Dear Brudenell!
Thank you for accepting the digital signage information as your official answer.
I am reposting the material below for your convenience.
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Bobbie7
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What is digital signage?
http://dss.rell.com/what.asp
Digital Signage Providers
"Retailers use providers like Premier Retail Networks, DMX Music,
Creative Realities, and Screeny Media, a French company that's now
expanding to the U.S. to distribute content into stores. As in the
model used by big-box stores, shops download the video from a
centralized server maintained by the providers either via satellite or
broadband Internet connection, then feed it to the screens."
"SMART" SIGNAGE. But while San Francisco-based Premier Retail
Networks, the major provider to Wal-Mart and Best Buy, distributes
content and sells ad space to outside companies much like a normal TV
station would do, competitors charge a subscription fee and offer a
higher level of customization. Carlson Wagonlit Travel, an agency in
France, uses the Screeny Media service to display daily package deals
-- including images and video of destinations and current price
information -- on the plasma TVs in its store windows."
BusinessWeek
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2004/nf20041122_9652.htm
Read more about it here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signage |