What is the NovaStar TB60?
The NovaStar TB60 is the largest Taurus-series multimedia player: one mains-powered box that stores and plays your content, takes a live HDMI source, and drives up to 2,300,000 pixels of LED screen across four Gigabit outputs. Nothing else goes between it and your cabinets.
You reach for this model when the screen has outgrown the rest of the family. Everything below it in the range stops at 1,300,000 pixels and two cable routes, which is where most large indoor walls and long outdoor displays run out of room.
The extra capacity does not change how you work with it. Content is published the same way, over your network, from a phone or off a USB drive, and the screen keeps playing on its own once you leave.
NovaStar TB60 key features
A true 1920×1080 wall fits on one player
A full high-definition screen is 2,073,600 pixels, which is more than any other player in this family can carry and comfortably inside what a TB60 carries. That single arithmetic fact is why most people end up here.
Below that point you would be splitting one screen across two players and keeping their schedules in step. Above it you are back to two boxes anyway.
Four cable routes leave the box
Four Gigabit outputs give you four separate runs into the wall, so a tall or wide screen can be fed from four directions instead of daisy-chaining everything through one long line. Fewer cabinets sit downstream of any single cable.
That shortens the chain your data travels and limits how much of the wall a damaged run can take with it.
Two of those ports can become insurance instead
All four outputs carry picture by default, and you can also set two as the working pair and two as spares. Cut a working cable then and the screen stays lit on the backup route.
The cost is capacity: you are choosing between a bigger screen and a screen that survives a damaged cable, so decide before the cabling is designed rather than after.
NovaStar TB60 specifications
Two rows carry the decision here — the pixel total tells you whether your screen fits on one player, and the output count tells you how you are allowed to cable it.
| Pixel capacity | 2,300,000 pixels; maximum 4096 wide and 4096 high |
|---|---|
| Long thin screens | Up to 23,040 pixels wide and 4096 high, inside the same total |
| Screen outputs | 4x Gigabit RJ45, all live by default, or two working and two spare |
| Live picture input | 1x HDMI 1.3, up to 1920×1200 at 60 Hz, HDCP 1.4 and 1.3, no interlaced sources |
| Loop-through output | 1x HDMI 1.3, up to 1920×1200 at 60 Hz |
| Sensor sockets | 2x, for a light sensor or a temperature and humidity sensor |
| Processor and memory | Quad-core ARM A55 at 1.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM, Android 11 |
| Internal storage | 32 GB, plus a USB 3.0 socket for more |
| Video it can play at once | 1x 4K, or 2x 1080p, or 5x 720p, or 6x 480p, or 6x 360p |
| Wireless and mobile | 2.4 GHz hotspot and network together; SIM slot fitted, 4G module bought separately |
| Power in | 100–240 V, 50/60 Hz, 0.6 A, with an on/off switch; 18 W maximum draw |
| Size and weight | 274.3 mm × 139.0 mm × 40.0 mm; 1,230.4 g |
| Operating range | −20°C to +60°C, 0% to 80% RH, non-condensing; IP20 |
| Approvals listed | UL, FCC, IC, CE, UKCA, CB, PSE, KC, MIC, RCM, SIRIM, CQC and others |
Figures come from NovaStar’s TB60 Multimedia Player Specifications V1.2.4, dated 31 July 2026.
A full 1080p screen needs this player, not the one below it
Work out your pixel count before you compare prices, because it decides the model on its own. Multiply the width of your screen in pixels by its height: a 1920×1080 wall comes to 2,073,600, and only the TB60 carries that in one box.
Some real screens, for scale. A 10-foot by 5.5-foot indoor wall at 2.5 mm pitch is close to 1219×670, or 817,000 pixels, and sits well inside a cheaper model. The same wall at 1.5 mm pitch is 2032×1117, or 2,270,000 pixels, and needs a TB60 with very little to spare.
Pitch, not floor area, is what usually pushes a project up to this player. Halve the pitch on the same physical wall and the pixel count multiplies by four.
One limit sits outside the total. Neither side of your screen may pass 4096 pixels, whatever the pixel count says, unless the display is a long thin one — those may run to 23,040 wide.
What four outputs change on the wall
Four outputs mean four independent runs from the player into your cabinets, and how you divide the screen between them is a decision you make in the layout software, not in hardware. The usual pattern is one output per vertical slice of a wide wall, or one per row on a tall one.
Shorter chains are the practical gain. A wall fed from two ports puts twice as many cabinets behind each cable as the same wall fed from four, so a damaged run or a failed cabinet takes less of the picture with it and you have less to walk when you are tracing a fault.
If you would rather have protection than reach, set two ports as working and two as spares. That halves what one player will drive, so it is a choice for screens comfortably inside the limit, not for ones scraping it.
Whichever way you go, plan it before the cable is pulled. Moving a screen from four working ports to two working and two spare means re-mapping the cabinets and re-running cable, not changing a setting.
When one TB60 is not enough
Pass 2,300,000 pixels, or 4096 on either side, and you are buying a second player and dividing the screen between them. There is no larger box in the Taurus range to step up to.
Two players can be kept in step so the halves of a divided screen change together. NovaStar does this by aligning clocks and sending both the same schedule, and it works between players of the same generation only: the TB60 keeps step with the T30, T50, T60, TB30, TB40 and TB50.
Two conditions come with it. Each page of a synchronized schedule holds one image or one video, at high definition or below, with matching properties on both players. And switching synchronization on halves how many videos each player can decode at once.
If your screen is large because it carries live production rather than stored playlists, a player is the wrong category. That is when to look at a controller with a video processor behind it instead.
TB60 against the rest of the Taurus boxes
All four boxes run the same software and publish the same way, so you are choosing on capacity, cable routes, live input and how the box is powered.
| Model | TB30 · TB40 · TB50 · TB60 |
|---|---|
| Pixel capacity | 1,300,000 · 1,300,000 · 1,300,000 · 2,300,000 |
| Screen outputs | 2 · 2 · 2 · 4 |
| Live HDMI input | no · yes · yes · yes |
| Power in | mains · DC 12 V · mains · mains |
| Covers 1920×1080 | no · no · no · yes |
| Price | $304 · $269 · $488 · $528 |
Order the TB60 if your pixel count passes 1,300,000, if you want four cable routes into the wall, or if you want two of them held back as spares.
Order the TB50 if the screen fits inside 1,300,000 and needs a live input — it is $40 less and otherwise the same box. Order the TB30 if nothing live will ever be plugged in.
TB60 datasheet, ViPlex Express and firmware
Your cabinet layout lives in the player, so keep the file you built when you commissioned the wall. On a four-port screen that map is worth far more than on a two-port one, and rebuilding it on site is an afternoon you did not plan for.
Firmware updates on any player newer than V2.3.0 run over the internet in a single step. Older units have to reach V2.3.0 from a local file before they will take V3.0.0 or later.
NovaStar TB60 FAQ
Will one TB60 run a 1920×1080 screen?
Yes. That screen is 2,073,600 pixels and the TB60 carries 2,300,000, so it fits with about 10% to spare. No smaller player in the family will do it.
Do I have to use all four outputs?
No. Use as many as the screen needs. Two of the four can also be held as spare routes, at the cost of halving what the player will drive.
Does the TB60 need a separate sending card?
No. It drives the receiving cards in your cabinets directly, so the four cables leaving it go straight into the wall.
Can two TB60s drive one very large screen?
Yes, by splitting the screen and keeping the two players in step. Each page of a synchronized schedule then holds one image or video at high definition or below, and each player decodes half as many streams as it would alone.
What is the widest screen it will drive?
4096 pixels on an ordinary screen, or 23,040 pixels on a long thin one, in both cases within the 2,300,000 total.
Can it play a live camera feed?
Yes. One HDMI 1.3 input takes up to 1920×1200 at 60 Hz and scales it to the screen, with a second HDMI socket looping the picture onward. Interlaced sources are not accepted.
Can I mount a TB60 outdoors?
No, not on its own. Its IP20 rating means it belongs inside the screen enclosure or a weatherproof cabinet, in air between −20°C and +60°C.
Is the TB60 UL listed?
Yes. NovaStar’s datasheet lists UL along with FCC, IC, CE, UKCA, CB, PSE, KC, MIC, RCM, SIRIM and CQC.
What warranty covers a TB60?
Three years of serial-tracked manufacturer coverage, because these players come through our authorized US NovaStar channel.
Can I get volume pricing or Net 30 terms?
Yes. Send the model and the quantity for volume pricing. Purchase orders and Net 30 terms may be available for approved schools, government buyers, venues and established integrators.
How do I order a TB60?
Pricing here is per player. Orders placed before 3 PM ET on in-stock items ship the same business day from Florida. Contact us to confirm current availability.
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