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
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