Hi everyone.
Just wondering if someone can help with choosing a few different models they’d recommend for digital menu screens. I.e these screens will be on pretty much 10 hours a day has USB input (which is pretty much every tv these days I guess so we can stick a usb for the menu image), thin bezels and a thin tv overall is a plus!
Oh and decent price points (Max $500) would be ideal.
TIA
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So how does MagicInfo Lite work, does it cost money, does it need the server, is the server free?
Phillips P-line series.
Also look at WiFi based digital menus rather than usb.
What are wifi based digital menus? I can push an image menu to the TV via wifi?
In its' simplest form think streaming YouTube.
Way more functionality than just static images.
Ah yeah, I'd have like an animation kinda menu - where it's not just static images etc.
Do you know of any software/apps that I could push content to the TV's directly? Or are they all those extremely expensive paid apps?
Sorry for the questions! First time having a digital menu! haha.
We went through this experience when fitting out a new showroom with 3 TVs for showing videos - ultimately I decided to just get 3 x TCL 55" TVs for the job. They come with a 3-year warranty and were miles cheaper than any monitors branded as "digital signage displays". Simply update the video file on occasion when we need to change things up, plug the USB in and they're good to go.
Thank you! I was thinking of doing the same. Theres some super cheap 40" tv's with decent warranty and was thinking to just plug a USB in, and make some animated menus via canva. Haha.
I'm on a Mac and used Keynote (Powerpoint equivalent) to create a whole autoplaying video that I save as a movie file, save to USB and just plug in the USB. Works great!
I don't know if it's better, but I have had success with Raspberry Pi running pisignage.com and my only real worry is if people change the wifi password or access point name in the stores, meaning you have to go down and plug a keyboard into each Pi and enter the new SSID and password. Other than that though it is a good system, if a TV dies you don't need to set up the thing again, just plug the Pi into the new TV and make sure the TV has CEC options turned on if your Pi is controlling when the TV turns on and off.
But you really need to make sure the TV is bright enough and has good enough viewing angles. With a "commercial digital display" presumably those all have good brightness and viewing angles already without needing to research them, but who knows, some could kinda suck.
But Pis aren't exactly cheap, especially if you try to future proof yourself with Pi 4 with the max RAM. And setting them up costs you time. They dangle off the TV instead of being software built into TV, they require an extra power point, they get quite warm.
Also what kind of business or what are you promoting? Solutions for these things interests me a lot, imo a digital/video display still impresses even though they are bog standard these days.
If I were you I wouldn't just buy a run of the mill TV to have turned on all the time - buy a signage/commercial display, with a business warranty - here's an example (bit over budget but I'm sure you can find them cheaper)
https://www.mwave.com.au/product/samsung-qe43t-43-4k-uhd-167…