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| Digital Signage |
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| Power up Your Digital Signage Performance |
Digital signage is a rapidly expanding and quickly evolving approach to communications technologies, often implemented as an interactive platform for broadcasting information to targeted individuals in corporations, schools, museums, retailers, hospitals, hotels, airports, and train stations.
VIA provides a complete range of off-the-shelf and ultra compact platforms that enable small footprint and low profile systems with feature-rich functionality ideal for digital signage applications. VIA’s complete x86 digital signage solutions enable any retailer/advertiser or organization to experience the benefits of multimedia-enhanced digital signage networks.
VIA also provides software packages for digital signage to enable short time-to market for customers, improve security without slow response times, and manage easily their design, content and schedule in displays. The latest Android-supported x86 boards offer even greater flexibility and cost saving advantages for digital signage applications. With support for hardware, software and system designs, VIA digital signage solutions enable customers to build a high level of reliable, flexible and ready-to-use total package systems to allow faster time-to-market, and maximize ROI. |
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| Where VIA Digital Signage Solutions Apply? |
| VIA digital signage solutions provide several unique approaches and platforms to target multiple levels of digital signage applications from basic single display solutions, mid-range dual displays, all the way to high-end platforms that bring together multiple HD video streams, graphics, analytics, across multiple displays. Leveraging VIA's low power components and ruggedized system designs, the VIPRO series provide optimized performances for a wide variety of embedded, multimedia applications. VIA also has all-in-one options including industrial-grade AMOS series and commercial-grade ARTiGO series supporting hardware acceleration of H.264 for full HD 1080p, MPEG-2 & WMV9 display, a wide range of operating temperature, and comprehensive I/O functions to service customers or VIA embedded boards provide the ultimate platform for systems where size, low profile and power efficiency can be combined with a rich entertainment experience. |
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For more alternative VIA solutions for digital signage, please check the flyer of VIA Embedded Solutions for Digital Signage here.
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| VIA DS System |
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■ ARM Cotex A9 SoC
■ Up to 4GB flash
■ Up to 1GB DDR3 SDRAM
■ Four USB, DVI or HDMI
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System-Ready Digital Signage Solutions
VIA Magic Box - A one stop digital signage solution with customization service |
| VIA Magic Box is an advanced digital signage solution developed by VIA Technologies in collaboration with S3 Graphics comprised of a VIA embedded system and content management software called MagicView™. In comparison with other digital signage solutions on the current market which require high-performance CPU capability which lead to high costs to build up systems, VIA Magic Box supports hardware decoding acceleration technology and enhanced HD video playback of the most demanding HD video formats, including, WMV9, VC1 and H.264 at screen resolutions of up to 1080p. |
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| Software: MagicView™ |
 MagicView™ is a powerful and flexible content management platform for designing, distributing and displaying digital signage. In addition to the standard features, it provides additional outstanding functions such as schedule management, client monitoring, reporting and secure network. MagicView™ can be applied on a variety of digital signage systems, from single-computer systems to scalable distributed systems, allowing you to control from one to a thousand digital displays at any time, from anywhere.
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| VIA Magic Box Standalone Version |
VIA Magic Box Server Version |
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The VIA Magic Box Standalone version is ideal for small businesses, restaurants and retail stores/shops which allows for simple content design, management and scheduling without the need for network connections. The VIA Magic Box Standalone version includes a VIA ARTiGO Mini-PC, Magic Box Standalone content management software (VIA MagicView™ controller) and VIA Magic Box Standalone client software (Windows Embedded Standard 7 pre-installed).
Key Features
- 1. User-friendly interface
- 2. Easy schedule management
- 3. Supports system reboot and shut down
- 4. Supports Sleeping mode/wake up function
- 5. Client status/history review
- 6. Monitors hardware function
- 7. Media library management
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The VIA Magic Box server version is designed as a large scale digital signage solution for companies, factories and schools to securely manage and schedule content for multiple clients and displays within their network. The VIA Magic Box Server version includes VIA ARTiGO Mini-PC, VIA Magic Box Server content management software (VIA MagicView™ Controller), VIA Magic Box Server client software (Windows Embedded Standard 7 pre-installed), Media server software and control server software.
Key Features
- 1. Online environment
- 2. User-friendly interface
- 3. Easy schedule management
- 4. Supports system reboot and shut down
- 5. Supports sleeping mode/wake up function
- 6. Client status/history review
- 7. Monitors hardware function
- 8. Media library management
- 9. Dedicated media server
- 10. Dedicated control server
- 11. Management through multiple controllers
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| VIA Embedded Digital Signage ISV Program |
VIA welcomes 3rd party software and system integration partners to join us to develop customized solutions based on the VIA ARM-based Digtial Signage (DS) system. If you would like to learn more about the VIA Embedded Digital Signage ISV (Independent Software Vendor) program, please contact us at: armds@viatech.com. We look forward to cooperating with you to create the next generation of dynamic digital displays.
Development Kit is available.
If you are interested in purchasing a VIA DS ARM based system development kit to develop with, please download an application form from here, then send the completed form to armds@viatech.com. After being accepted you will be asked to sign an NDA in order to receive your code to purchase the VIA DS development kit through the VIA store.
Software Partner - Capital Networks
Capital Networks, a leader in broadcast media and software development for digital signage since 1991, has teamed up with VIA through the VIA Embedded Digital Signage ISV Program. The VIA DS will leverage Capital Networks Audience for Android software to create a complete Android digital signage solution for an ever widening range of applications in the digital market from kiosks, POS systems, video walls, and menu boards to TVOIP, cloud streaming, and Out of Home Advertising across a broad spectrum of retail, hospitality, education, and entertainment environments.
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