How much control do you have over your LCD Controller?

January 17th, 2011 No comments

Digital View’s range of LCD Controllers are designed to allow flexibility of control. As well as providing standard on screen display for adjusting settings at a user level, control can be gained by remote control, serial port commands or over ethernet. You also have a choice of button accessories and other addons to add extra capabilities to your display product. Read more…

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Networking Digital Posters

November 4th, 2010 No comments

With a new series of VideoFlyer digital posters hitting the market, it’s time to look at some of the features. Most notably networking. Read more…

Designing Large Format Display Systems

November 4th, 2010 1 comment

Our technical team have been doing an amazing job developing our new Integre Chassis product line, and yesterday we got to look at the range. Seeing is believing! These chassis are the formula one of openframe display product realization. So what did I learn… ? Read more…

Digital Signs & The Psychology Of The Poster

October 29th, 2010 No comments

Attending The Screen breakfast briefing in London this morning raised an interesting point that probably gets overlooked about general perceptions of signage. Ever wondered about the factors that lead viewers to give their attention to a digital sign? Here’s a thought for you. Read more…

LCD Panel Database On iPhone

October 27th, 2010 No comments

Digital View have migrated the PanelX LCD panel database to an iPhone version, this is available for free from iTunes though you can see detailsĀ  here. An updated version will be available soon providing a database update function followed by more advanced filtering.

In part this app was done for fun and as an exercise preceding a few other mobile applications but hopefully it is also useful. Suggestions for improvement are always welcome.

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The big deal about serial port commands

October 15th, 2010 1 comment

Professional grade LCD Controllers support functions and provide features that display designers can use to build extremely sophisticated LCD products. With so many features available sometimes some of the powerful features slip under the radar and don’t get exploited to their full potential. In this post I want to put a few thoughts about the serial port forward, as this has to be one of the most flexible features available.

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Viability for digital screens in vending machines

October 12th, 2010 2 comments

Time was, using digital displays in vending machines was a tricky business. Screens were heavy and expensive to employ. As technology moves on and standards improve it is becoming easier to integrate screens with anything. Vending machines are no exception. Why bother though? Read more…

Digital Signage & Creating Audio

October 9th, 2010 No comments

A lot of digital signage applications do not use audio and indeed very many of the systems Digital View as asked for do not have audio as part of the specification. However when audio is suitable the issue is where to get it from, this is certainly a challenge for me. I quite like stock audio such as from iStockphoto and playing around with programs like Garageband (Mac only) but it seems there are other options.

One product I found that makes it about as easy as it can get is Abaltat Muse (Mac & PC), this generates audio to go with a video based on the duration of the video and the colors. Shown here is an example of a video (from iStockphoto) that I ran through Abaltat Muse:

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Digital Signage – making the right purchase

October 5th, 2010 No comments

Increasing sales and customer loyalty is the dream of every business owner. Of course there are many ways to go about this, but I want to give you some thoughts on how to go about finding the best digital signage package for you.

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Digital posters and a little thought

September 30th, 2010 No comments

Digital signage is everywhere, some of it amazingly good, some not so good. What separates the good from the bad and what is being done to build on successes? Read more…

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