Looking for afordable Digital Advertising Display

[deejayburnout]

Peeps.

i am looking for a couple of 24 to 30 inch Digital Advertising Displays that are affordable for my work. Need to buy 2 for use in the canteen to display safety messages.

Now the department that is paying for them doesn't have deep pockets so i dont know the exact budget, but i dont want to bring them a quote for £1300 for the ones that i have already found.

These badboys are what i have seen so far.

The screens need to be able to display jepg files in a slideshow.

Been thinking about monitors or TVs with USB and jpeg support but not sure on how good these will be.

Anyone got any ideas or experience.

Cheers

Chris

EDIT

excuse the poor spelling in the title.

[Rob_B]

You can just edit the title in advanced mode you know?

What do those ones you've chosen offer over a simple TV with USB jpeg playback as you mentioned? They have scheduling software etc but is that even needed? Sounds like it might not be?

Hell, you could buy flat TVs and Revos to provide input for less than those ones you've found!?

[b0redom]

2x 32" cheap LCD screens from Tesco:

http://www.tesco.com/direct/technika...w/210-7084.prd

2x Raspberry Pi in a case:

http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/displayPr...oss_price=true

Total cost < £500.

Then there's budget for wall brackets and configuring up the software. Something like a simple webserver running on a server somewhere with a PHP page which randomly selects a file from a folder to display with a 120 sec meta refresh.

[Barakka]

The main advantage of these "public display class" screens used to be their suitability to be used 24/7 and not burning out or getting major screen burn when used to display mostly static data, like Reuters feeds in a stockbrokers for example. But that was more in the days of plasmas and early LCD TVs, current LCD and LED TVs have life expectancies of anything up to 100,000 hours.

The advantage they can give now is having no controls on the front to be messed with, a tempered glass screen is much harder to break, and usually they're fan cooled so you don't need to leave 8" clearance all the way round like with consumer TV's.

[deejayburnout]

You can just edit the title in advanced mode you know?

What do those ones you've chosen offer over a simple TV with USB jpeg playback as you mentioned? They have scheduling software etc but is that even needed? Sounds like it might not be?

Hell, you could buy flat TVs and Revos to provide input for less than those ones you've found!?

Couldn't find the advanced tab.

The thing with the TVs/monitors is that most will only show the next image if you cycle through it with a controller. Not practical.

2x 32" cheap LCD screens from Tesco:

http://www.tesco.com/direct/technika...w/210-7084.prd

2x Raspberry Pi in a case:

http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/displayPr...oss_price=true

Total cost < £500.

Then there's budget for wall brackets and configuring up the software. Something like a simple webserver running on a server somewhere with a PHP page which randomly selects a file from a folder to display with a 120 sec meta refresh.

May be slighty cheaper but more pain in the ass for setting up and changing images.

The main advantage of these "public display class" screens used to be their suitability to be used 24/7 and not burning out or getting major screen burn when used to display mostly static data, like Reuters feeds in a stockbrokers for example. But that was more in the days of plasmas and early LCD TVs, current LCD and LED TVs have life expectancies of anything up to 100,000 hours.

The advantage they can give now is having no controls on the front to be messed with, a tempered glass screen is much harder to break, and usually they're fan cooled so you don't need to leave 8" clearance all the way round like with consumer TV's.

Very Fair point there. Never thought of that.

Cheers guys

[Rob_B]

Couldn't find the advanced tab.

The thing with the TVs/monitors is that most will only show the next image if you cycle through it with a controller. Not practical.

Edit> Go Advanced

Most TVs I've seen with jpeg playback do it as a slideshow or at least have the option, those Technikas probably do it, I've got an older one & I think even that does it.