The software is made to sell people things using moving pictures in waiting areas. Waiting for a bus, waiting for a plane, waiting to buy a bag of chips and a slurpee. The software is about as mundane and inspired as those places.
If you want a nice stock ticker (because that's what busy people demand) and a brightly coloured billboard suggesting the soup and sandwich special at the "transportation station snack bar" then this software for you.
This software is decidedly not for public galleries driven by an education and conservation mandate using HD footage.
It works but barely. Whatever you want to do, it will do, but it will make you work for it. Of all the things I want to time on, making presentation software work is not one of them.
Right now we have a touchscreen and a plasma running off of one computer. To get the touchscreen to update the plasma is pretty much impossible. I can do it in the omnivex (yeah I'm calling you out Omnivex) architecture but it's going to make me work for it. Basically it will take about 5-6 hours to set up, then every change thereafter will take about an hour. I don't want that. I want to be able to do it quickly. I want to be able to update often.
I want the ease of putting a 7 day weather report in there. Thankfully the software makes weather reports easy, unfortunately our cichlid exhibit is not currently in need of weather reports.
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Just wondering if you've looked at any opensource products?
Have a look at SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=signage
Also this site looks promising:
http://www.digitalsignageforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=ed55599ee8b6637c73ee693809e1433e&f=7
Omnivex?? There is your mistake. You should really take a look at the Scala software, must easier to change dynamic content on the fly.
It's a total love hate with Omnivex. It does some things very well. It is very reliable in those things that it does well.
We're currently evaluating. We're looking at all the products out there, including Omnivex, and deciding if we are going to stay with them or transition to a new product.
I find that digital signage forum hard to read Obvious. There is good info in there, but something about that site offends my eyes.
I just found your blog and thought you would want to know about a good resource for finding digital signage hardware and software vendors.
Digital Signage Universe is a full portal with a directory and a forum.
http://www.digitalsignageuniverse.com/
http://digitalsignageuniverse.tv/ (Directory)
http://digitalsignageuniverse.net/ (Forum)
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