subject: Providing An Affordable Dynamic Advertising Project [print this page] Providing An Affordable Dynamic Advertising Project
When a dynamic advertising project is being planned, one of the main concerns is the budget, but there are ways to get a digital signage project up and running for very little money.
Media player.
The first choice is whether or not to use a standalone media player or a built in media player, the costs are extreme, but the standalone option are the more affordable but this does come at a price, you cannot remotely upload any content, other than by connecting a wireless mobile dongle to the USB port and uploading that way, normally content is updated manually with a flash drive.
Wired or wireless media player.
This will be based around your aplication and if a hard wired solution can used this would be the most durable; however in some instances wireless would be better. As you can imagine a wireless media player is more costly due to the extra components that makes it wireless.
The fundamental difference is that on an all in one media player, the media player stores content on a storage card, normally a CF card, however a wired and wireless media player stores the content on its own integral disc drive. If you are looking for a solution that needs little updating the LCD advertising display is ideal, however if you are working on deploying 200 screens you would certainly want to be using either a wired or WIFI media player.
Possible solution?
The cheapest solution is a digital poster, as these come complete with a screen and this also has an on screen menu to program so that you can arrange the content as you wish and these all in one units are around the same price as a digital media player, depending up on the size of the display for the poster.
