| How it Works |
What You Need |
| The Net-Top-Box is
connected to a computer network and to an audio visual
display device such as an LCD TV. |
- Cat 5 Ethernet cable
- VGA cable
- 5.3mm audio cable
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| Power is applied to the
unit and the boot sequence starts. |
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| The unit obtains an IP
address from the network and shows the address briefly
on the display device. |
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| The user connects to the
unit through a web-browser using the IP address.
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- Any PC or Mac
- Username and Password
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| The user uploads (copy
and paste) media files from their computer onto the
Net-Top-Box. The files are stored on the disk inside the
unit. |
- Media files
- Windows Explorer (PC) or
CyberDuck (Mac)
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| The user creates one or
more screen Layouts containing one or more rectangular
Zones. Each Zone has a PlayList to which one or more of
the stored media files can be added. |
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| The user adds one or more
Layouts to the weekly Schedule. |
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| The user activates the
Schedule and the relevant media will appear, as laid
out, on the display device. Each PlayList runs in a
continuous loop. The media is not streamed out over the
network or shown on the users computer monitor.
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| At the scheduled time and
day of week, different Layouts will appear on the
screen. |
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| To show live TV, the
Net-Top-Box is connected to a TV aerial and the relevant
TV station is added to a PlayList (as opposed to a video
file that is stored on the disk). |
- TV aerial
- RF cable
- Analogue station list
- Or good digital signal
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| To show the text from an
RSS newsfeed, the Internet address (URL) of the feed is
entered into the Net-Top-Box which may also need to be
configured to access the Internet. Simmilarly for
showing web-pages. |
- Newsfeed URLs
- Proxy Server details
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