Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Digital Signage, an ever growing dynamic venue for broadcasts and advertising.

Posted by Sarina D. - Alttrix Digital Media (ADM) 

Digital signage is a sub category of signage. Digital signs are more frequently used in placemaking, wayfinding, public installations, outdoor advertisement and marketing. Digital signs display contents such as video streaming media, digital images and information by the use of projection, LED and LCD.  Digital signs are found mostly in public spaces, museums, retail stores, restaurants, hotels, transportation systems and corporate buildings. 
Digital signage use content management system and digital media distribution system for display. These can run either from simple PC, from different servers or from national media hosting providers for efficient transmission. Digital signage content can be easily uploaded and updated. This is because of real world interface provides accompanying employments in the form of image capture, touch screens and movement detection. These are easy to understand that who and how users can interact with them. This is the reason for the acceptance of digital signage over static signage.
Sports Broadcast along with Appetizing Advertisements. 

Digital signage has specific use in out of home advertisement in which advertisements and contents are easily uploaded and then displayed on Digital signage. In this way messages are transferred to the desired places very easily and in specific time. Due to this specific functionality it is often known as “Digital out of Home”.

In digital signage content refers to anything that is designed to display on screens to advertise specific things. The content may include images, videos, animations, texts and sometime interfaces as well. In additional to all this installation of digital signage is somewhat sophisticated and it needs contents that is useful for user to get back its investment. All the content is designed by specialist companies and firms such as Arsenal media, Digital kitchen and united field. 

To ensure the correct message displayed at specific time regular content update is required time by time. This can be done by two different ways; it may be manual or through digital data feed system. Both of these methods are impressive and don’t require further proof reading.
Digital signs required different hardware to deliver their message frequently. Its components mostly include screens, media players and content management server to maintain all the required content within given domain and within given time. These entire gather to make a perfect signage and then its content management server will be connected with media player over a network. These all work in series that is one content management server has the ability to support multiple media players and in return one media player can manage more than on screen at a time. In this way digital signage is better than static signage. In this way single digital signage can combine all three functions in a single device and no network plug in is required. In addition to all the advantages digital signage has some more advantages over static signage such as it runs on a variety of media operating systems such as Linux, Android and windows as well.

Digital signage is getting fame because of the latest technologies used such as three dimensional screens (3D), with glasses or without glasses. Along with three D digital signage also support LCD, Plasma screens, LED screens, projectors and other emerging media devices. In digital signage digital audiovisual contents are reproducing on TV screens. This can be done by the introduction of various audio video soft wares’ and hardware’s. Digital signage in now popular with the advent of latest technologies and it has completely replaced the original static signage. It can support latest technologies and people want to have broad and new look on their screens with the help of digital signage.

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