Travel Technology - Recommendations - web-based digital signage?

This may not be travel specific but I have come to trust the opinions of my fellow FTers.

I work for a company that wants to install LCD TV's in different facilities around the US and Canada. From a home-base location, I want to be able to control, add and delete the content added to each TV. Each location needs to have customized, local content which out staff will create. Content would be company news, announcements, etc. I would be great if it could also offer an automated news/weather feed as well.

No need for sound, no need for response to the content. Cheapest option isn't what I seek. Best performance at a reasonable price sounds more like it.

Anyone work with something like this that they like? Any opinions? Thank you!

what networking will be available to each TV location? a TV with a cheap, low powered single board computer would do the trick - Raspberry Pi, even one of the cheap android units. (It has been a while since I was into wearable computers and the industrial SBCs but places like Advantech have long advertised boards for doing stuff like this).

This may not be travel specific but I have come to trust the opinions of my fellow FTers.

I work for a company that wants to install LCD TV's in different facilities around the US and Canada. From a home-base location, I want to be able to control, add and delete the content added to each TV. Each location needs to have customized, local content which out staff will create. Content would be company news, announcements, etc. I would be great if it could also offer an automated news/weather feed as well.

No need for sound, no need for response to the content. Cheapest option isn't what I seek. Best performance at a reasonable price sounds more like it.

Anyone work with something like this that they like? Any opinions? Thank you!

Good timing.

I've just been through this exact situation. PM me if you want some more details.

In your case - don't settle for anything other than BrightSign. I setup 12 of their HD210W with BrightAuthor and BrightNetwork. www.brightsign.biz

Cheap? Not really. But ROCK solid. One unit has been playing a news/video loop non stop since September. Every other solution we tried crashed or burned out.

FWIW; BrightSign is the company that was approached by Netflix to make a box that morphed into ROKU, so this is not some small startup.

what networking will be available to each TV location? a TV with a cheap, low powered single board computer would do the trick - Raspberry Pi, even one of the cheap android units. (It has been a while since I was into wearable computers and the industrial SBCs but places like Advantech have long advertised boards for doing stuff like this).

We tried everything from diy units to a dedicated MacMini and WD Live boxes. Unless the product is designed for signage, it will eventually fail. There is nothing more annoying than the CEO walking into the office one morning and seeing the expensive signage system failed AGAIN...

Not sure if you need help from the LCD side of things but I work for a major LCD manufacturer and distributor - we are not in the consumer business (phones, tablets etc), we are in industrial solutions.

Examples of our work are all over Europe - pretty much every arrivals and departures screen you see in an airport is coming from my company. PM me if you need deteails.

Good timing.

I've just been through this exact situation. PM me if you want some more details.

In your case - don't settle for anything other than BrightSign. I setup 12 of their HD210W with BrightAuthor and BrightNetwork. www.brightsign.biz

Cheap? Not really. But ROCK solid. One unit has been playing a news/video loop non stop since September. Every other solution we tried crashed or burned out.

FWIW; BrightSign is the company that was approached by Netflix to make a box that morphed into ROKU, so this is not some small startup.


I second the Brightsign products. Had use them in a hotel and worked great. Plus the customer service was really good.

I haven't looked at the others, but I have inherited a few RiseVision units that seem to work well.