Digital Signage is now the new must-have tool for marketing and its applications and uses have multiplied many times over the past few years, with plasma and LCD now be seen in all manner of locations for all types of uses.
One of the last environments to be exploited for digital advertising is the use of plasma and LCD abroad.
Digital signage outside is one of the few areas left in the niche industry of digital marketing, but more and more companies have spotted the potential and are producing LCD TVs that can be located abroad.
The challenge of digital signage on the outside is protecting plasma or LCD elements. Many manufacturers to ensure their LCD or plasma on the outside is closed to protect from rain that is obviously very important when it comes to signaling outside. However, many of these LCD screens outdoors are manufactured to a very mild climate and little consideration is given to extremes of temperature often found in Europe and North America.
Heat in summer can be extremely damaging to an LCD. The screen and the LCD electronics must be protected sun. LCD screens are easily damaged by sunlight, while without adequate refrigeration exposure to high temperatures will decrease dramatically an LCD or plasma life.
The same protection the cold is very important as most LCD's will simply not be able to cope with temperatures below zero.
However, many manufacturers are beginning to identify these risks and abroad are producing LCD is designed to operate in extreme temperatures. However, most of these outdoor digital signage solutions are geared to a specific environment, such as extreme heat or extreme cold. There are very few options available that can really handle the summer heat and freezing temperatures, often supported in parts of America and Europe during the months of winter.
Fortunately, for those of us who live in areas where the two extreme temperatures are often experienced during the year an intelligent solution more practice is to use standard LCD displays and house them in an outdoor cabinet LCD. Computer cases of LCD (and plasma) are manufactured by some computer manufacturers industrial premises to use their experience of home computers and touch screens in the industrial areas to build LCD boxes that can handle not only with the rain, but all the extremes of temperature and climate.
These steel boxes LCD are also built to withstand vandalism and theft by allowing outdoor digital signage to be abandoned with complete peace of mind.
About the Author:
Richard N Williams is a technical author and a specialist in the digital advertising industry helping to develop outdoor digital signage and computer, printer and touch screen enclosures for all environments. Please visit us for more information about an LCD enclosure or other digital outdoor signage solutions.
Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – Planning to Use Digital Signage Outdoors?
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