Player supports Intel's open pluggable specification

The HO523 is based on BrightSign’s Series 3 HD player and features a JAE TX25 plug for connecting to interior display components (video, USB, serial, etc.) The outside edge has industry-standard connectors, as well as specialised device control and feedback interfaces.

More than two million displays with an OPS slot have been sold thus far worldwide. Of the seven manufacturers that offer commercial-grade displays with OPS, NEC is leading the charge with almost half of the total OPS display sales worldwide.

The HO523 can be seen at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) in Amsterdam, February 7^th-10^th 2017, on BrightSign’s stand 8-K240, the Elo stand 10-N148 and the NEC Display Solutions stand 5-R24. Thomas Walter, Section Manager Strategic Product Marketing at NEC Display Solutions Europe said: “We are very pleased to see BrightSign enter the market with an OPS media player. A number of our commercial displays are made to be plug-and-play with an OPS signage device, and we are proud to showcase a highly sophisticated digital signage solution using the OPS player at our stand this year.”

“We are thrilled to see BrightSign’s new OPS media player,” said Neeraj Pendse, Director of Product Management at Elo. “With explosive growth in this segment, our customers will appreciate added versatility in an OPS player via BrightSign’s platform across our line of interactive touchscreen displays.”

Commenting, Jeff Hastings, CEO of BrightSign, said, “The commercial signage market is clamoring for an affordable, reliable OPS media player that offers features and functionality that have come to be expected for commercial-grade digital signage. A combined solution that works flawlessly and provides digital signage integrators with a stable platform will increase the size of the market for OPS-based digital signage systems.”

The HO523’s feature set is similar to the BrightSign HD3 players, and benefits from the many technology updates included in BrightSign’s Series 3 media players. These include an M.2 interface for an optional WiFi antenna or a solid-state drive (M.2 SSD), Gigabit networking and Mosaic Mode. The HO523 delivers a hardware-accelerated HTML5 engine, 1080p60 video decoding, robust interactive controls and dynamic live content features.

With the addition of the HO523, BrightSign’s portfolio of digital signage media players is now comprised of eight players spanning four product lines. At the entry level, the LS423 is a fully featured, commercial-grade player offering an alternative to consumer devices often chosen for price-sensitive digital signage installations. The HD223 and HD1023 add a hardware-accelerated HTML5 engine and 1080p60 decode, along with BrightSign’s highly reliable media-handling platform and signature ease of use. The two new XD players offer 4K support and can decode either two 1080p60 videos or a single 4K video and a single 1080p60 video simultaneously.

The BrightSign XT players offer unsurpassed performance with the company’s fastest HTML and graphics engine and the most powerful CPU. This technology for enterprise-level digital signage installations supports dual video decode of one 4K and one 1080p60 video simultaneously, HDMI input for Live TV pass-through, PoE+ and advanced HTML5 applications and interactive options such as gesture/swipe and WebGL.