Digital signage is a fast evolving industry enriched by many emerging digital media technologies. From the traditional proof-of-concept pilots using personal computers (PCs and Macs), new advances are making it far cheaper and reliable to deploy highly capable media appliances built using the latest multimedia chips.

Brazil surprises us by entering at #3 this month on the SMIL Trends: Top 10 Countries chart. Indeed we have heard activities in that region but its shear speed nevertheless surprises us.

The upcoming product release from signagelive adds exciting new features to enrich support for SMIL digital signage media players from IAdea.

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IAdea partner 42media Group with its Oxygen.next platform has recently announced a project win with IAdea on its corporate blog:

Digital signage is an emerging market that has grown rapidly in the past few years. More and more companies are deploying digital signage as the public begin to understand the impact of digital signage systems. If you are a software developer, this presents a great opportunity for entering a fast growing market space.

Background

Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (previously known as CKS or Chang Kai Shek International) is the largest of three international airports in Taiwan, serving over 20 million passengers each year. The recent opening of direct routes between Taoyuan International and major airports in China is rapidly driving up passenger flow, and major renovation of Terminal 1 and construction of the new Terminal 3 are underway to cope with the predicted growth.

A-SMIL.org publishes specs on using SMIL to dynamically decide whether a media item within a playlist should or should not play. This functionality enables SMIL devices in

• Limiting the "validity period" within which a media file is licensed to play
• Defining items that only play on certain days of the week

Digital signage SaaS service digitalsignage.NET has just announced to start operating in September.

What's probably more interesting is that 2 out of its 3 hardware options are SMIL open standard players, showing that the features offered by SMIL media appliances are found to be a perfect match for emerging SaaS offerings.