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Commercial TVs For Making Your Digital Signage Campaign A Success
We are asked repeatedly about using lower cost domestic TV’s compared to commercial grade television displays for digital signage, learn the advantages and disadvantages associated with using cheap consumer displays.
When we tell people that all flat screen displays are different, this is why there is a huge price differential between commercial and domestic grade televisions.
Digital Menu Boards.
Commercial grade displays are used for menu boards in restaurants and they typically run for long periods of time (some run 24 hours per day), rather than the TV sets we have at home that operate on a much smaller scale.
Here are some disadvantages of a domestic grade TV at a glance:
• They can only be used in the landscape orientation
• They have a lower life expectancy
• Warranty is very limited
• Don’t have the inputs or outputs as commercial grade TVs
• Cannot be connected to the internet
The only two advantages are the cost, they are much cheaper and domestic grade displays are readily available.
Should you go down the route of using a domestic TV, bear in mind that the warranty will be void, should the manufacturer find out the display has been used for a commercial use such as digital signage.
So the only real option is to purchase a commercial grade display, these will provide all the connectivity you need as well as being able to be used in either portrait or landscape position and will provide a trouble free solution to your digital signage hardware solution.
LCD Enclosure Global have several years manufacturing outdoor signage enclosures, as well as supplying digital menu boards and digital posters.Call them today to discuss your signage requirements. Call 888-460-3573 (toll free) Today.