Pushbutton & Touch Screen Digital Video/Audio Playback
for Museums & Exhibits - Digital Signage
It's like a Solid State DVD Digital Video Exhibit

For many years DVD has been the mainstay of push button museum and exhibit video presentation.  Coupled with BCD's VC-16b pushbutton controller, DVD and now Blu-Ray players have been "Pushbutton Interactive" in many exhibits.   Press button #3 to play video #3.  

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Disc Players Die !
BCD's VC-16b controllers don't fail.  Never has one failed inthe field.  DVD players, however, usually die within 12-18 months,especially those in exhibits played 8 hrs per day, 7 days per week. Usually it's the spindle motor, the one that spins the disc.  Our clients had the choice of replacing inexpensive players on a regular basis or using a $1,000 industrial player. The long-term cost was atoss-up.

Solid State Digital Video Players Have No Moving Parts
Enough said.

Solid State Digital Video Players Play HD
The picture quality is amazing!  HD Digital Video Players from BCD playMPEG-2, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 files through RGB(VGA) and HDMI connectors. Analog Component Y, Pb, Pr is available on some players

• 1920 x 1080
• 1280 x 720
• 740 x 480
• 320 x 240

Scaling is automatic to fill the screen or can be set to letterbox 4:3 on a 16:9 screen.
Audio Out is 1/8" Mini Stereo.  Media Storage is SD card.

Pushbutton Interactive Video Players (Push Button, if you like)
Sadly,we're selling against our own product.  We have been somewhat hesitant to promote Digital Video Players because we make more money selling VC-16b controllers.  The fact is that for most applications, a digital player is simply the right thing to do for a digital video exhibit.  Our Digital Players have GPI inputs for up to 8 push buttons and we can supply programming to map button presses for up to 8 different video files.... plus an Attract Loop.  Touch screen support, too!

So the player shows a repeating attract loop of video, often short segments from the content videos.   Text is usually superimposed on the video saying something like "Press Button for Video."  (You have to say that or else museum visitors can stare at the Attract Loop then walk away without pressing any buttons!)   

We can even emulate traditional DVD Menu selection: Up/Down/Enter.  Three buttons for as many scenes as you need.   It's special order programming.

Touch Screen Interactive
Digital Video Players from BCD can be programmed to accept triggers from USB touch screens, typically from ELO.   We create "touch zones" using a still image or motion video as the background.  Each image can have its own touch areas for nested menus so users can "drill down" to specific content.

Digital Signage
Oh wow!   Zones, zones zones!  Each area showing something different. Simultaneous video, text, images and RSS feeds from your web site. Automatic content updates over the Internet.   Check back here often orcall us about flexible & affordable digital sign players. (Psssst.... it's the same digital video player box.)