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| Innovative hardware architectures and expanding capabilities of multimedia applications blended with 2D/3D graphics, text, real time data, and broadcast options bring enhancements to advertising and digital signage that is immersive and eye catching. The availability of technologies like analytics, connected signage, smart signage, or blending multiple visual layers to create stunning visuals and 3D effects broaden the horizon for outbound/inbound communications. Few architectural models exist for the distribution of signage content and those encompass standalone units that have storage and processing, intelligent networked devices that receive distributed data from a server that process the data, or cloud based solutions that are a combination of the standalone and intelligent networked device. When combined with cloud computing, digital signage is more ubiquitous and allows users to store data in the cloud and remotely manage each digital signage unit via the internet. The rich multimedia capability and core technologies of digital signage systems will be the key for corporations, advertisers, and signage providers to proliferate these new technologies. |
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| VIA Embedded provides several unique approaches and platforms to target multiple levels of digital signage application 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, and multiple displays. Utilizing an S3-based graphics cards from VIA, customers can deploy video wall signage solutions, which can expand over four, eight, or more than eight independent displays in various configurations like 2x2, 4x2, 2x4, 3x3, 4x4, and more. VIA and S3 also provide an optimized multi-display driver and customized porting support to enable hardware acceleration of features on customer proprietary hardware designs. In the mid range VIA has the VIA VX900 based embedded boards that provide stunningly smooth HD video playback for H.264, MPEG-2, VC-1, WMV-HD and AVS. VIA also provides all-in-one options including the VB8003 embedded board supporting four simultaneous displays with each display capable of displaying an independent video, and AMOS-5110 system for six displays, four of which can display different content. |
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