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Devin:  There are two solutions I can think of:

If you are replacing the SD machines, look at the offerings from  
Roku.com (Brightsign)....they are reasonably priced and will start on  
power up...

The other thing, which may be easier in the long term is to look at  
the roku units which are networkable.  you could then tweak your show  
very easily from the desktop - they offer an asp through their web  
portal.....

The other company I've worked with and been very pleased with both  
their product and support is Technovision; they are about $75 less  
per unit....

Both these options fit nicely behind monitors; they are very small.

Not knowing what your budget is.....

Here's another link I keep handy for digital signage products....

http://tinyurl.com/dhpqwy
	


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> Wondering if any media/av tech or just clever person out there has  
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> possible fix to a problem we're having.  We've mounted multiple
> Panasonic plasma monitors (model # TH50PZ85U) to a long hallway in  
> order
> to continuously run a slide show of hi-res astronomical images.  Plan
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> start up problem, but the image quality was poor, probably because the
> reader's output resolution is too limited. Anyway, the Panasonic tech
> rep we called said what we want to do can't be done, but we hate to  
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> up now considering our investment in this project.  (And yes, we could
> just leave them on 24/7, but we're not going there.) We currently
> looking at buying small laptops (with HDMI lines out) for each  
> monitor,
> but that idea makes aesthetic mounting on the walls rather  
> challenging.
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