Content
Networking Digital Posters
With a new series of VideoFlyer digital posters hitting the market, it’s time to look at some of the features. Most notably networking.
Year: 2010
General
Designing Large Format Display Systems
Our technical team have been doing an amazing job developing our new Integre Chassis product line, and yesterday we got to look at the range. Seeing is believing! These chassis are the formula one of … [more]
Digital Signage
Digital Signs & The Psychology Of The Poster
Attending The Screen breakfast briefing in London this morning raised an interesting point that probably gets overlooked about general perceptions of signage. Ever wondered about the factors that lead viewers to give their attention to … [more]
LCD Controllers
LCD Panel Database On iPhone
Digital View have migrated the PanelX LCD panel database to an iPhone version, this is available for free from iTunes though you can see details here. An updated version will be available soon providing a … [more]
General
The big deal about serial port commands
Professional grade LCD Controllers support functions and provide features that display designers can use to build extremely sophisticated LCD products. With so many features available sometimes some of the powerful features slip under the radar … [more]
Digital Signage
Viability for digital screens in vending machines
Time was, using digital displays in vending machines was a tricky business. Screens were heavy and expensive to employ. As technology moves on and standards improve it is becoming easier to integrate screens with anything. … [more]
Content
Digital Signage & Creating Audio
A lot of digital signage applications do not use audio and indeed very many of the systems Digital View as asked for do not have audio as part of the specification. However when audio is … [more]
Digital Signage
Digital Signage – making the right purchase
Increasing sales and customer loyalty is the dream of every business owner. Of course there are many ways to go about this, but I want to give you some thoughts on how to go about … [more]
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?
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]
Digital Signage
Displays: Consumer vs Commercial
There have been a number of blogs and articles recently considering the differences between consumer TV’s and commercial monitors for use in digital signage. Many interesting points have been raised and argued but to jump … [more]
Content
Content: Stock Video
Stock video can be an incredible resource for creating digital signage content. There is a lot of it, it is easy to access and easy to use – prices vary. A quick search on the … [more]
Digital Signage
RS-232 Lives On
It came as a pleasant surprise recently to see AV professionals commenting in a forum state a preference for commercial monitors with RS-232 over alternative consumer models lacking RS-232. Here at Digital View we have … [more]