Blue Chip Technology’s new Trio three-year warranty is a world first for compact digital signage players. Trio applies to the compact, rugged and reliable Vario range, which delivers advanced multimedia performance from industrial grade computing platforms. Leveraging a 10 year successful track record, the introduction of Trio promotes a true ‘fit and forget’ philosophy for digital signage projects worldwide.The Trio three-year warranty, available now, is the natural extension to Blue Chip’s strategy of helping AV developers focus on their multimedia presentation rather than the underlying hardware. ‘Trio’ represents three steps as well as three years. The first is a simple online registration of the purchased Vario. The second concerns maintaining the Vario’s environment within specified limits and the third is the pay-off: Three years of trouble-free cover.
Trio highlights the difference between Vario and other suppliers’ digital signage products. Vario drives screens of all sizes with high resolution, accurately rendered fast moving graphics – yet is based on a compact, power efficient and inherently reliable chassis and configuration. Unlike systems based on large power –hungry office PCs, the Vario platforms are consistently engineered to handle the environmental challenges typical of digital signage installations. They share the technology that Blue Chip builds into computers within mission critical applications such as power plants, rail networks and broadcast uplinks. This includes rugged chassis, industrial temperature specifications, system watchdogs, high MTBF disk drives and fanless operation or maglev fans.
Such designed-in reliability is essential for systems installers who lose money if hardware failure compromises their ability to meet playout contracts. They face further costs when maintenance staff are sent out to repair the fault, especially if the players are mounted in a remote or inaccessible location. Accordingly Blue Chip complements their elevated hardware specifications with a managed product life cycle featuring ‘form fit and function’ evolution. Multimedia builders can exploit new AV technology as it appears, while maintaining a seamless, reliable replacement and upgrade path. This strategy has a proven record of success, so underwriting it with the Trio warranty is the logical next step.
“The Trio warranty will make an important contribution to the Vario’s market appeal” commented Mike Gulliford, Blue Chip Technology’s Sales Director. “Our confidence isn’t built just on theoretical assumptions; it comes from many years’ experience of our systems running continuously in demanding environments with no reported problems. Trio is our way of passing this confidence on in a tangible form, so that our customers can take on digital signage projects with a peace of mind that we know is justified.”