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Outdoor prototypes highlight Vertigo Displays' upcoming Las Vegas showcase
February 16, 2010
A highly-flexible integrated display unit specifically designed for the demands of the broad indoor digital signage market, and two new high-bright outdoor displays, are part of a showcase by Vertigo Digital Displays next week in Las Vegas, during the digital signage industry's largest tradeshow.
Vertigo's modular, integrated sign display is a self-contained 42-inch LCD-based solution that allows for easy configuration, servicing and component replacement, and protects against tampering and theft.
Contrary to most all-in-one units on the market, the Vertigo units have expansion slots that make field service and upgrades or replacements of PC and distribution hardware as simple as pulling one unit out and snapping a different one in. More typical all-in-one units have the PC components hard-wired into the unit, meaning at minimum the units must be taken down for servicing and usually need to be shipped to service depots – greatly increasing downtimes and service labor costs. The Vertigo units are fully ruggedized for use in public areas, have optional protective glass for the screens, and keyed security covers for the electronic components.
Several software and hardware vendors are already looking to take advantage of Vertigo's easy adaptability.
"The Vertigo modular integrated display is an ideal platform to combine with IAdea's open-standard digital signage media players to deliver an affordable, highly reliable and easy-to-deploy turnkey digital signage network appliance," said Rex Chen, executive vice-president of IAdea. "Major digital signage software companies are adopting the SMIL open platform supported by IAdea's devices."
The unit will be among several Vertigo products on display at a demo suite Feb. 24-25 in the Las Vegas Hilton, adjacent to the Las Vegas Convention Center. The facility is hosting the annual Digital Signage Expo trade show and conference. The demo and meeting suite is the latest stop this year on Vertigo's outdoor digital signage technology tour, having completed very successful showcases in New York and at the recent ISE trade show in Amsterdam.
Vertigo will be demonstrating a functional prototype of an IP65-rated outdoor display that has a 46-inch LCD capable of 1500-nits brightness. Intended for retail, digital-out-of-home and mass transit customers, the product is an updated re-design of the successful 46-inch outdoor display being seen by millions this month on the platforms of Vancouver's Skytrain system during the Olympic Winter Games, on a network run by Lamar Advertising Company. The new versions of the display double brightness, and now support both portrait and landscape applications. The units are available beginning in April.
The Vertigo team will also be previewing a 46-inch super-bright 2200-NITS LED edge-lit display, manufactured by Chilin, that is being designed into Vertigo's newest outdoor digital signs. Release is targeted for June 2010. These displays are direct sunlight-viewable and have all the weather-proofing and ruggedization common to Vertigo products.
"We have been previewing this product for the last few weeks in North America and Europe and have received tremendous interest and demand wherever we've gone," said Brad Gleeson, president and CEO of Vertigo Digital Displays. "We'll soon be opening the product for customer ordering and allocation, and we encourage network operators to come by and see what all the excitement is about."
Vertigo will also have a presence on the DSE trade show floor. Its 52-inch outdoor display unit used at Chicago rail platforms will be demonstrated in the booth of Vertigo software partner CoolSign.
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