Digital Menu Boards to Digital Posters – Everything for the Indoor Digital Signage Integrator
Posted: Monday, May 10, 2010
by Graham Gallagher
LCD Enclosure Global
Digital signage is one of the fastest growing business sectors currently, this is fantastic as most IT companies are now branching out into digital media and providing dynamic advertising solutions.
But knowing the differences between products is fundamental in providing a solution that works and is at an affordable price, we will try to explain the most cost effective solutions for indoor digital signage applications.
As the name suggests this is for indoor use in areas such as business receptions, dentist waiting rooms, doctors surgeries, hotels, colleges and Universities.
Now there are two options:
Firstly digital posters as below come complete with a built in media player that play the content you wish to provide, this is drag and dropped onto a memory card and a play list is created using Microsoft Notepad, with the order of the images, video and audio you wish to display pretty straight forward.
These range from 17" unit and go up to 80" in screen size, they come with a rear mounting plate for bolting to the wall or the smaller units can be hung as you would a picture frame. Can be used in either portrait or landscape position.
Secondly, digital menu boards, these are large screens with a media player attached to them either wired into the computer infrastructure or wireless, so that content can be updated remotely, now this is where the cross over can take place as a digital poster can do the same job as a menu board but they are easier and quicker to deploy as there is no data cabling needed or a wireless point fitted.
So if you want to update the content every day or week, the best option is a digital menu board set up, otherwise a digital poster is the answer, as you can update the content using a USB flash drive and the USB port on the media player.
Graham owns the leading manufacturer of LCD enclosures, this range of LCD enclosure are used throughout the world through a network of integrators and has over 7 years experience in the digital signage industry.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Hi Graham.Unfortunately, you're in the business of putting advertising even more into my life. Argh! I won't hold it against you though. :) Actually, I can ignore it if I want. But I ran into one of these devices not to long ago at my local Motor Vehicle Department. I live in Arizona and it's a poor state so my guess is that by putting up this digital signboard and selling advertising time on it, they are attempting to remedy the gross budget shortfall. After all, we were all just sitting there in our chairs pointed directly at the darn thing for what seemed like hours. :)Having gotten that out of my system, you article was clear, easy to understand, well written and well formatted. Great Job!I'm guessing by the small number of articles in your stable that you are fairly new to SearchWarp. So let me say WELCOME. And I hope you enjoy it all.Dianne
Thank you Dianne and yes these digital signs are set to increase dramatically in the next 12 months, so no where will be safe! New technology using bluetooth will bombard cell phones because of the user agreement you have when you sign up for a cell - this will be the equivalent of spam in our emails.
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