Cinema Sign 3.0 · Available now
A major upgrade for every cinema screen.
Full-day synchronized playback, shared master data, advertising, new schedule providers and a clearer administration interface—all still free to use.
Core player and display
- Poster, trailer and session-time display modes
- Portrait rotation and landscape layouts
- Poster fill or contain presentation
- Cut, fade, crossfade, slide and zoom transitions
- Configurable poster duration and transition speed limits
- Trailer start and end offsets
- High-quality local video playback
- Rotation-aware Coming Soon details sized to fill the session area
- Regional film-classification artwork for 16 markets
- Option to disable classification icons completely
- Start on boot
- Scheduled display off/on periods
- Nightly application restart
- Immediate application restart
Playlists and synchronization
- Dated JSON playlists rendered for the complete day, from 00:00 to 23:59
- Full-day synchronized poster and trailer playback
- Schedule-weighted automatic playlists
- Coming Soon-only playlists
- Manually enabled and weighted playlists
- Deterministic ordering across players
- Per-player playback offsets
- UDP discovery and clock synchronization
- Automatic master election
- Forced master/follower roles and conflict warnings
- Video drift measurement and rate correction
- Transition timing synchronized to the shared clock
- Current item, playlist position and upcoming items shown on the Playback page
- Scrollable full-playlist viewer with a Goto NOW shortcut
Films, sessions and media
- Film table with search, paging and active/coming-soon filters
- 31-day editable session grid
- Manual film and session entry
- Per-film controls to suppress a Coming Soon poster or trailer
- Poster and MP4 trailer uploads
- d-cine poster lookup
- d-cine recommended trailer selection and previews
- Queued downloads with live progress
- Cached poster and trailer previews
- Automatic daily trailer discovery
- Bulk missing-trailer lookup
- Media deletion and historical-film ageing
- Automatic storage cleanup with low-space warnings
Web administration
- Reorganized responsive administration interface
- Light and dark themes with green accents
- Separate Status and Playback pages
- Authenticated access
- Real-time Server-Sent Events status
- Offline warnings, five-second reconnect and full reload after recovery
- Clear endpoint errors and connection test controls
- Unit time and browser clock-drift warning
- Android and application uptime
- Disk usage and free-space reporting
- Live video timecode and sync diagnostics
- In-app release browser and APK download progress
- Guided Android installer approval workflow
Advertising
Insert cinema-controlled advertising without giving up synchronized film playback.
- Advertising enabled or disabled independently on each player
- Separate poster and trailer advertising intervals
- Poster advertisements replace a synchronized poster slot
- Video advertisements are inserted after the current trailer when the interval falls due
- Upload and preview image and video advertising assets
- Enable or disable individual assets
- Weighted priority from 0–100, giving higher-weight assets more opportunities to play
- Optional start and end dates for scheduled campaigns
- Advertising assets can travel from a Cinema Sign master while playback remains locally configurable
Regional classifications
Use the classification system appropriate to the cinema instead of forcing Australian artwork onto every installation.
- Australia
- Canada
- France
- Germany
- Hong Kong
- Iceland
- India
- Japan
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Spain
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Disabled mode for signs that should show no classification
- Common feed forms normalized automatically, including PG-13, FSK 12, BBFC 12A, MA 15+ and R 15+
- CinemaShowtimes territory selection follows the configured region
- Unknown classifications remain blank instead of displaying an incorrect badge
Cinema data
Open by default. Flexible when needed.
CinemaShowtimes OpenAPI
Open CinemaShowtimes-JSON 1.1 feeds with films, territory-aware classifications, media, Coming Soon titles and ISO session times. A public Marloo feed is included as the install default.
Cinema Sign Master
Point players at one configured master to share cinema data, posters, trailers and advertising assets. Each follower independently chooses its playback mode and whether advertising is enabled.
VenueMaster
Import current and Coming Soon films, sessions and poster assets directly from a VenueMaster schedule endpoint, with an endpoint test before saving.
BLOAD.TXT
Retrieve the legacy 75-column schedule format by HTTP, HTTPS or passive FTP. Poster and trailer matching is available through the separately configured d-cine Media API.
Manual and Veezi
Full manual management or direct Veezi films/session import, with persistent local overrides and d-cine media tools.
Vista and movieXchange
Implementations are present but require customer credentials, licensed API access and validation against each production environment before operational use.
Beta means not yet production-proven. POS vendors expose different contracts, licences and site configurations. Validate imported titles, timezone handling, sessions and media on a non-public player before rollout.
