The Platform
Dependable, always-current signage — with a one-click emergency takeover built in.
Most signage tools bolt emergency alerting on as a premium add-on and price you per screen. Vital Displays was built the other way around: a resilient player and a bundled alert takeover on flat per-site pricing, on the TVs you already own.
Multi-zone layout editor
Compose the whole wall in the browser. Split a screen into zones, drop content into each, and mix live and static media on one board.
- Drag-and-drop multi-zone layouts — no proprietary design tool
- Content types: image, video, PDF, web page, Markdown, HTML snippet, clock, countdown & ticker
- HTML snippets render sandboxed, never injected into the page
Offline-resilient Chrome-TV player
Open a browser on any TV, enter a pairing code, and it plays. The player caches its content and keeps showing the last good board straight through a network drop, then recovers on its own.
- Runs on any TV with Chrome — no proprietary box to buy
- Local caching & auto-reconnect: no blank screens on a hiccup
- Playback logging so you know it is showing (roadmap: signed proof-of-play)
Emergency / CAP alert takeover
One action turns every screen into the emergency message — building-wide or targeted, logged, and auto-restoring when the incident clears. Bundled at the flat price, never a paid add-on.
- One-button, building-wide or per-group screen takeover
- Every activation is logged and audited
- Auto-restores prior content when cleared (roadmap: external-CAP consumption of InformaCast / Alertus / Rave feeds)
Fleet monitoring & scheduling
See every display’s health from one dashboard, and control what shows where with packages, groups and day/time schedules — set once and it runs itself.
- Live display health & status monitoring across every site
- Packages (ordered, timed playlists), groups & inherited defaults
- Visual day-of-week / time-of-day scheduling
Capability matrix
What's inside
| Capability | Area | Included |
|---|---|---|
| Images | Layout editor | |
| Video | Layout editor | |
| PDFs | Layout editor | |
| Web pages (live URL embeds) | Layout editor | |
| Markdown | Layout editor | |
| HTML snippets (sandboxed) | Layout editor | |
| Clock, countdown & ticker widgets | Layout editor | |
| Multi-zone layouts & day/time schedules | Scheduling | |
| Packages, groups & inherited defaults | Scheduling | |
| One-click emergency / CAP alert takeover | Emergency | |
| Offline-resilient browser player | Player | |
| Microsoft Entra SSO, roles & audit log | Administration |
Wondering how this compares to other digital-signage platforms? See honest comparisons.