Screens that keep playing when the internet doesn't
Browser-based doesn't mean streaming. ManagedScreen downloads every image and video to the screen before it's needed, then plays from the device's own storage — so a dropped connection is something your audience never sees.
Playlist stored on the screen
No player box
Free to try
When the connection drops
Nothing on the screen changes
The three things that make an outage a non-event for the people looking at your display.
The whole playlist, downloaded ahead
Not just the slide showing right now. Every file in the rotation is pulled to the device as soon as it's added, so the tenth slide is already there long before it comes around.
Playback runs from the device
Once a file is on the screen it plays from there, connection or not. The loop doesn't pause, stutter, or fall back to a holding image while the network is out.
You can still tell it's offline
A small crossed-out wifi icon appears in the corner of the screen, and the dashboard marks the screen offline — because a display that hides a dead network is a display nobody fixes.
How it works
Prefetch, store, reconcile
The screen fetches what it will need
Whenever the playlist changes, the display works through it one file at a time and stores each one locally. One at a time on purpose: a kiosk has hours to spare but not bandwidth, and a dozen parallel video downloads would starve the slide that's currently on screen.
Files are kept, not re-downloaded
Uploads get a permanent address that never points at different bytes, so a file the screen already holds can be trusted forever. It survives reloads and power cuts, and the screen never spends bandwidth fetching something twice.
The cache matches the playlist
Remove a slide and its file is dropped from the screen; add one and it's pulled down. The device's storage is kept equal to what you've published, so it never fills up with content you retired months ago.
Do you need a player box?
The same caching, without the hardware
Dedicated media players earned their reputation when signage software streamed content on demand. Prefetching to the screen gets you the same resilience from hardware you already own.
A player box per screen
Hardware to buy, mount and power behind every display.
A per-screen hardware cost, plus a spare for when one dies.
Content cached on the box — replace the box and you provision it again.
An installer visit to add a location.
ManagedScreen
The screen's own browser, or a free app. Nothing extra behind the TV.
A flat monthly price, whatever the screen count.
Content cached on the screen and restored automatically when it reconnects.
Open a URL, type the 6-digit code, done.
Being straight with you
What an outage does still affect
Caching solves playback, not physics. Here is what genuinely needs a connection — so you can decide with the real picture rather than a sales one.
New content waits for the connection
Anything you publish while a screen is offline reaches it when it reconnects, not before. The screen keeps showing what it already had — which is the right failure, but it is a delay.
Live apps need live data
Your own photos and videos are cached. A weather or clock app that pulls fresh data is a different thing — it can't invent a forecast it hasn't been able to fetch, and caching one would just show yesterday's.
Setting up a screen needs a connection
Pairing a new display and loading its content for the first time both happen over the network. Offline playback covers a screen that's already running, not one you're installing during an outage.
FAQ
Offline questions, answered
A screen that has loaded once keeps playing without a connection. The whole playlist — every image and video — is downloaded to the device ahead of time and stored there, so an outage doesn't interrupt the loop. A connection is needed to set a screen up in the first place, and for new content to reach it.
As far as playback goes, indefinitely. The stored playlist doesn't expire, so the screen keeps rotating through the slides it holds until the connection returns. What it can't do meanwhile is receive anything you publish — that arrives once it's back online.
No. Dedicated players earned that reputation because older signage software streamed content on demand, so a dropped connection meant a blank screen. ManagedScreen prefetches instead: the device downloads each file before it's needed and plays it from local storage — the same mechanism a player box uses. A smart TV or an inexpensive tablet behaves the same way.
Two ways. On the display itself, a small crossed-out wifi icon appears in the corner while the content keeps playing, so anyone walking past can see it. In your dashboard, every screen reports in regularly and is marked offline when it stops — so you can spot a location that has lost connectivity without going there.
The screen reconnects on its own and picks up whatever changed while it was away. New slides are downloaded, removed ones are cleared, and the rotation carries on. Nobody has to visit the screen or restart anything.
Try it on a screen you already have
Pair a screen, add a few slides, and see how it runs. Free to start, on the TV you already own — with no player box to buy first.
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