Review: The Digital Signage Forum March 22, 2005

Product: 10.4 inch Flash Based Digital Signage Solution

Ultra bright and high contrast LCD screen

Built-in Flash player displays animated pictures created by Macromedia™ Flash editor

Built-in image viewer displays non-animated pictures (BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF)

User definable story board allow users to control display sequence, frequency and duration

No damage from sudden power failure

Optional Touch-Screen pad for user interaction

Optional high quality(24bit) MP3 sound player

Optional network devices

SIMPLICITY

Take 3 seconds to power up

Create your own contents with Macromedia™ Flash software

Deliver contents via removable Smart Media Card

Quick setup (Plug and Play)

Quick deployment

Robust, Stable, Zero down time

Simple hardware design means less point of failures

LOW COST OF OWNERSHIP

All-in-One unit

Consumes power only 1/10 of Personal Computer system (6 watts as tested)

Digital Signage Forum Review: Sunglasses Needed For This Bright Star!

     MIRACLE’S future is so bright; they may have to wear shades!

Developers from MIRACLE Integration Systems, Inc. have devised a flat panel flash based player with removable smart card media that acts as a virtual wire and has a memory card that stores 128 MB of flash based moving text and picture content that accomplishes this task elegantly. The first model was complete in July 2003. The unit ships with the screen, power cord, ac adapter, and media Gear® 7-in-4 Flash Memory Reader / Writer w/USB cable.

The unit we reviewed was the basic 10.4 inch screen with the capability of attaching to just about any shelf or pole structure without the need for extra wall or ceiling mounting hardware.  The product was packaged extremely well for shipping and took us under a minute to set up to start seeing signage ads. The unit takes under 4 seconds to power up and starts cycling once it is switched on.

Built with heavy gauge metal, this unit would put a Tonka Truck® to shame. This unit is great for high traffic and rough indoor applications such as restaurants, car dealerships and the new and ever so popular restroom application where durability is a must.  Our power meter registered a low power rating versus traditional digital signage screen solutions with a tenth of the power being consumed (an impressive 6 watts). The outer thumbscrews gave us the capability to change the bezel image which was a nice bonus.

Since this display has a compact, proprietary operating system which pushes the flash file via a RISC based CPU instead of the usual Windows® based system it is not susceptible to crashing or virus attacks. This eliminates the need for dedicated IT personnel, and is able to continually churn out as many ads as your designer can come up with. This equates to a pretty nice cost savings over time. Actually, if you are handy in Macromedia Flash®, then you can eliminate the designer as well! Simply create your ad, send it to the memory stick, plug it into the display and off you go! It’s that simple. The real beauty of the built-in image viewer is that it can display non-animated picture (BMP, JPEG, GIF, and TIFF) files as well.