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Featured Products
IAdea is a pioneer and leader in the digital signage media appliance market. Specialising in making dedicated media appliances that are ultra-reliable and deliver consistent playback quality on the big screen. IAdea pioneered the market of “digital signboards” as integrated displays with built-in playback capability for out-of-home applications.
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The IAdea XDS-245 Digital Signboard is a 24" widescreen, all-in-one SMIL programmable digital signage device with dedicated hardware-based High Defi...Read more
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The IAdea XMP-340 Wi-Fi Live Player Media Appliance is a solid-state SMIL programmable digital signage playback device for 1080p full-HD video playb...Read more
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The XDS-104 Digital Signboard 10˝ is a 10˝ widescreen, All-In-One digital signage display (digital photo frame / signboard) with touch button...Read more
SMIL as an Open Standard for Digital Signage
SMIL (pronounced “smile”) stands for “Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language” and defines scheduling (“Synchronised”), video, audio, images, text (“Multimedia”), multi-zone screen layout (“Integration”) in an XML-based text file format (“Language”). It is an open specification (royalty-free to use) created by the World-Wide Web Consortium, the same organisation responsible for defining the HTML language, an open standard for the Internet. Products that utilise SMIL are available from leading companies such as Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, and Real Networks.
Digital signage deals with scheduling multimedia files for playback on digital displays connected on an IP network. The industry has roots tracing back for a few decades, but has recently expanded rapidly due to the proliferation of low-cost flat panel displays that are easy to install and maintain in public space. As the market expands out of the “emerging” status, mainstream customers demand compatibility and interoperability among products from different vendors. SMIL appears to be an ideal technology to answer the needs of the industry.