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      Cost, Parts availability

      They’re building them out of cheap SBC with sd cards.

      It’s cheaper to put four economy SBC’s in than one computer that can handle 4 displays.

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        what is my purpose?

        You show a Mt Dew ad at a single store in Ketchikan, AK

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          They did that for years. It’s a good servicable option.

          Of course, printing all those out and shipping them all over the world isn’t without cost.

          These can be animated. Ideally, they can have an attract mode to improve sales.

          Corporate can force the hand of small shops to put the flavors in they want to market.

          There are probably as many pros as there are cons.

          You’re 100% correct, they’re not necessary

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          sorry to easy we’d rather go with a company that specializes in this task and charges a monthly subscription

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      I’m pretty sure its shopped because I’ve never seen a machine with actual displays in it for each flavor lol. They all use paper cut outs.

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      because computing is a forgotten magic and no one knows how to correctly operate those black boxes