screen to another.

Well, you can’t say BrightSign isn’t listening to the market. Their new updated HD models have a lower-cost (by 23% on high-end HD1020 model and 12% on entry level HD120), faster performance (2X), better video-to-video performance, and about 20% smaller form factor.

CEO Jeff Hastings [show in photo below] told us: “We wanted BrightSign HD to eliminate virtually all barriers to entry into the digital signage market. So there are no barriers to mass roll-out using a solution that’s a fraction of the cost of alternatives.”

By “alternatives,” we mean PCs that are in situ as digital signage players…that may account for as much as 60-80% of the market today. BrightSign sees the market potential still as a huge opportunity and unit growth is probably only overshadowed by extraordinary exceptions such as iPads.

BrightSign’s family of non-PC, solid-state digital sign controllers come integrated with a next-gen microprocessor to deliver improved media playback performance as well as save on manufacturing costs (and lets BrightSign pass the savings on to its customers. This is not charity; of course, it’s volume stimulus.).