Digital Signage Players

Fanless NEXCOM NDiS B533 Digital Signage Player

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NEXCOM's fanless digital signage player, the NDiS B533 features the 4th generation Intel Core processor family ("Haswell"), and offers improved computing, graphic performance as well as enhanced security in a reliable design.

NDiS B533

"The fourth generation Intel Core processor family offers numerous processor and graphic enhancements with integrated technologies," says Sam Cravatta, Product Line Manager, Intel Intelligent Systems Group. "For example, Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 2.0 accelerates integer and floating point computations to meet increasingly complex application demands such as anonymous video analytics. New graphics capabilities also enable full hardware-accelerated video decoding to allow stereoscopic 3D visuals and faster video streaming." 

Adding the support for multiple displays, the NDiS B533 comes with three HDMI interfaces.

In addition, the NDiS B533 incorporates its fanless design in an aluminum cover and uses the latest Intel AES-NI in the 4th generation Intel Core processor family to protect signage content from tampering. The new instructions and enhancements in the Intel AES-NI allows the NDiS B533 hardware to encrypt or decrypt both local and streaming contents without taxing the processor resources, safeguarding signage content.

The NDiS B533 digital signage player supports the 4th generation Intel Core i7-4770TE and i5-4570TE processors and Intel Q87 chipset. Its fanless design supports up to 16GB of DDR3 memory, VESA/wall mounting, three independent displays with HDMI interface and network connections including LAN, Wi-Fi, and 3.5G or LTE. USB 3.0 interfaces and Mini-PCIe slots are also available for custom function and peripheral expansion.

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Advantech Adds TD Maverick

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Barco’s Sid Stanley and TDMaverick’s Jon Sidwick

Birds of a feather flock together so it’s no wonder that Advantech (one of the digital signage hardware companies with its background in IT) adds TD Maverick to its European sales network (the ProAV specialist business unit of IT broadliner, Tech Data Europe).

TDMaverick celebrated 20 years in business this year [Photo of Sid Stanley, Channel Manager EMEA for Barco, presenting a birthday cake to Maverick’s European Director, Jon Sidwick at ISE 2013] and, a timeline that took it from a fledgling distributor with 6 employees, to its claim as “the largest audiovisual specialist in Europe” selling across 14 European countries (and with successful divisions of its own: Hotlamps and Vision).

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Add Audio Content to Digital Signage

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ExXothermic

Shhh…quiet, they are still in stealth mode. But ExXothermic, a new Silicon Valley company, invited guests at InfoComm to view its system for venues with muted TVs; they deliver a personalized audio experience directly to patrons’ smartphones or tablets.

Stealth mode or not, you can find their Streamcatcher app already in the iTunes store…for free.

With ExXothermic ,users at sports bars and casinos can now listen to their favorite game while they watch the game on that publicly-muted TV.

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3M Exhibits Wide-ranging Multi-Touch Portfolio

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PCAP multi-touch display

3M exhibited its latest Projected Capacitive (PCAP) multi-touch display concepts and wide product portfolio at KIOSK Europe Expo (KEX) 2013. The now available 21.5” commercial grade chassis for interactive applications was demonstrated alongside the new 46” chassis display.

Visitors to the stand also had the opportunity to get hands-on with a 46” collaborative multi-touch table concept and a vertically mounted 55” multi-touch prototype display.

Additional products addressing OEM design challenges and kiosk and enclosure integration were also on the stand, emphasising 3M expertise in a variety of vertical markets, including retail point-of-sale, point-of-information, gaming and amusement, AV, digital signage, medical and industrial.

The 21.5-inch 3M Multi-Touch Display C2167PW, available since May, was exhibited at KEX showing visitors its ability to combine multi-touch performance, high-definition graphics, ultra-wide viewing angles, flat front surface product design and all-steel frame into a fully integrated, commercial grade multi-touch chassis device.

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$2.3 Billion a Year Wasted. That’s a lot of DOOH.

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CCO

How do you quantify wasted opportunity?

Digital out-of-home advertisers lose up to $2.3 billion a year because their campaigns fail to use the unique features offered by the medium, according to a study from Clear Channel Outdoor.

Clear Channel Outdoor, a leader in digital out-of-home, operates some 4700 digital screens in 18 global markets. The company says 3 out of 4 campaigns run on digital screens do not use digital features and capabilities to their full potential-- and advertisers lose billions in potential revenue as a result.

Clear Channel Outdoor sampled activity across its global network of digital screens, calculating that just 1 in 4 campaigns were maximizing the benefits offered by digital technology. With the worldwide digital out-of-home sector valued (by Kinetic) at $3 billion, this equates to $2.3 billion worth of ‘digital asset wastage.’

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Visix RoomBoard Announced

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RoomBoard

Visix’s newest room sign, called RoomBoard, is a touchscreen way-finding solution that shows room availability, allows scheduling at the screen and integrates with MeetingMinder conference room signs – and it’s on rAVe’s InfoComm Top 10 Tour!

The RoomBoard is custom-built with the client’s logo, colors and map. Maps are interactive and room availability is instantly recognizable with available rooms in green and busy rooms in red. Point-to-point directions and event schedules can be included, or content blocks can play back standard playlists.

Room availability is fed by a scheduling application, and a hot spot can be incorporated to launch either Microsoft Exchange or EMS, allowing viewers to schedule rooms right at the RoomBoard.

Clients can integrate the RoomBoard with MeetingMinder room signs – all being fed by a central scheduling application and all allowing scheduling at the display – for an enterprise-wide scheduling solution.

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Sapphire Launches New Products at InfoComm 2013

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SAPPHIRE Technology (one of the consumer IT companies making efforts to transition into digital signage) unveils several additions at InfoComm 2013:

  • a SAPPHIRE EDGE player PC in a metal enclosure
  • SAPPHIRE PowerScaleTM 9-output video wall processor
  • 8x8 matrix switcher over CATx
  • and an HDMI over Fiber extender. 

SAPPHIRE PowerCastX features a contemporary user interface and delivers  Full HD content in dedicated zones across a single display—or extensive grid of displays—from a local player PC. The SAPPHIRE family of EDGE player PCs includes a range built on AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) technology—delivering significant energy savings.

SAPPHIRE PowerCastXTM digital signage software

Shown for the very first time at InfoComm, the latest addition to the EDGE VS-Series: SAPPHIRE EDGE DS8, features a slim, wall mountable metal enclosure. With support for multiple Full HD outputs, integrated wired and wireless networking, and Barebones models enabling custom configurations and differentiation, SAPPHIRE player PCs are suited to a wide range of customers.

SAPPHIRE PowerScale HDMI over CATx transmitter (TX)/receiver (RX) extender kits offer wall-mountable, small form factor enclosures, bi-directional control at resolutions up to Full HD 1080p60 via IR/RS-232, Power over Ethernet (PoE), auto equalization, and 7.1 channel digital audio at up to 330ft (100m).

Also on display for the first time at InfoComm will be the new SAPPHIRE PowerScale EF1K HDMI over Fiber transmitter (TX)/receiver (RX) extender kit, providing support for resolutions up to Full HD 1080p60, bi-directional IR/RS-232 control, and 7.1 channel digital audio at distances up to 3,280ft (1 KM).

SAPPHIRE video wall solutions on display will include a SAPPHIRE PGS AMD FirePro W600 graphics card, and SAPPHIRE Pure Platinum H67 mini-ITX motherboard-based player PC powering a 3x2 multi-monitor display configuration running multiple HD video clips and other content using SAPPHIRE PowerCastX digital signage player/scheduler software.

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Big Apple & Bronx Bombers to City of The Red Devils

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Times Square

D3, the company that creates more than half of all LED displays in New York City’s Times Square [see photo], now seems to have adopted the city of Manchester.

Dynamic Digital Displays Europe announces the delivery of their latest roadside billboard for Signature Outdoor as part of their CityVision regional display network.

CityVision Expressway, unveiled in May 2013, is a landscape 12m x 3m 10mm SMD LED display located above the Aston Expressway (A38M), the main arterial route into Birmingham City Centre.

This is the third display D3 have delivered for the CityVision network and largest to date; comprised of 333 individual 10mm SMD LED modules, it’s enormous size and high traffic location makes it unmissable to visitors of the City.

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AOPEN Heralds the DE67-HAI, “Our Most Powerful Digital Engine Yet”

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AOPEN launches the Digital Engine DE67-HAI. 

Its most powerful player yet, the DE67-HAI supports the latest Intel Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) 8.0 firmware and 3rd generation Intel Core processor family.

DE67-HAI

AOPEN’s most powerful small form factor device, this system offers a range of high end features:

  • It supports 2nd generation and 3rd generation Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 processor families
  • Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT) lets users query, restore, upgrade, and protect networked digital signage devices remotely. By enabling remote manageability from a central console and allowing users to avoid the expense of on-site technician visits, Intel AMT helps reduce the total cost of ownership.
  • 1080p full HD video playback on multiple displays.
  • Low noise and low power consumption means lower heat dissipation, less energy use (saves money and supports green computing)
  • Two expansion slots, full size and half size, supporting mSATA.

Gabriëlle Offringa, Marketing Manager at AOPEN, says, “…. Its capability and compact form factor make it ideal for signage solutions within retail, finance, hospitality, large enterprises and other major vertical markets with ambitious signage needs. We see the need for video enrichment in advertising and messaging increasing, as marketing professionals become aware of the significant impact of video in their communication strategy." 

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