Android Box Recommendations Please

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Hello all,

I’m looking to upgrade from old DS9 boxes recommended by Xibo within the organisation I work for. I know Xibo has a recommended list but was wondering what people recommend and use to connect to the CMS and running the app on the device?

Thanks!

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What’s your motivation for the upgrade? If you have some specifics on why your current boxes aren’t meeting requirements any more, I’m sure we’ll all come back with some solid suggestions.

We’ve got a selection of different players here; 151 screens across multiple OS deployments and hardware configurations, and the only players that don’t give us any issues at all are our 27 DSCS9s… they just don’t stop! My only complaint is our cyber security team don’t like them because they’re not patched with the latest Android security updates. But… that’s Android for you. We don’t have any of the newer DSCS95s or DSCS9Xs here, but I’d trust them to work just as well.

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Thanks for this, that’s good to know. We use DSCS9’s too and a few of our boxes have stopped working completely, sometimes I find they just lose connection and drop off playlists when trying to upload content. We are looking to purchase a few more anyway due to expanding our digital signage coverage. I have looked at the newer DSCS9 range and was just wondering if people had any more recommendations before making the decision on what to purchase.

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Hi
We have been working with Ugoos X4 for some years now. They take some work to set up but runs very nice. Even have some in roadsign LED installations (down to -20C) for over a year now.

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Giada D77, imo best player I’ve used for some weird reason when doing screen splicing, one of the 2 dedicated CPU HDMI ports gets the color messed up only on Hisense displays. The other dedicated CPU driven output as well as the 2 GPU based outputs always work flawlessly.

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We have 250 displays where the first batch was DSCS9 (around 30 players). All of them running fine for years.

Often breaks are the AC/DC adapter because of the sudden power outage which could break the adapter. Also DSCS9(x) doesn’t like to get a power interrupt alot. From the 250 players in 3 to 4 years. We replaced 10 devices en reinstalled 5 because of constant power outages. But specifically those devices where running at customer were they needed to turn it off instead of leaving it on.