Digital Signage - Wireless High Definition Media Player Or Wired?
Digital signage is steaming forward using new technologies all the time, now they are using separate kinds of media players for warehouse and playing of content for the ad campaigns.
Digital advertising integrators now have the choice to use whether standalone, Wifi or hard wired media players and the guess comes down to price, lead time and the application it will be used for.
Standalone content players.
These are media players that are regularly connected with digital posters and they are built into the screen providing an all on one digital signage solution. These are powered by electricity and have to be updated manually through a Usb connector.
Wifi Hd media player.
These have the premise to store up to 1000Gb of data and offer full High Definition resolution at 1080p. These are at the sharp end as they come complete with Hdmi connectors to plug direct to the flat screen displays and will also hold Flash and Mpeg 1,2,4 also supports Mp3, Wma, Wav and Ac3 audio files. What makes it innovative is that is has a Wifi association built into the player, so you can use a laptop to login and upload data from a remote location, the wireless networks works on 802.11G and is backward compatible with other older wireless networks.
Hard wired High Definition content player.
As the name suggests you have to connect this media player to a computer network so the content can be uploaded, this is thought to be the most primary method; any way it can be very high-priced due to the use of fibre optic cable if the premise is coving for example a soccer stadium.
These are also used for the premise of digital menu boards and are regularly connected to the rear of the screen and the cables run back to a Pc near the counter where the updates can be synchronised from.
