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New PADS4 digital signage software includes HTML5 solution

Eindhoven, Netherlands-based Net Display Systems' latest PADS4 software release offers a wide range of new opportunities for digital signage solutions using HTML5-capable devices, the company said.

January 13, 2015

Eindhoven, Netherlands-based Net Display Systems, a global provider of smart digital signage software, has announced details on its latest PADS4 software release. This release offers a wide range of new opportunities for digital signage solutions using HTML5-capable devices, the company said.

With the growing demand for low-cost digital signage and the increased availability of more affordable hardware, NDS released software that includes an entirely new PADS4 HTML5 Viewer. This versatile HTML5 Viewer plays rich content on a wide variety of displays that come with a player device supporting HTML5, the company said.

As well as playback of Web content and video, interactivity has been added to the solution's palette to design presentations for browser-based players. The software allows end-users to create layered presentations, the company said. For example, they can include an interactive button showing a scheduled-meetings overview on a digital door sign while displaying current meeting details retrieved from a room reservation data source.

"Unlike many other HTML5 digital signage products, the PADS HTML5 Viewer is a real application, not a streaming solution," CEO Willie-Jan Bons said in the announcement. "This offers PADS users huge benefits … Our new HTML5 Viewer has a big impact on reducing network traffic, and in case of network failures the screen of a PADS HTML Viewer will not switch to a black screen. All content will continue to be displayed as scheduled."

According to the announcement, NDS is offering a free 30-day trial of the new release.