Spinetix and Stinova offer a new entry point into digital signage content creation and management. 

Stinova's Digital Media Server (DMS) provides large and/or remotely located digital signage networks content management for Spinetix HMP100 player users.

The DMS is browser based. Stinova offers its ECO Value package free of charge through its web portal. 

Spinetix marketing manager Serge Konter says the DMS removes the need for PC-based digital signage, by putting content management in the cloud and making it accessible from anywhere in the world.

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NEC Display announces a unique addition to its X Series, a 43-inch X431BT bar-type (for lack of a better term) display with 1920x480 native resolution and 700 cd/m² maximum brightness.

Everyone, including NEC, has 16:9 LCDs for DS applications, but not everyone is looking at different, unique sized applications. This is a flat panel, direct-view LCD monitor that's basically a long, thin strip.

The X431BT includes DisplayPort, HDMI and DVI-D connectivity, capability to be mounted in both landscape and portrait orientation, includes Picture in Read more...

We are about to witness the largest deployment of digital signage in history.

That's right - the largest deployment of digital signage technology, ever.

How big?

Well, well over 100 million (yes, million) people (translation: sets of eyeballs) will instantly be part of the world's largest digital signage network tomorrow (July 1st) when Apple launches iAd on the iPhone, iPod Touch and, one assumes, the iPad.

Apple has laid out its plan with iAd and it's pretty simple - advertisers can embed "interactive" ads inside Apps (I also assumes that eventually - although this hasn't been addressed directly by Apple, yet - ads could be embedded into other services that Apple includes on all iPhones (e.g., Mail, Text Messaging/MMS, Safari).

However, these aren't just banner ads, the ads are interactive such that you can run the ad totally inside the App itself and when you finish the ad, go back to where you were in the App. May not seem like a big deal, but one of the biggest complaints of banner ads is that they take you somewhere on a website that you may not want to go - thus, many people never click on them.

Exhibio releases their Enterprise System, a large-scale digital signage platform designed for easy deployment of digital signage into business and college campuses, retail chains and franchise locations.

The system is powered by the Enterprise Server, which runs Exhibio’s Digital Signage Management System, integrated software with a web-based interface where users can design signs and schedule content on screens anywhere in the world.

One Enterprise Server combined with remote smart terminals can produce hundreds of digital Read more...