should not need to purchase additional servers for different displays -
all the multimedia can be on one server, just have each display station
link to a different file or node...
Matthew P. Stevens wrote:
I primarily use a proprietary program that I developed which utilizes
the PowerPoint viewer program. I run the PowerPoint viewer on a
server as a system service that can be started and stopped. The
program basically goes like this: Create your PowerPoint file and save
it to the server, Stop the PowerPoint viewer service and copy the
PowerPoint file to the server, Restart the PowerPoint service with the
new PowerPoint file. I automated this with batch files which allows
remote administration and operation. The beauty of this system is
that I use free software - PowerPoint viewer and a program that
turns the PowerPoint viewer program into a system service. PowerPoint
under Office Pro is used to author the files, which is something that
everyone in our office already has. You can run this setup on very
minimal hardware. I use a VGA over CAT5 box to extend to monitors
throughout the building. This requires some programming experience in
the backend for the PowerPoint viewer customization, but very little
expertise for the end user. The entire project for the first digital
sign was about $2,000 which included a 15" monitor, server, cabling,
converters and mounting hardware. Each additional digital sign is
about $1,000 for each monitor, cable, converter, splitter, etc. This
is assuming that you want to display the same content on each sign.
If you do not, you would need an additional server for each different
concurrent digital sign. PowerPoint viewer is amazingly bug free. I
recently rebooted the digital sign server after being in operation for
about 200 days without any maintenance/reboots.
We have used Scala in conjunction with a NASA project and have been
very happy.
I also recommend Firesign, a project of Anode Technologies out of
Nashville. Very robust, fairly inexpensive, and easy to use.
Regards,
-
Matthew Stevens, Technology Officer
Adventure Science Center
800 Fort Negley Blvd
Nashville TN 37203
Direct: 615-401-5064
Main: 615-862-5160
Fax: 615-862-5178
http://www.adventuresci.com <http://www.adventuresci.com/>
-----Original Message-----
From: Goral, Becky [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 10:00 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Digital Signage
Does anyone have any experience with any digital signage
software. We are thinking about implementing digital signage here
w/plasma TVs. Flexibility in the software is key so we can
display different information on each TV including general museum
information, upcoming exhibitions, video of current and upcoming
exhibitions, etc. We would like to have the hardware and software
in-house.
Thanks much,
Becky
Milwaukee Art Museum
---
You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as:
[email protected]
To unsubscribe send a blank email to
[email protected]
---
You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as:
[email protected]
To unsubscribe send a blank email to
[email protected]
--
From the mind of James [Jim] E. Landrum III,
Archaeology Materials and Database Manager,
Archaeology Technologies Laboratory (ATL; http://atl.ndsu.edu)
North Dakota State University (NDSU)
Digital Archive Network for Anthropology and World Heritage (DANA-WH;
http://dana-wh.net)
34th Annual Meeting and Conference for Computer Applications and Quantitative
Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Fargo, North Dakota, USA. April 18-21,
2006.(CAA2006 web site: http://www.caa2006.org)
---
You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected]
To unsubscribe send a blank email to
[email protected]
