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Swiss company releases new solid-state signage player
August 23, 2010
Swiss-based Noxel AG announced that it has released a tiny new solid-state digital signage player capable of playing out conventional and 3D video at full 1080P, and built to run flawlessly in the field for months or years.
Designed and manufactured by Noxel, the NXDS600 player couples a Blu-ray video engine with an IPTV-class processor to deliver a hardware solution for medium to large digital signage networks. The device is not a personal computer, which greatly increases reliability rates in the field and minimizes installation and management requirements.
There is no operating system in the NXDS600 units, meaning no extra cost for software or development, fast, consistent boot-ups and no more blue screens, says Group CEO Farbod Sadeghian.
The units — measuring just 150 mm by 128 mm wide and 40 mm high, and weighing just 950 grams — use embedded firmware that can be upgraded automatically and be both monitored and managed remotely. Video playback uses the latest Sigma Designs set top box-style video decoder which can smoothly play out high-definition MPEG-4.10 (H.264), SMPTE 421M (VC-1), AVS, WMV9, MPEG-4.2 and MPEG-2.
The integrated Sigma chip also easily handles 3D MPEG-2/H.264 Side by Side, Over/Under, Anaglyphic 3D, Polarized 3D and Autostereoscopic 3D content formats — tasks more typically reserved for costly, high-powered PCs.
The NXDS600 is also designed to both simplify and speed up deployments.
"As soon as a device is turned on and establishes an Internet connection, it will recognize the network setting, register itself to a designated server, and that's it. Nothing else needs to be done locally," Sadeghian said in the announcement. "People with no IT skills can plug in this unit and get it running."
The NXDS players have no moving parts, with industrial cooling fins on the casing dissipating any heat generated by the low-temperature processor. The players use solid-state SD and internal USB-based memory to remove any need for a rotating hard-disk drive, a common point of failure for PCs. The units also operate well within "green" technology standards, the company says. At high-bit rate, full-HD decoding, the players consume less than 5 watts. In standby mode, consumption is less than 2 watts. Typical PC-based digital signage players, by comparison, generally require more than 60 watts. The players are part of the Xtream series of players being developed by Noxel, which has been designing, engineering and manufacturing media technology and IT solutions for more than a decade from its base in southern Switzerland.
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