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That would be just a monitor, wouldn't it? I thought most of these were just monitors with devices vesa mounted on the back...
A lot of the newer commercial displays have signage players built into them. The content is probably cached locally.
I've seen Intel NUCs hanging from the backs of signage displays in Macca's when I lived in Melbourne. I guess pushing updates to the menus would be easier. My company used Raspberry Pis in our showrooms - admittedly it was implemented horribly. They all used SD cards which ended up failing due to write wear.
Interesting about the new models, would be keen to get my hands on one π
No. The distinguishing feature between a monitor and a TV is that a TV has a tuner built into it.
There are other things like the variety of inputs and screen position settings on monitors, but those are mostly minor.
Who uses a tuner these days? Modern TV signal is just via Ethernet, and if you call that a tuner then my phone is a modem
Anyone who uses an antenna. There's a bunch of decent channels, like the news, you can get with an OTA antenna.
No. What you just described is "modern cable TV". OTA channels are digital signals also.
Anyway to fix that to become a tv? I once bought a tv that had at one time been used for this purpose. Once it was unplug from the device storing the info it just became a flat tv.
Whatβs there to fix? Just hook up a video input and youβre golden.
I helped a friend hook one of these up to an old Linux machine. Super easy to do. Just uses it to watch Netflix or YouTube
Could you maybe just connect a cheap android box and use it like that?
Or anything with an HDMI plug.
my previous flatmate bought one of these digital menus used and it had a single DP input, he used a Chromecast and a box that extracted HDMI audio via TOSLINK and then a HDMI to DP converter for the panel. It worked great and it was a very cheap solution for the time.
That's a contradiction. A single double?
DisplayPort not DoublePoops lol
Double Penetration*
Sir this is a ~~Wendy's~~ Tim Horton's
Some of them are more like a giant, non-touch-screen tablets than monitors.
This probably just has this image saved into memory, and they can easily make it display something else.
Easily?
Yes.
There will either be a remote or just buttons on the display itself. You can select the source of what's being displayed from a USB drive or SD card, that's how it's displaying the current image. Some of them have built-in casting options like chromecast.
If it doesn't have something built it, it will have HDMI in, which makes a chromecast, roku, firestick, or even just a PC a quick option.
If it was stolen, it probably won't come with a remote. And don't many of these devices not have buttons anymore?
Commercial displays often still have buttons, at least on units that are designed to go inside.
It also doesn't say that this was stolen. It could have been a unit replaced during a remodel.
Oh, right, a "remodel" just like the one that "fell off the truck"
It was stolen.
Is the image burning into the screen not a concern on these though?
This displays often are not static, often displaying short video ads for seasonal items which take up the whole monitor.
Probably less than the burn-in of a taskbar or window header
Reminds me of our old typing PC with the WordPerfect header and footer burned into the orange phosphor
That colour had a smell, like a library.