Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
BrightSign’s CEO Jeff Hastings wanted us to know about the company’s two new partners: Sirius XM for Business, and Appspace.
Available for the first time ever to customers using a BrightSign music player, SiriusXM Music for Business pairs SiriusXM’s wide variety of commercial-free music from every genre with BrightSign’s music player to deliver an affordable, powerful solution for businesses to enhance the customer experience in-store and on the phone. For $25 a month, two channels can play over BrightSign players.
“While we’re widely known for our video solutions, many of our customers use our players to manage audio content within their businesses,” said Hastings. “And, yes, customers can overlay messages when necessary.”
Appspace Inc. and BrightSign are working together to integrate the Appspace digital content management and delivery software to run on BrightSign players- we recently used Appspace on a large project and have to say that it is absolutely one of the worst CMS systems we have ever used, Ed.
Hastings also told us about the company’s technology upgrade for 4K that does HDR (High Dynamic Range – the new standard for HDR video).
“All the big TV brands are using BrightSign players for HDR,” he said. BrightSign’s high end 4K player supports H.265 (compression format) which allows, at the screen, 60 frames per second on the video decode.
March 24th, 2016 at 17:18 @762
The Sirius XM relationship is something very useful for integrators, and I am excited about that.
AppSpace, not so much.
Once had the misfortune of trying to integrate that at a County Government building.
Worst experience I ever had trying to integrate a Signage and CMS.
Try doing portrait mode& touch control with the Cisco box mode!
We pulled it out, and deployed Scala. A far more capable system.
How AppSpace go so many clients is beyond me.