Still using a PC with Windows or Linux (cheaper) for your digital
signage solution? If your answer is yes, then you need spend more time
on reading below texts, you will get more confidence to use our Android
based products for your digital signage.
What are the key factors to a digital signage player?
Geniatech is focus on below items to ensure our products meet the demand
for digital signage:
1.Ease of development: bases on Android, and CTS test
in our lab, we can provide you a platform full compatible with standard
Android
2.Stability: both the hardware and
kernel/framework/driver/Uboot are strengthen for 7X24 usage, some model
even with WDT. Compared to X86 based player, our player is fan-less, no
hard drive, less power consumption, has much longer MTBF.
3.Cost: compare to the X86 based media player, our
player is less than half price, that is a significant difference for
entry level projects.
4.Performance: for video decoding, top level Android
media player can playback 4K H.265 video without using CPU, and fully
HTML
5 compatible, quad core CPU up to 2Ghz frequency,
performance is not a big deal for standard digital signage applications.
5.Flexibility and connectivity: All of our media
players has at least two USB 2.0 ports and SD/TF slot, some of them have
RS232, HDMI input, even dual HDMI output, there is no issue for the
connectivity.
6.Constance of upgrading: Geniatech as a company
focus on developing Android platform for industrial usage since 2009, we
maintain longer Android build and with deeper customization on the
version we are using.
7.Security: as a customized version, customers can get
Secure boot Android as well as disabling app store and other safety
related staff.
8.Hardware quality: Unlike other consumer Android
devices, our box made of high grade materials and with burning test 4
hours before shipping.
Other featured specifications very important to digital signboard and digital signage:
1.HDMI input with PIP (picture in picture) and
overlay: you can use external STB and Blue-ray DVD player as the video
feed, and put your contents (texts, pictures, or even a video from local
or web) around the feeding video window. Or, use the video feed in as
the background, pop up messages over the video in half transparent
color.
2.Digital TV feed: similar to the HDMI input feed, we
have different kinds of digital TV tuner receivers, you can use the DTV
feed as one of you contents and put all contents together, PIP and
overlay whatever you want.
3.Dual HDMI output with different display: One of our
box can support two separate HDMI output, with different display
contents, and both of them can have 1080P video played back at the same
time.
4.1080P pixel-pixel display: a lot of Android boxes
have1080P output, but it is scaled up from 720P. We have special
firmware support true 1080P display which enlarges display pixels 4
times.
5.Vertical display: Many signage board are 6:19 not
16:9, that is to say, need a special firmware that can support rotating
the display, we made that happen as an option already.
6.Geniatech generated APIs: We created a lot of APIs
when Android doesn’t give the ability to control the system to have
certain functions, like CEC, IR blaster, RS232, hiding status bar, turn
on/off wifi/ethernet, HDMI input handling, TV tuner handling, switch off
display, control the CPU speed, etc, more than 20 kinds of APIs with
SDK support from Geniatech.
One more thing, if you are still willing to use your
current signage application for it has been using for years and you can
not or don’t want to change it, Geniatech has a cost effective solution
for you, fan-less, Intel 3735 based, full linux and Windows 8.1 support,
industrial level player, just in case.
Products can be used for digital signage boards:
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