Digital Signage
Digital posters and a little thought
Digital signage is everywhere, some of it amazingly good, some not so good. What separates the good from the bad and what is being done to build on successes?
Month: September 2010
LCD Controllers
PanelX And LCD Information
Over the past few weeks I have increasingly written about LCD and display related issues in the new PanelX blog rather than here in the DV blog. The idea of the PanelX website, which is … [more]
Digital Signage
Write Your Own Content Management System
Digital View media players are designed so companies can write their own server or PC based content management systems. A number of companies have taken advantage of this to create a proprietary system exactly matching … [more]
Content
Very Easy Content Authoring – Xtranormal
Just to be clear, I am not recommending the following as a solution for digital signage content – however I do think it strongly hints at things to come… Xtranormal.com is a web based service … [more]
Content
Using Keynote To Make Video For Real-Estate
I have often heard people dismiss the use of presentation software for digital signage content but Apple’s Keynote looks entirely suitable for some applications. For a start it is very easy to use for text, … [more]
Content
Is it really interactive?
Digital screens and interactive digital posters can still present the public at large with a challenge when it comes to using them. It can be tempting to think that ‘If you build it, they will … [more]
Content
Creating Content: What Professionals Use
First a quick definition re ‘professional’, I am using it to refer to anyone who creates video for digital signage as a significant part of their employment and has appropriate expertise. Video may be created … [more]
Content
Content: Video in a Thai Restaurant
A couple of our blog posts recently have mentioned making video out of still images so I was interested to see this approach being used by two popular local restaurants: First there is the local … [more]
Content
Creating Video With Animoto
We mentioned the Animoto web-based video creation system in a blog back in a 16 June 2010 but I thought it worth a further mention in order to draw attention to a few of their … [more]