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BrightSign upgrades software, firmware for digital signage

November 21, 2013

Solid-state digital signage media player provider BrightSign LLC recently announced new software and firmware for its BrightSign XD line of players, bringing significant enhancements including the ability to up-scale 1080p video content to 4K ultra HD, enhanced IP streaming and additional HTML5 support features.

These improvements, found in the official release of BrightAuthor 3.7 software and its companion 4.7 firmware, are available to all existing and future users free of charge, the company said.

Seiki Digital Inc., a 4K ultra display manufacturer, recently demonstrated the impact of BrightSign XD's video engine paired with the new software features at the IFA tradeshow in Berlin, according to the announcement.

"BrightSign's new 4K up-scaling feature enabled us to use settings in BrightAuthor to get the best possible resolution 1080p content playing on our new 4K ultra HD screens," Sung Choi, vice president of marketing for Seiki Digital, said in the announcement. "We demonstrated the same 1080p content on a full HD display side-by-side with one of our new 4K displays. This high-impact demonstration clearly showcased the superior picture quality delivered by BrightSign to our 4K screens."

Integration partner National Technology Associates also is using the enhanced IP streaming features to deliver video over IP to hundreds of displays in Station Casinos in Nevada, the company said.

And in-store signage at Batteries Plus locations uses BrightSign's hardware-accelerated HTML5 engine paired with built-in Web server to pull database content from BrightSign Network, taking full advantage of the new features.

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