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Deborah, If you only want to display a video and don't need any user input, most televisions these days will play media (pictures, video, audio) from a USB flash drive. We have one set up to endlessly loop through a series of videos. All it needs is power. If you want interactivity, you might consider an ipad. Not cheap, but with an MDM you have a lot of power to easily lock it down and can minimize the cables. Erich On Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 21:07, Deborah Fitchett eloquently inscribed: > Kia ora koutou, > > We’ve got a sculpture in the library that we’d like to contextualise with a > video, and we’re looking for ways to set this up. It’s essentially a digital > plaque: something like a screen, probably some quietish speakers, video > player software, enough storage for the video, and a start button. > > Options we’ve considered: > > * We’ve eyed up Raspberry Pis for this kind of thing, but then you’ve got to > identify/source/assemble all the peripherals yourself and it’s probably very > simple and obvious to someone who likes that kind of thing but I’m not a > hardware person at all. Also I think at the time we wanted to display a > particular website, and it raised network security issues that made us tired > just thinking about them. > * We’ve tried to get away with using old netbooks/tablets but ITS doesn’t > like us keeping those things around past their best-by, also due to network > security issues. > * The local public library has some very cool interactive displays but they’re > also pricy to match. And we’ve got to consider not just the initial purchase > (which could conceivably come under a refurbishment project) but also > maintenance and replacement in due course (which would have to come out > of our normal strained budget). > * So we’ve always ended up either a) giving up or b) using a whole PC, > which is ridiculously overpowered for a single purpose and yet here we are. > > Any ideas for this use-case? > > And/or for our other occasional purpose of displaying/letting people browse > a specific website? (Ie click links and maybe input keywords for searching.) > > Deborah > –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– > Deborah Fitchett (she/her) MLIS, RLIANZA > Associate University Librarian, Digital Scholarship > > –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Learning, Teaching and Library – Te > Whare Pūrākau PO Box 85064, Lincoln University Lincoln 7647, > Christchurch, New Zealand +64 3 423 0358 > [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> > ltl.lincoln.ac.nz > > –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– > Lincoln University > Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki > –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– > > ________________________________ > > "The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential > and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, distribution, or copying of > the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, > please advise the sender by return e-mail or telephone and then delete this > e-mail together with all attachments from your system."