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ClearOne launches the MagicBox WebSuite digital signage software platform that allows users to control their entire signage network from any web browser at any location. And it’s available as a cloud-hosted SaaS model.

"We're making digital signage more affordable and more manageable by leveraging the efficiency of platform maintenance and security in the cloud," says Tom Searcy, VP Digital Signage Business.

"With easy to use web based software applications, you can upload and access your content while managing your signage network from a single centralized location or multiple remote locations. As organizations grow, the SaaS model provides the most affordable and secure way to scale their signage network with a powerful web-based software solution."

The MagicBox WebSuite incorporates several new applications, including content creation and asset management inside of the browser for a comprehensive design to verification experience. With the new applications, multiple users can simultaneously create and edit multiple projects.

The WebSuite digital signage software is designed to work with MagicBox digital signage media players.

Go MagicBox

CayinTechnology unveils its new generation of dual-display digital signage player, the SMP-WEBDUO.

The new player is smaller, lighter, but more powerful. It provides a wider selection of multimedia content and upgrades user experience.

Compared to the old model, this new media player reduces size by one quarter and sheds half of the weight.

Users can enjoy more value-added functions without paying more. New SMP-WEBDUO adds the video-in function, and thus enabling users to play real-time video by directly connecting to a TV tuner, DVD player, or other multimedia devices. TV programs, movies, and even surveillance video can be easily adopted to enrich digital signage networks.

SMP-WEBDUO also features its capability to control two screens simultaneously and demonstrate plentiful sets of screen combinations both in landscape and portrait orientation. Users can select from the clone, distinct, or extended mode to display identical, different, or even stretched multimedia content from one screen to another.

BlueFox creates a new content category: Hyper-local content for your screens.

The proposed products include nearby entertainment options such as movie and event listings, local fuel prices, road traffic information, air travel status and local weather. All contents can be geographically restricted by the help of geo-localization and/or usage of zip-code (not only in Europe, but in many regions around the globe).

For France also local news and local Sports results as well as local newspaper reviews are available.

Hyper-local content in Digital Signage is a completely new offer that provides excellent opportunities for local marketing. Integrating those new local content offers into out-of-home on-screen communication brings multiple advantages. Network owners will finally be able to provide their public relevant and frequently updated information concerning their neighbourhood, and in the same time it enables them to reach out to advertising customers with exciting call-to-action offers that can only be created locally.

As for the majority of BlueFox content library, the hyper-local content is non-branded and offers an excellent base to place hyper-local advertising.

The content feeds are available with or without templates and can be displayed with any Digital-place-based system on the market.

Go Bluefox: Hyper-local Content

Well, you can’t say BrightSign isn’t listening to the market. Their new updated HD models have a lower-cost (by 23% on high-end HD1020 model and 12% on entry level HD120), faster performance (2X), better video-to-video performance, and about 20% smaller form factor.

CEO Jeff Hastings [show in photo below] told us: “We wanted BrightSign HD to eliminate virtually all barriers to entry into the digital signage market. So there are no barriers to mass roll-out using a solution that’s a fraction of the cost of alternatives.”

By “alternatives,” we mean PCs that are in situ as digital signage players…that may account for as much as 60-80% of the market today. BrightSign sees the market potential still as a huge opportunity and unit growth is probably only overshadowed by extraordinary exceptions such as iPads.

BrightSign’s family of non-PC, solid-state digital sign controllers come integrated with a next-gen microprocessor to deliver improved media playback performance as well as save on manufacturing costs (and lets BrightSign pass the savings on to its customers. This is not charity; of course, it’s volume stimulus.).