If offering Deaf or hard of hearing visitors the ability to activate closed
captions and then switch on-the-fly between a choice of languages (say
Spanish/English in the USA), French/English in Canada or Maori/English (as I
demonstrate in this recent concept demo at the National Digital Forum in
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>+1 for BrightSign - we recen
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From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Susan
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Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Digital Signage options
We use Bright Sign https://www.brightsign.biz/ It hits most/al
We have been looking at Xibo, and that was our top choice for a bit, however
we’ve started displaying a lot of dynamic content, mostly from our calendar for
things like the day’s program schedule, or the next available guided tours and
I’m a bit hesitant to push that kind of content to a browser
We use Bright Sign https://www.brightsign.biz/
It hits most/all of your requirements. We use the BrightAuthor CMS. Ease of
use is subjective of course. It can be a little challenging to schedule
multiple files to the screens. We manage 5 screens and are pushing video
regularly.
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Susan Edwards
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My museum uses Industry Weapon. http://industryweapon.com/
I'm new here, but so far so good. Seems like there's a lot we can do with
it. It meets all of your requirements; the CMS could always be better
designed, but it works.
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Douglas Hegley wrote:
> We've had de
We've had decent luck with Xibo, an open source solution.
http://xibo.org.uk/
Although we've been hesitant to push its boundaries in terms of video, it
works great with all kinds of other file types and managing multiple
screens.
Would be great to have some colleagues using it too, then we could tr
We have a number of digital signage installations through our museum that we
use for way finding, schedule/program information, etc… We have been using
SMP-WEBDUO players to manage the content for the last 4 years, but we’re
getting to a point where the hardware is starting to show its age. Brea
