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Noventri unveils low-cost digital signage player

April 7, 2009

SMITHSBURG, Md. — Noventri has announced the addition of the SF-100 to its line of digital signage solutions. This compact unit features DVI resolutions of up to 1920×1200 for a true HD experience.

The SF-100 is the result of an ongoing effort to develop a low-cost VGA extender. Previously, Noventri used VGA extenders to push digital signage content to monitors over CAT5 within a network. This resulted in degradation of images or lack of high-quality HD. Rather than using extenders, Noventri's research and development department developed the SF-100, which simply brings high-resolution images directly to the digital signs.

The SF-100 is a small digital signage player that resides on the posterior of digital signage screens and contains a chip designed by Noventri for HD images to be sent to the display through Noventri's proprietary codec, SCODEC.

"We spent a lot of time developing a player that was low-cost enough to have a player for each screen when planning a large deployment," said Andrew Hoffman, vice president at Noventri. "With the SF-100 you get to maximize your quality. This product creates a wedge in the industry, since it lends itself to many 'simple signage' deployments or all-in-one solutions due to its size and cost."

The SF-100 is powered by Noventri Designer and Manager software to allow real time editing/changing and rendering of content. Each unit weighs just half a pound and is designed to easily mount on new and existing flat panel displays.