Many displays one client?

Please define distant?

Well they are actully several hundred meters to few kilometers (2 at most).

That's quite some distance and I wouldn't know how to solve that without using client-computers. For distances up to 300 meter you could easily use decent VGA over UTP extenders. Cheapest solution would probably be getting Andriod-on-a-stick for client computers (allthough I'm not sure about the performance by those things). Is there any budget, or simply no budget at all?

There's actually no budget at all. That's why we were thinking if there is some sort hardware or software which will help us with that. The options you gave are pretty interesting and I think we will analize the use of some Adroid-on-a-stick. The thing I don't know is if we will be able to update the schedule, display, etc. remotely using this method or we will have to update each one manually.

All updates concerning content would be done on the server, the clients only follow what the server dictates. This week I should get my Android-stick, so if the beta is still open, I'll test it with the most demanding campaigns I have running and let you know in this thread how the performance is. As I understand it 1080p should run fine, but I'm more concerned with the performance when the player needs to scroll multiple RSS-tickers in multiple directions. Will get back to you!

Thanks for your consideration. I'll be waiting to hear about your tests.

Update: the Android stick seems quite powerful! I'm quite confident it has the hardware to do the job. I have not received any further info on the Android-beta, so I can't test anything properly.
I shall report back when I got something to share!

Johan - are you on the beta program or was it closed when you signed up?

Alex

I could leave my personal information and on submit was presented a message that I would be contacted as soon as something was ready. It wasn't clear to me if I could still get in the beta... Why do you ask? Can you pull some strings? ;-)