VIA has its range of graphics and multi-display solutions on show at this year's Digital signage Expo-- including its latest, the eH1 graphics card. 

The VIA eH1 supports DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 3.1, OpenGL ES 2.0 and the stereoscopic 3D technologies, while handling multiple HD content streams. It is a low profile PCI-E add-in board, carrying the 64-bit S3 Chrome 5400E GPU. 

The company says it is ideal for embedded applications involving sophisticated graphics and HD video, such as digital signage and advertising, POS, POI and casino gaming. 

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CEO Jeff Hastings stopped by our Web TV show at ISE to tell us the European installations of its BrightSign low cost solid state digital signage player in 2010 totalled more than 20,000.

Of particular note, FNAC took 1500 sign controllers for 80 of their stores in what is presumably the largest digital signage network in France.

The highlight of its ISE participation, explained Hastings, is its new Tabletop Digital Signage Solution, the TD1012. This tabletop is a solid state tower that doesn’t require a PC or external power or wiring. Read more...

Calling itself “the only Scala platform partner in Europe with an embedded certified player,” Mdina Media came all the way from Holland to ISE with a trio of embedded solutions that featured small size, plug & play and lower power.

One example is their Nano-ITX embedded system powered by an Intel Duo Core processor. with the world’s first Nvidia NMP9 embedded ION Chipset 9400m graphics onboard. This system features Green PC standards at 20w under normal operating conditions. An SSD drive, a wireless card, and a Compact Card reader (for lo Read more...

The AOpen Forum, held just before ISE in a hotel in central Amsterdam, enters its second annual edition with a bigger and better event.

Bringing together major suppliers of digital signage (Broadsign, friendlyway, C-nario, Prestop, Net Display, MMD (Philips brand), Intel and Microsoft) with its distributor customers, AOpen has created a showcase of digital signage solutions.

Verybox of Spain and Mermaid in Scandinavia added case studies to talks from the suppliers.

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