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Billboard TV Mode - Digital Advertising Media - (Digital Signage, Billboards and Menu Boards)

TV Mode / Billboard TV

Get rid of Cable and start making money from your TVs by making your digital signage TV or Live Stream focused and running ads alongside local small businesses, your own business or special, and more. 

Billboard TV mode uses IPTV or Internet Protocol television. this is the delivery of television content over Internet Protocol networks. This is in contrast to delivery through traditional terrestrial, satellite, and cable television formats. Unlike downloaded media, IPTV offers the ability to stream the source media continuously.

This is a link to find IPTV stream channels https://iptvcat.com/

What is Billboard TV?

With DAM you can create your own TV network through our Digital Signage or Digital Billboard system. With our software you can program video content from any YouTube, Vimeo, or other LIVE Stream locations at a specific time and date within a 2-minute window to any Ad Server you control in your network.

This is as close to having the broadcast studio that you can get without the need for an FCC license or content copyrights. You can even stream IPTV TV channels like news, movie channels, and more. It’s just a matter of locating the IPTV URLs and creating a Tag Image for that channel.

You can also send ANY streamable video content as long as you have its address and it’s free to stream which is how many LIVE TV stations send their content to Roku, Amazon Fire Stick, and websites like Netflix and Hulu.

This takes advertising to a new level and removes all the politics and legal red tape from media distribution. This feature opens up all types of possibilities for information for you that makes DAM the best Digital Signage system on the planet for investment and creating profit.

How can I use Billboard TV?

Let’s say you have a Digital Signage system inside a Salon and there are people waiting to be served. Normally your digital signage would be displaying ads every 5 to 15 seconds which gets boring after a few minutes. Now you can break up these random ads with programmed content like Movies, TV Shows, the Funniest Videos, Video Commercials, Sports, Weather, News, and more.

You can also change the format of the digital signage system to be in Billboard TV Mode only and just use the right-side sponsor area for static ads. This way the content becomes 100% live video with static ads being the secondary focus. This is great for places where people have to sit and wait for long stretches of time.

This option allows you to offer locations an entertainment service for their clients with no need to purchase cable or satellite services. You set the channel subject matter based on the client’s location services.

The best thing is that you can now sell video content just like the large networks and have it displayed in a public place with no need for FCC approval or copyright royalties payments. The DAM system is privately owned showing not only publicly allowed content from streaming services, but also from uploaded videos or live streams from all over the world which defeats all these restraints.

digital signage meets billboard TV

DAM Billboard TV Mode Setup

There are 2 ways you can put your system into this mode:

Method one is to upload a Tag Image with the prefix “S_” which will set the Display screen to stream in a Live video URL that could be the news or a movie channel. This basically will happen soon after your system powers up and finds the Tag Image. These files would be a jpg image with the file name of “S_name_of_text_file.jpg” and the actual text file itself with the URL listed to stream followed by seconds to stream.

Note: In this mode the seconds to stream is ignored so the stream never stops 24/7 unless you intervene. 

This is a Western Channel that only plays westerns 24/7

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Method two is what was just added to the new updated version 16.0.2 and higher. This new update gives you an On Demand Billboard TV mode which uses the number keys to select from 9 channels you can pre-program. To program these channels you have to use a number prefix from 1 to 9 in this format “1_” to “9_”. 

Note: In this mode, the seconds to stream is ignored so the stream never stops 24/7 unless you intervene. 

If you have Tag Images uploaded to the system in this format you can just press the number 1 key on the keyboard or keypad if connected to force your digital signage system into Billboard TV mode manually.

Example for On Demand Channel 1:

You will need two files just like you would with the “S_” method. These files would be a jpg image with the file name  “1_name_of_text_file.jpg” and the actual text file itself with the URL listed to stream followed by seconds to stream.

Below you see the Tag Image and Text file to go with it. Notice the names are the same with the added prefix for the image file and one is an image while the other is a text file.

This is a Western Channel that only plays westerns 24/7

The billboard system uses the image file name to know what text file to open which is holding the long URL of the live video stream. This stream form is HLS normally.

Technically speaking, HLS uses h. 264 video compression, AAC, or MP3 for audio compression, and transmits streams using the MPEG-TS container format. Video streaming via HLS works by chopping an MP4 video stream into short, ~10-second video chunks.