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Techie Question: Do you need to use a UPS for digital signage?

DigitalSignageBlog — Sat, 15 May 2010 09:34:59 +0000

Coming from an IT background I know how important it is to ensure your system is shut down gracefully otherwise you’ll end up damaging your operating system and application. This is where a UPS may come in handy. UPS stands for Uninterruptible power supply and is used as an emergency power source. It is typically used to protect computers, or equipment in data centres or other electrical equipment where an unexpected power disruption could cause injuries, fatalities, serious business disruption and/or data loss. Depending on the size of the UPS battery they generally provide about 5-10 minutes of power.

So my question to those techies out there is, do you need to use a UPS for digital signage? Are any companies out there using a UPS for their digital signage players or screens?

Feel free to submit your answer as a comment.

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Techie Question: Using a DVI to VGA convertor with a VGA CAT5E or CAT6 extenders, does this work?

DigitalSignageBlog — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:34:50 +0000

For those techies out there or for someone who has already tried this, does a DVI to VGA converter work with a VGA extender.

So as an example, we have a digital signage player or PC that has a DVI port ONLY. We plug a DVI to VGA extender, so the output is VGA. We then use a pair of VGA to CAT5E or CAT6 extenders and connect the other end to the monitor that is VGA. Does this work?

We would like to hear other techies out there what the result would be or whether this is technically possible.

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Techie question: Digital Signage Player Operating temperature

DigitalSignageBlog — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:30:18 +0000

This is a questions for all those techies out there: How does the operating temperature effect the digital signage player and what is the recommended operating temperature?

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