All You Need To Know About Digital Signage

Digital signage not only gives you a perfect hi-definition platform for displaying new deals and offers, exchange rates and so on, but can also show up to date world weather reports with widgets, your web site, scrolling text, picture slide shows, video footage and much more all on one screen at the same time.

Digital signage changes the whole aspect of the screen in that it has moved away from just showing a single picture slide show or power point fed from a dedicated PC or laptop. It allows you to show multiple formats all at the same time by splitting the screen into different sized zones, designed by yourself or you can use the built in screen templates. Each of these zones can be used independently from the other.

The digital signage systems come in two different forms the first being a stand alone unit the size of a DVD player which can feed any size screen and multiple screens with the same image or the other is a screen with a built in signage unit and the screens sizes start from 42 inch up to 60 inch.

One thing you do have to bear in mind is that if you want to show lots of content which means lots of different zones then you will need a large screen, so its best to try and plan your screen template before you buy your screen.

The signage unit is basically a networkable PC with its own unique software which means you can log on to your signage system from any computer in the office or from home by entering the systems IP address in to your web browser.

The software allows you to easily drag and drop the files you want to show into your screen zones and you can also schedule each zones content which means you can decide what time, date and month the content is shown for and how long before it is updated and even changed to a different format. Once you have made changes on your software you can preview your changes before you push it out to your screens.

There are a variety of ways of mounting your screens from secure wall mounts, floor to ceiling pole mounts, window mounts and if you have the stand alone unit you can push the image through a projector for a large image or rear screen projection for a window.

The average cost of a digital signage screen is two thousands dollars but taking into account that there are no printing and design costs and these units are very easy to use so labour hours are down.

Also if you have more than one outlet with a screen in each you can control the content of each screen from one PC. I hope you have found this article helpful in towards understanding utilising digital signage. Digital signage is ideal for schools colleges retail outlets railway stations and travel agents. Allow the solution to provide information, advertise your own products and services and create a revenue stream by allowing others to advertise.