Cruise lines

A ship is a building that moves, and the link to shore is not yours to waste.

Several hundred screens per ship, ten to thirty ships, and one satellite link that paying guests are already using. Even on the newest hulls that bandwidth is metered and shared, so an estate that streams its content from shore is competing with the thing guests complain about first. Here the content lives on the ship, the screens compose from it locally, and the link carries decisions rather than media.

A large lit screen showing the daily programme in a cruise ship atrium — **The programme board, rendered on the ship.** The media is already aboard and the screens compose from it, so what crosses the satellite is a decision about what should be showing rather than the thing itself.

A screen in a cruise ship corridor showing a muster instruction in two languages — **Safety outranks everything, and it has to prove it did.** One command takes every screen on the ship, in the languages the manifest says are aboard, and each screen reports that it actually rendered the message.

A screen in a cruise ship crew mess showing a boat drill time — **Crew areas are screens too, and they are not guest screens.** Zones mean a guest promotion never appears in a service corridor. Training plays as full rate video from the ship rather than from shore.

A lit portrait screen beside cruise ship lift doors showing a deck plan — **A lift lobby on every deck, on every ship.** Deck plans, venue hours and where the thing you are looking for actually is. Rendered from the ship, so a guest reading it mid-ocean is reading something current.

A large lit screen beside a cruise ship gangway showing an all aboard time — **All aboard is the one message that cannot be wrong.** Ship time against shore time, tender queues and the hour the gangway lifts, on the screens people pass on the way off and the way back.

Three things about a ship that no shore estate has to deal with

The link is metered, shared, and the guests are paying for it. Streaming signage from shore takes bandwidth from the thing guests complain about most. On board, the media is already on the ship, the screens render from it, and what crosses the satellite is a declaration of what should be showing, which is a few kilobytes rather than a few gigabytes.

A ship is out of reach. Nobody is flying an engineer to a vessel mid-Atlantic. Every screen reports its own storage, memory, temperature and whether it is actually rendering, so a failure is a work order for the next turnaround rather than a discovery made by a guest.

The fleet must look like one brand and no two ships are alike. Deck plans, venue names and the number of screens differ hull to hull. The brand and the programme are fleet level, the deck and the venue are the ship’s, and a newly delivered vessel joins with the fleet’s content already on it.

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Media resident on the ship. The shore link carries decisions, not files.

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Safety override on every screen at once, in multiple languages, with a render receipt from each screen.

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Zones for guest areas, crew areas, venues and bridge, each with their own rules.

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Works with the link degraded or down. A screen keeps showing the right thing and catches up when the ship is back in coverage.

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One licence covers signage, casting into conference and meeting rooms, and priority messaging.

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Adapters bought outright at $50 each, so the hardware sails with the ship rather than being rented.

Order before 31 October

Two things included, and a price that stops moving.

Ava Display Edge included, on orders of 100 screens or more. Casting and content stay inside the building.
Your price is fixed for three years. What you order at is what you pay, and it is published rather than quoted.

Offer applies to orders placed before 31 October 2026. Prices are list; the hold applies to the price you order at.

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A fleet is the arithmetic at its most obvious.

Four hundred screens a ship across twelve ships is four thousand eight hundred screens. At $40 per screen per year with the hardware owned, put that against what the fleet pays today per vessel, per system, per renewal.

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