Early this morning there were rumours of a so-called ‘Kodak Sneak Peek Webinar‘ from a number of VARs we know in EMEA and it didn’t take much poking around to find more detail.
[1]Picture Frames or more?
The Kodak digital signs will be managed by CoolSign – the idea being we’d expect to power on the sign, connect to the internet via WiFi and manage the media. No doubt CoolSign will provide real-time health status and playback reporting as well.
With #iseurope starting on Tuesday we figure this will be announced Monday and no doubt shown on their (Haivision) stand in Amsterdam. Haivision are on stand 10L136 [2].
3 Comments To "Kodak Gets Into Bed With CoolSign"
#1 Comment By Jeremy Gavin On 28 January 2011 @ 18:36 @817
I’d love to see this. I’m surprised we have not seen more usage of wifi photo frames as digital signage. How else could you get a player and screen for less than $250 that can be updated remotely. This is a perfect solution for checkout counters, hospitality check-ins, endcaps and even on table top in a restaurant.
#2 Comment By Jason Cremins On 29 January 2011 @ 13:16 @595
Will be interesting to see if Kodak open up their Digital Signs using a common standard so that they can be used with a range of software platforms and not just one.
IAdea SMIL devices are now available in 10 to 24 sizes and compatible with a growing lists of software vendors with both saas and on-premise offerings.
If Kodak want to shift the maximum possible units in the digital signage sector, they will need to expand beyond one single software offering.
#3 Comment By ANdre Ingram On 28 February 2011 @ 19:01 @834
The Kodak deal has the coolsign player software and license included in the cost and the hardware has been optimised to suit the application.