Re: Digital Signage

We are in the process of doing this for the second floor of Cory Hall.
We ended up purchasing 40" Sony LCD FWD40LX. This model is designed
for signage, as opposed to going to CostCo and picking up a home tv.
The resolution (1366x768) and size (40") of this unit is a little
small. However, these units have capabilities for being managed, and
have a warranty suited for the application. We considered plasma, but
the power consumption is higher and there is a risk of burn-in.

Samsung also has some commercial signage products that might be worth
a look.

These displays will be connected to a PC running Linux with a direct
VGA connection. I don't have any experience with VGA over IP. Since
networks go up and down, my primary concern would be: What happens
when the network goes down? Hopefully the image freezes as opposed
to a message coming up.

We considered going with a commercial company to provide a solution,
but have in house staff to handle the content. We will be displaying
seminar info pulled from the campus calendar and news items.

We also have these photovu displays that have worked reasonably well
as a way to display images. They do what they need to do well, but
they are small (we have 17 or 19", 22" is avail.). One possible
solution would be to generate images from the browser and display
those using PhotoVus.

_Christopher

Christopher Brooks (cxh at eecs berkeley edu) University of California
Chess Executive Director US Mail: 337 Cory Hall #1774
Programmer/Analyst Chess/Ptolemy/Trust Berkeley, CA 94720-1774
ph: 510.643.9841 fax:510.642.2718 (office: 400A Cory)
home: (F-Tu) 707.665.0131 (W-F) 510.655.5480

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    Hi,
    
     
    
    We would like to display web content to one or more plasma screens on the
    same subnet in one of our facilities. Has anyone had any experience
    implementing a similar setup?
    
     
    
    We have investigated one provider of vga over IP (Minicom) in use by anothe
   r
    campus department. We have also considered thin clients at the screen
    sites. Any other ideas\vendor suggestions?
    
     
    
    Thanks,
    
     
    
    Alan
    
     
    
    Rec Sports

 
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