15th May 2017

LED vs OLED vs QLED – Which one should you be using?

Buying digital signage should be easy, but it’s not. That’s kind of why we exist, if I’m honest. We make it easier for you because we understand your apprehension. You’re over here trying to choose a simple screen and you’re confronted with all these LED-based buzzwords and it just gets more and more confusing, until you find yourself ugly crying on the floor, tangled up in HDMI cables  and wishing the digital signage fairy would just buzz along and make the decision for you.

Well, today’s your lucky day. The digital signage fairy is here to buzz her way through buzzwords and marketing jargon and give you some real talk about what kind of digital displays would be best for your business; LED, OLED or QLED.

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12th April 2017

Should you use System on Chip or a Media Player?

This is the first big decision you need to make once you decide to partake in the digital signage dance off. Popular entries in the digital signage dance off include the menu board mambo and the window display waltz, but perhaps you’re looking to trip the light fantastic with a retail screen rumba? Well, you’ll need to choose between System on Chip and Media Players.

What does this even mean? Well, I’m happy you asked. It really helps me pad out this blog post. Most of the screens we deal with are SoC. That stands for System on Chip, which is great because if you sound it out phonetically it sounds like ‘sock’ and socks are great for dancing especially if you have one of those shiny dance floor dealies. You can really slide along like Tom Cruise in that movie with his underwear… Wait, I’ve disappeared on a tangent. Digital signage, SoC, got ya. I’m back.

As most of our screens are SoC, you might just be thinking, “cool, they know what they’re talking about, they’re Digital Messaging Company. I’ll just go with SoC and get on with my digital dancing”. This would be foolish as you need to know if SoC is actually the right choice for you. Here’s what you need to consider:

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17th February 2017

Ultra-D glasses-free 3D technology

3D glasses are a problem if you usually wear prescription lenses. After finally becoming secure enough in your appearance to withstand the hackneyed taunts of “FOUR EYES” coming from the wise guys down the back of the cinema, you then have slide on yet ANOTHER pair of glasses over the top of your regular pair just to enjoy the extraordinarly pointy 3D effects in whatever seminal piece of 3D cinema you’ve chosen to view. Not even a special edition refrigerated Fonzie is cool enough to withstand the taunts of “SIX EYES” that will now be screamed at you by the public at large.

It’s even worse if you’re a big U2 fan with a Bono complex causing you to need to wear sunglasses inside when faced with a stressful situation. Suddenly you’re an “EIGHT EYES” and you have as much social currency as a spider. One of those big hairy ones, with thick legs that dart out of the corners you thought were safe while you’re precariously holding a stack of antique crystal. The ones that run directly at you while fear freezes you to the ground and your only chance of salvation comes from screaming at an inhumanly high pitch in the hope that a dog runs in to save you. We’ve all seen one of those spiders. It’s a scary beast.

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