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Your old TV becomes a shop screen

Offers, prices, opening hours and a QR code for reviews play as a calm loop on a TV, tablet or monitor. Free, no sign-up, and none of it ends up with us.

Design your screenHow it gets onto the TV

What happens to your content

None of it ends up with us. The link carries the screen itself, and you save the file and the video on your own device.

  1. ContentOffers, prices, opening hours and QR codes as slides.
  2. DesignSeven looks, your colour, landscape for the TV or portrait for tablets and kiosk stands.
  3. Onto the screenAs a link, as a file for a USB stick and tablets, or as a video.

Start from a template

Each template runs here exactly as it will on the screen. Prices and times stay empty until you fill them in.

Templates

Preview

Loading the fonts

Slide 1 of 4 · whole loop 40 s

Content

Pick a slide to edit it. The preview jumps there.

Keyboard: Alt with the up or down arrow moves the selected slide.

Slide 1: New or special

One word, for example “New” or “Special”.

“8.50” becomes “€8.50”. Leave empty for no price.

Picture

The drawings move gently and need no photo.

Ten seconds are enough for a heading and a price; price lists need longer.

Design

Look, colour and format apply to every slide.

For the logo slide and the file name.

Logo

A PNG with a transparent background looks best. It stays in your browser.

Look

Each preview shows your selected slide in that look.

Colour

Text on this colour is white, contrast 7.4 to 1. Every text colour is measured: small text reaches at least 4.5 to 1, large text at least 3 to 1.

Format
Settings

Many TVs cut off a few per cent at the edge of the picture (overscan). With the margin every text stays visible.

Gentle cross-fades only, no movement in the picture. Good for practices, offices and quiet shops.

Onto the screen

Three ways, all without signing up and without anything stored with us.

As a link

The whole screen is inside the link, nothing is stored with us. Open it on the tablet or in the TV’s browser and it plays.

As a file for USB sticks and tablets

One HTML file with everything inside: texts, photos, logo and fonts. It plays without internet in any current browser.

To open it: double-click on a laptop or mini PC, or open it in Chrome on an Android tablet. On an iPad the link is the easier way. TVs rarely open such files from a USB stick; that is what the video is for.

As a video for a USB stick

The loop as a video at 1920 × 1080 pixels, recorded right here in your browser.

On the TV: plug in the stick, open the video in the USB or media app and switch on “Repeat”.

Which way suits your device is explained here: How it gets onto the TV

The shop screen is made entirely in your browser. Texts, photos and logo are not sent to us and not stored. The link carries the screen after the # sign, and browsers send that part to no server. A draft (texts and image addresses, no photos from files) stays in this browser’s storage. Images you add by address are loaded by the screen from their own server. More in the privacy policy.

How it gets onto the TV

Four ways, depending on the device. The least effort is usually the video on a USB stick, or a tablet that scans the QR code.

Many TVs switch themselves off after a few hours without a button press. The setting is usually called auto power off, sleep timer or energy saving, and you can switch it off in the settings.

Video from a USB stick

Almost every TV plays videos from a USB stick, even without internet.

  1. Record the video and copy it to a USB stick.
  2. Plug in the stick and open the video in the TV’s USB or media app.
  3. Switch on “Repeat” in the player so the loop runs endlessly.

A tablet as the screen

A tablet on the counter or in the window is the shortest way: scan the QR code and the screen runs.

  1. Scan the QR code next to the link with the tablet’s camera and open the link.
  2. iPad: in Settings under Accessibility, switch on Guided Access, then press the side button (or the Home button) three times in Safari. Under Display & Brightness, set Auto-Lock to “Never”.
  3. Android: switch on app pinning (on some devices under Security) and raise the screen timeout. Keep the tablet on its charger.

Fire TV, Chromecast and Google TV

These devices have no browser that opens the link by itself. Two ways work:

  1. Chromecast or Google TV: open the link in Chrome on a laptop, go to “Cast, save and share” and then “Cast” in the Chrome menu, and pick the device. The laptop stays on meanwhile.
  2. Fire TV: install the Silk browser from the Amazon Appstore, open the link once and save it as a bookmark.
  3. On the screen, choose the full screen button.

Smart TV with a browser

Many smart TVs have a web browser. Typing a long link with the remote is tedious, though.

  1. Open the link once, most easily with a USB or Bluetooth keyboard on the TV.
  2. Save it as a bookmark so the screen runs again in a few clicks after switching on.
  3. Choose full screen. The remote’s arrow keys skip slides, OK shows the controls.

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