Digital signage software, players,
and display screen comparisons

Digital signage software, players and display screen comparisons

NDS PADS software Samsung MagicInfo Sony digital signage board

Below are a few digital signage products that we have reviewed, which you may find of interest.
FR EE digital signage guide.

Wedgwood, an accredited ISO9001 company, helps you source digital signage software and the display screens from a range of brand manufacturers, to best suit your individual needs. Wedgwood does not specifically recommend any one product; this information is simply to try and show you what is available, and is in no way a comprehensive review of all the digital signage packages on the market. For a full list of all AV products please click here. Digital signage menu page

Samsung MagicInfo digital signage

Digital signage can be used for advertising, branding or avoiding public confusion by providing up-to-date information, such as flight info, local info, news, weather and terminal map, as shown in the picture above.

With Samsung's MagicInfo software, you can remotely control a wide variety of functions such as the management of the signage content schedule (which lets you decide what content you want to display and when), colour scheme and volume control, as well as input transferring. The software is designed to automatically alert you if the display is not working properly, and you can check the display's status and conduct a self diagnostics remotely via a virtual connection.

Samsung MagicInfo is easy to use. You create your content, i.e. image files, music files, etc. Next, you schedule the content, for example, showing one signage content between 9-11am, and another between 11-4pm, and on what days of the week and for how long. Finally, you then publish your digital signage message to the Samsung LCD screen.

You may have one lot of content being shown in reception area, another in the restaurant and one in the staff room. When you want to add another screen at a future date, you simply connect it to the network.

We are able to offer a pre-sales demonstration to show you how MagicInfo software can be tailored to your requirements. To make an appointment, at no cost to yourself, please call us on 01754 769967.

Samsung LCD monitors with and without MagicInfo

SONY digital signage

Sony digital signage board

Sony have made digital signage easy for you; all you need is a Sony LCD or plasma public display, choosing a screen size 32, 40, 42 or 50-inch. Then slot in a Sony digital signage board, such as BKM-FW50, into the back of the display and you can create your own presentation stored on CompactFlash media.

If you want to get your message across with an entry level simple system, the digital signage board shows still images or video clips. However, you if want to show your message on several Sony screens you will need a digital signage board in each screen.

You create content on your PC, transfer to your CompactFlash memory card and place into the slot, to display content on the screen. No network infrastructure is required. Any PC on the network can display its desktop content on the display (not suitable for fast moving images), as shown in the picture above. With VNC Freeware no additional software is required.

Display settings such as brightness, power on/off, can be adjusted remotely. Content formats are movie MPEG2, picture JPEG (PowerPoint slides are saved as JPEG), audio MP3. The play list allows you to play content in whichever order you prefer.

You can only use the Sony digital signage board, on Sony plasma or LCD monitors only. One board per screen required.
Sony widescreen LCD monitors
LCD monitors
Digital signage players and boards

PADS stand alone digital software

PADs digital software, sold separately or pre-installed on a dedicated PC

PADS (public area display system) software has three elements: designer, manager and viewer. Designer, which is easy to use design and layout application, is Windows based, so the icons look familiar. You can select .PDFs, JPEGs, movie files or add text messages to compose your messages. You can even link databases. There are no licence issues on the designer part of the software, so several people could have designer on their PC to design messages, but you can only send the message to one display screen using the viewer part of the software, per licence. The other element of the software is manager, which lets you schedule and send presentations to multiple screens within a 24 hour period.

When we used PADS, we started with a blank page, dragged a text box on the page, right clicked to get into the text box properties and wrote a simple greeting message. We then selected the .PDF icon and brought in a .PDF, added a movie, and then clicked preview to see our message. We then did another message on page 2, and could have one page running for a certain time period, with the second page following at a given time. A 30 day free trial download is available for PADS.