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How to use digital Indoor TV to sell more at the point of sale — practical tips, real cases and news for retail.

Cover of the Café & Tech episode on indoor TV for pizzerias, with a vertical TV showing pizza, a soft drink and a dessert pizza
TV Indoor

Indoor TV for pizzerias: what to sell on screen while the pizza bakes

The table waits 30 to 40 minutes for the oven. What the screen shows at each moment: the fancy pizza name before ordering, drinks and kids' drinks, the preparation video, dessert pizza and your own delivery.

Three cards about affiliate QR codes on a store TV: Amazon bans offline promotion, Mercado Livre pays no commission on offline media and Magalu has no written ban on screens
TV Indoor

Affiliate QR code on your store or gym TV: is it allowed? What each program says

Amazon Brazil bans offline promotion, Mercado Livre pays no commission on offline media and Magalu says nothing about screens. Each contract's text, the last click and the commission math against the monthly fee.

Three cards on a dark blue background with the no-monthly-fee Indoor TV models: annual license, lifetime license and free with mandatory ads
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Indoor TV with no monthly fee: the 3 models sold under that name and the math for each

"No monthly fee" is rarely a one-time payment: it is an annual license per screen, a lifetime license or free use with mandatory ads. The 2-to-3-year math and 8 questions to ask before signing.

Cover of the Café e Tech Podcast episode on Indoor TV for clothing stores, with a vertical screen showing a model in a complete outfit
Indoor TV

Indoor TV for clothing stores: the fitting room that shows the full look (and what the screen may say about store credit and Pix)

The mannequin piece sells out first, and there is no room for a mannequin per piece. A screen by the fitting room does that job — and when it advertises store credit or a Pix discount, Brazilian law applies.

Cover of the Café e Tech Podcast episode about digital signage, showing a vertical screen kiosk in a shopping mall corridor
Indoor TV

Indoor TV, indoor media or digital signage: what is the difference (and what you actually need to buy)

Four names for the same three parts. The map of the terms, the warranty table that separates a home TV from a signage display and the 4 questions to ask a supplier.

Cover of the Indoor TV in Retail episode of the Café and Tech Podcast, on satisfaction surveys by QR code on the store screen
Indoor TV

Satisfaction survey on the store TV: a QR code per department — and why a reward is allowed here

A Google review and an internal survey are two pieces with opposite rules. What to ask in each department, the simple reward, the prize draw that needs authorisation and data protection.

Cover of the Café and Tech Podcast episode comparing web TV and Indoor TV in vertical format
Indoor TV

Web TV or Indoor TV: what the difference is and which one you need to get

Same technology and, at JMV, the same system. The one-question test that decides which one to get, what changes in the content and the honest caveat about audience.

Cover image for the article on what can air on an aesthetic clinic waiting room TV under Brazil's CFM Resolution 2,336/2023
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What can air on an aesthetic clinic TV: Brazil's CFM rules, item by item

Before-and-after is not banned — it is conditioned, and the conditions dismantle the sales piece. The rule applied to the waiting room screen, with card specs, timing and an approval checklist.

Cover of the Café e Tech Podcast episode about panel format for Indoor TV, the source of this article about going live across every store screen
Indoor TV

Go live on Indoor TV: the announcement that reaches every store screen within the same minute

The playlist pauses, someone goes live from a phone and the schedule comes back on its own. What the feature is, which plan has it and the three limits: delay, bandwidth and sound.

Comparison between the marketplace channel, with 12% or 23% commission plus 3.2% and a monthly fee, and the restaurant's own channel, where the operator sets the price
Indoor TV

Can I sell cheaper on my own app than on the delivery marketplace — and say so inside my store?

The price is yours; the announcement depends on the channel. The three-part commission math, the parity clause to look for in your contract, and what the store screen can do.

Diagram with two panels: the music layer, collected by Ecad, and the audiovisual layer, authorised by the owner of the work
Indoor TV

Does a TV on in your store owe Ecad? Yes — and Ecad is only half the bill

The Ecad receipt settles the soap opera's soundtrack, not the soap opera. The two authorisations a switched-on screen triggers in Brazil, article by article.

Two vertical store screens side by side, both muted: on the left the video relies on narration, on the right the price and the offer terms are written in large type
Indoor TV

Muted video on indoor TV: why the screen in your store needs captions

The room owns the sound, not the screen. When audio actively hurts the sale, burned-in captions vs player text across a screen network, and what to show when there is no video.

Three columns with a factory's 7am, 3pm and 11pm shifts, each with its own item on screen, and a safety notice overriding all three
Indoor TV

Visual management on the factory floor: getting the message to people who never open email

Playlists per shift, an owner for every content type with safety override, where not to install screens and the honest limit between communication and a live dashboard.

Comparison between a break room screen seen only by staff, a reception screen also seen by customers and social media open to the public
Indoor TV

Employee photo on company TV: what Brazil's LGPD requires before the birthday message goes on screen

The two lawful bases, why employee consent is fragile, and how to pull a piece off every screen the same day someone withdraws it.

Three price surfaces for the same product side by side — the shelf label, the store screen and the checkout — with the screen showing a lower value
Indoor TV

Price on the store screen: what a supermarket takes on when it swaps paper signs for a TV

A displayed price binds the store, whether it comes from a paper sign or a screen — and a content TV does not replace the shelf label. The three categories the market treats as one.

Episode of the Cafe and Tech podcast about vertical Indoor TV at a pharmacy point of sale, the origin of the article on medicine advertising at the counter screen
Indoor TV

What you can show on a pharmacy TV: medicine advertising at the counter, rule by rule of Brazil's RDC 96

Prescription drugs out, OTC with six mandatory items, the permission generics enjoy inside the store, and what advertising a discount forces the pharmacy to keep visible.

Indoor TV screen showing offers next to a supermarket shelf, beside products with promotional price labels
Indoor TV

Expiring products: how to use the supermarket TV to sell them before they become waste

The morning check routine, the cut-off rule per category, the daypart grid and what the price shown on screen commits the store to.

Vertical screen mounted between barbershop stations, in the line of sight of a client in the chair
Indoor TV

Barbershop digital signage: the screen between the mirrors that sells the pomade your client would buy at the drugstore

Where to mount the screen in a room full of stations and mirrors, how to match each clip to the booked service, and the sequence that dismantles the drugstore price comparison.

Cover of the article about what can be aired on a dental office waiting room TV under Brazil's dental council rules
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What you can air on a dental office waiting room TV: Brazil's dental council rules, item by item

The clinic cannot air the before-and-after the dentist may publish. Pricing, testimonials, the "during" of a procedure and who signs off on the playlist, with the article and the act behind each rule.

Mario Sergio and Josimar Machado recording the Cafe and Tech podcast episode about Indoor TV for dental clinics
Indoor TV

Waiting room TV for dental offices: the screen that explains treatment before the chair

The reception playlist comes from the day's procedure schedule, not from the clock. The loop math, the content the practice already owns, and the limits advertising rules put on the screen.

Mário Sérgio and Josimar Machado on the Café e Tech podcast episode about indoor TV for restaurants, where the review QR code on screen at the end of the meal is discussed
Indoor TV

Google reviews from the restaurant TV: the QR code in the dining room is fine, the free dessert is not

The dining room screen is the best place to ask for a review. What Google Maps policy forbids is the trade — and also the review quota per server that automated search answers keep recommending.

Mário Sérgio and Josimar Machado on the Café e Tech podcast episode about indoor TV for restaurants, where the birthday countdown and the dining room tribute are discussed
Indoor TV

Birthday photo on the restaurant TV: how to run the tribute (and the consent the law requires)

The three tribute formats for the dining room screen, the countdown synced with the kitchen, and who actually consents to the photo: the person in it, or a parent or legal guardian if it is a child.

Mário Sérgio and Josimar Machado on the Café e Tech podcast episode about indoor TV for steakhouses and selling the add-ons of all-you-can-eat service
Indoor TV

Indoor TV for steakhouses: how to sell drinks, cocktails and dessert on all-you-can-eat night

The meat leaves no margin and the servers are carrying skewers. What the dining-room screen should show, in what order, on which screen — and how the same slide sells the next visit.

Hosts of the Café e Tech podcast discussing how to start an indoor TV business with a single display point
Indoor TV

Indoor TV as side income: can you start with a single screen? The math of the first location

The market says "build a network of 5 or 10 locations". Here the first-location math is open: the three routes to a screen you never buy, and when the money comes back.

Mário Sérgio and Josimar Machado on the Café e Tech episode answering live how to negotiate indoor TV advertising rates between a fixed monthly fee and a percentage of revenue
Indoor TV

Flat monthly fee or percentage of sales? How to charge your indoor TV advertisers — and how to prove results

A percentage requires measurement; without it, it becomes an argument. The decision rule, the four tools that prove the screen brought people in, and the two holes nobody faces.

Mário Sérgio and Josimar Machado on the JMV Cafe and Tech podcast episode discussing how to produce the asset that goes on a store screen
Indoor TV

Product photo on Indoor TV: how to shoot it with a phone and AI — and how far you can go

Production got cheap; the standard did not change. How to get the photo right, when AI helps, and the legal limit your store screen has to respect.

Mário Sérgio and Josimar Machado on the JMV Cafe and Tech podcast episode discussing margin pressure on small retail in Brazil
Indoor TV

Split payment in Brazil: mandatory only in 2028 — what changes for retail cash flow

Not a new tax on Pix: what changes is when the money leaves the till. What Brazil's Complementary Law 214/2025 says, the real 2026-2028 timeline and the lever a store owner still has.

Cover of the JMV Cafe and Tech podcast episode about indoor TV, showing a store screen with a coffee combo and a sales chart
Indoor TV

How long should the indoor TV loop be? Sizing the playlist by the customer journey

The rule has a sign, and almost everyone inverts it: the loop is always longer than customer dwell time. How to measure yours, the grid maths and what goes into the playlist.

Mário Sérgio and Josimar Machado in the JMV Café e Tech podcast episode about using indoor TV as a digital menu board in coffee shops
Indoor TV

Digital menu board for coffee shops: how to sell the drink customers are too shy to ask about

The fancy name hides the product, the queue behind stops the question and the customer orders the usual. What to show on the screen, how to move today's perishables and the R$ 1.66-a-day maths.

Cover of the article comparing an LED wall with a smart TV on a storefront, showing a frame from JMV's Café e Tech podcast episode about screens at the point of sale
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LED wall or smart TV on your storefront? What each one costs — and what changes when you update the content

August 2026 supplier listings put a 3×2 wall near R$ 36.8k. The first-year cost table, the honest account of brightness under sun, and the line nobody budgets for: updating the screen.

Mário Sérgio and Josimar Machado during the Café e Tech podcast episode about Indoor TV in a gas station convenience store
Indoor TV

Indoor TV for gas stations and convenience stores: what to show in each daypart and where to mount the screen

Drivers stand still for 5 to 7 minutes a few steps from the counter. The daypart content table, the screen positions on the forecourt and in the store, and the smart TV vs LED wall decision.

Mário Sérgio, solutions consultant at JMV Technology, on the JMV NEWS bulletin about handing indoor TV operation to store staff using a phone
Indoor TV

Store staff update the indoor TV from a phone: how to delegate the screen to the person at the counter

Whoever serves customers knows what they ask for and what is out of stock. The counter routine that turns slow hours into screen content — without promising permissions the product does not document.

Mário Sérgio and Josimar Machado in the JMV Café & Tech podcast studio, recording the episode about engaging the team and ending idle time in the store
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Staff with arms crossed: how indoor TV engages your team and ends idle time

Real-time updates, micro-training and targets on screen: the three fronts that turn the store's quiet hour into useful work — without banning phones.

Illustration of the store screen on one side, a download arrow, and a vertical phone on the other, standing for the same video published on social media
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Indoor TV with AI: download the finished video and post it on the store's social media

The download feature reverses the flow: the clip the AI built for the screen now goes down to the store's Instagram. One piece of work, two channels.

Mário Sérgio and Josimar Machado in the JMV Café & Tech podcast studio, recording the episode in which they discuss automating content delivery to indoor TV screens
Indoor TV

Automate your indoor TV content without editing video

A standardized email that becomes a video and a phone shortcut that uploads the clip over FTP: two paths that cut manual editing out and put an end to the stale screen.

Mário Sérgio and Josimar Machado in the JMV Café & Tech podcast studio, recording the episode in which the aisle camera scenario was described
Indoor TV

Indoor TV with a camera: how the screen changes what it shows in each aisle

Motion detection by aisle section, promos swapped in real time — plus the honest conversation about what is still a custom project and what data protection law demands of a camera in store.

Mário Sérgio and Josimar Machado in the JMV Café & Tech podcast studio, recording the episode on indoor TV business models by segment
Indoor TV

Digital menu boards for restaurants: how an indoor TV replaces the printed menu

The screen in your dining room shows the dish of the day with ingredients, possible allergens, price and the house combo — and switches by itself between lunch and dinner, with no print shop.

Artwork with a portrait indoor TV running a training playlist: welcome and culture, till procedure, stock replenishment, safety and PPE, weekly targets
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Indoor TV for onboarding and lower staff turnover

Losing someone you just hired is expensive. See how to use the screen to deliver onboarding, culture and procedures on repeat — in retail and on the factory floor.

A retail team with seasonal hires serving customers with an indoor TV in the background showing standardized store information
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Indoor TV to train retail staff and standardize information

With high turnover and holiday hires, the screen becomes the single source of truth: promotions and payment methods identical for everyone, always in sight.

A dark, turned-off indoor TV screen at a store counter, with a downward arrow indicating lost sales as customers walk by
Indoor TV

Indoor TV turned off: the real cost of a dark screen

Every minute the screen is dark is a customer who walked in with no sales prompt. See how to estimate the loss, the common causes and how to keep the screen on.

Indoor TV showing a news story as video, with captions and a QR code to the original article on the partner portal
Indoor TV

Indoor TV with Automatic News: always-fresh content, hands-free

Pick a portal and a category once; AI turns every new story into a narrated video, with captions and a QR code, and updates the TV on its own.

Comparison between building an indoor TV app from scratch, with code, and the ready-made cloud route from JMV Indoor, with no coding
Indoor TV

How to build an indoor TV app: DIY vs. the ready-made cloud route

What an indoor TV app needs, the real cost of building from scratch (code + hardware) and the no-code route — live in about 1 hour.

JMV Indoor app with the Roku, Fire TV, Android TV, Samsung, LG, Apple TV and Chromecast badges, showing indoor TV running on any Smart TV
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Indoor TV app for any Smart TV: Roku, Fire TV, Android TV, Samsung, LG, Apple TV and Chromecast

No expensive pro display needed: the JMV Indoor app runs on the main Smart TVs on the market. Use the Smart TV you already have — or a regular TV with Chromecast/TV Box — as indoor TV.

A day's timeline split into morning, afternoon and evening blocks, representing Indoor TV scheduled by time of day
Indoor TV

Schedule Indoor TV by time of day: the right content, at the right hour

Build the playlist and set the sequence and times from the cloud. One message in the morning, another in the afternoon — dayparting to serve each shift's audience. Profile is your strategy, not automatic recognition.

Artwork reading 'Live in minutes, no installer or construction', representing JMV Indoor's self-service activation with 30 days free
Indoor TV

Indoor TV live in minutes, with 30 days free: activation without an installer

The panel is unlocked right away, with no credit card, and there is a 30-day free trial. Self-service, 100% cloud on a Smart TV — no installer, no construction.

Vertical Indoor TV screen showing the brand's Instagram feed synced automatically, with posts and reels
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Indoor TV with Instagram: post once and appear on the store screen

Connect Instagram once and your posts, reels and stories show up on their own on the Vertical Indoor TV. No rework — the feed drives the screen, mixed with your programming.

A phone with the Indoor TV management dashboard open in the browser, a store screen in the background
Indoor TV

Manage your Indoor TV from your phone, from anywhere — 100% cloud

The programming lives in the cloud: change the store screen's playlist from your phone's browser, without going on-site or relying on IT. The TV app only displays; the online dashboard commands.

A Smart TV in a store showing Indoor TV with the native app, no box, dongle or mini-PC
Indoor TV

Indoor TV without a box: runs natively on your Smart TV

The standard definition says Indoor TV needs external hardware. With a native app, the Smart TV shows everything on its own — no box, mini-PC or pirate device.

Indoor TV management dashboard with the status of several chain locations in different places
Indoor TV

Indoor TV for chains and franchises: multi-location management and monitoring

One account for every location: an independent playlist per screen, a dashboard with each screen's status and an automatic alert when a location goes offline.

Sharp Indoor TV screen in a store next to a wired network point
Indoor TV

Why your Indoor TV freezes or pixelates (and how to prevent it)

The technical prerequisites so the screen never fails: wired internet, the right resolution per screen size and an approved device (Roku, Fire TV Stick).

Indoor TV in a store aisle showing a complementary offer to the customer
Indoor TV

Upselling with Indoor TV: sales triggers and a segment playbook

How to use the screen as a silent salesperson to raise the average ticket — with a segment playbook (pharmacy, dental, 24h gas station) and 3 sales triggers.

Indoor TV at a retail point of sale communicating with the customer
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End of the 6x1 shift in retail: how Indoor TV helps you serve with fewer hours

With Brazil's PEC 221/2019, each store will have fewer staffed service hours. See how the screen keeps communicating without adding headcount.

A regular Smart TV mounted vertically showing Indoor TV in a retail store, without a dedicated kiosk
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Vertical Indoor TV without a kiosk: use a regular Smart TV

Set up a vertical screen in your store with a regular Smart TV (Roku, Fire TV, Google TV) for a fraction of the cost of a dedicated kiosk.

Indoor TV showing content targeted by store zone in a pharmacy
Indoor TV

Indoor TV by store zone: what to show at checkout, the scale and the shelf

Each zone of the store has a different customer at a different moment. See how to segment programming by point, with distinct playlists from your phone.

Indoor TV showing content in a pharmacy
Indoor TV

Indoor TV with Artificial Intelligence: turn photos into videos

Upload photos in the app and AI generates automatic videos with captions for your TV — no editor, no agency.