Videotel Builds 'Industrial-grade' Digital Signage Media Player

  • By Dian Schaffhauser
  • 06/01/15
Videotel VP70XD

Digital signage company Videotel has produced a new media player intended to simplify video looping and run 24 hours a day. Features of the $298 VP70XD industrial-grade digital media player include:

  • Auto-looping of video, audio, photos and other images singly or in a mix and with varying slideshow transitions;
  • The ability to read directly from a USB or SD card;
  • Incorporation of audio files for background sound;
  • HDMI resolution of 720 pixels, 720 interlaced, 1080p and 1080i;
  • VGA resolutions of 1024x768 and 1366x768;
  • Screensaver options;
  • A USB 2.0 jack; and
  • A two-year warranty.

The player singly weighs 6.2 ounces and has a footprint of 3 15/16" x 3 1/8". The box includes a remote control, an external power supply, an SD card drive, a six-foot HDMI cable and a six-foot male RCA to male RCA audio and video cable.

About the Author

Dian Schaffhauser is a former senior contributing editor for 1105 Media's education publications THE Journal, Campus Technology and Spaces4Learning.

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