If you want to hear from your peers in digital signage and keep up with the latest trends without the sales job then you should check out any of the Digital Signage Federation’s free Google Hangouts featuring DSF member experts who freely share their thoughts and views on a variety of topics at the forefront of this rapidly changing industry.
This month you have already missed. on July 13, ‘Selecting the Right Media Player’ – this hangout saw featured speakers from Intel, Canonical, and The Book PC sharing their insights on everything from hardware and operating systems to software and deployment tips. You can see the hangout above.
Some of the questions from the audience included:
- What considerations should be made when thinking of using consumer grade streaming media players in enterprise digital signage?
- What are the general / ball park pricing points for the various types of media players?
- Are there limitations to what each of them can do?
- Some players (usually for video walls) lack proper HTML5/CSS content support and hardware acceleration for animations. Can you please weigh in on player options that either allow Chrome or have HTML5 support out-of-the-box?
- Are there any types of players that are applicable to elevator displays?
- etc.
Coming up next, on August 18 at 2pm EDT is ‘Art on the Big Screens in the NYC Subway’. In this hangout you will hear from members of the MTA Art and Design team talking about their award winning Digital Arts Program taking in the NYC subway system.
During the conversation the panel will explore:-
- How the digital art program began
- How the MTA allocates funding for the art program
- The art program, which is diverse across graphics, music, poetry, photography etc, and the panel will explain how it intersects with digital.
- Insights into the future plans for the program