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Visual communications is a powerful tool. Integrated with the right suite of application tools, visual communications gets your messages across with impact and ease at cost effective rates. SCALA's award winning innovative InfoChannel software solution brings visual communications to a new level with the seamless integration of computers, networks and displays to form the most powerful targeted mass medium; dynamic signage.Imagine having the power of your own in-house television station but with the flexibility to update each remote site with unique imagery and data and the scalability to broadcast to your targeted locations and audience.

Scala's InfoChannel solution provides the ability to create, publish, schedule and centrally control media rich content that can be delivered and dynamically localised at the point of playback to networked displays with 24/7 reliability. Embrace the technology of Dynamic Digital Signage!

 

Latest Highlights

  • Support for playback of streaming video (Windows Media streaming).
  • New Job Status view in NetManager for at-a-glance information on progress of all jobs.
  • Compression of health monitoring log files.
  • Significant internal improvements in the Broadcast Server.
  • Improved font-picker popup list.
  • Copy and paste element styles with Paste Format.
  • Dramatically improved back-to-back playback of Movie backgrounds.
  • Many other performance enhancements and bug-fixes.
  • Web streaming
  • Billing report
  • Various media format support
  • Large deployment capabilities
  • Global text crawl
  • TV input
  • Support for simplified Chinese & other Unicode languages
  • Supports queuing system
  • Database integration
  • Scripting capability

Creation: InfoChannel Designer 3
(optional InfoChannel Reporter 3)

Combine text, graphics, video, and sound. Integrate dynamic data. Schedule and publish to InfoChannel Network.
Choose from either creative or template-based interface.

Key Features

  • Create content for InfoChannel Networks
  • Publish to CD, HTML, or video
  • Improved scheduling
  • Logging for ad billing and error checking
  • Supports 4:3 and 16:9 content creation
  • Displays either portrait and landscape output
  • Real-time image processing and rendering
  • Streamlined, easy-to-use GUI
  • Storyboard-style printing
  • Multi-level undo
  • Spell check in nine languages
  • Template creation for use in InfoChannel Reporter

New Creative Elements

  • Better background designs and clips
  • New wipes including 3D transitions
  • Alpha-transparency and opacity
  • Text crawls fed from files or scripts
  • Drawing and texture tiling tools

Media Support

  • Graphics: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF, etc
  • Animation: SWF, FLC, FLI, AnimGIF
  • Sound: WAV, MP3, MIDI, CD Audio
  • Video: SW/HW MPEG 1&2, AVI, QT3
  • Fonts: OpenType, TrueType®, ScalaType
 

Management: InfoChannel Network Manager 3
(optional InfoChannel Broadcast Server 3)

Start small and scale easily to distribute content to remote players through a flexible architecture handling dialup, LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, Internet, Terrestrial IP Multicast, or Satellite.

Key Features

  • Easy-to-use distribution with intelligent file transfer
  • Built-in FTP server for easier administration
  • Players can "pull" content and scale easily
  • Jobs can trigger automatically at set schedules
  • Player management & content transmission via FTP or UNC
  • Authoring independent from broadcasting components
  • Multiple Designers can work on a project simultaneously
  • Network monitoring shows all InfoChannel Players' status
  • Content can be stored on independent sites
  • Uses Internet standard protocol to talk to Players
  • Remote Player administration of files, clock, reboot, etc.
  • Install updates remotely with current SSP subscription

Enterprise Edition Offers These Additional Features

  • Access centralized network administration anywhere via Web
  • Group Players by criteria (geography, demographics, etc.)
  • User accounts with passwords and access levels
  • View-only and view/modify modes support multiple users
  • Expandable to satellite/IP with InfoChannel Broadcast Server
 

Playback: InfoChannel Player 3

View content on plasmas, TVs, cable headends, billboards, video walls or kiosks. Then feed back data for ad revenue and system status.

Key Features

  • Stable and reliable playback 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  • Hundreds of smooth, full-screen effects and transitions
  • Versatile layering of standard graphics, sound and video files
  • Ability to update on-air without interruption
  • Optional add-ons for MPEG cards, VCRs and other devices
  • Interactive buttons, variables and branching for kiosks
  • Schedule and log events for ad billing and error tracking
  • Real-time data insertion for news, weather, etc.
  • Data-driven text crawls with controllable direction and speed

Additional Playback Modes

  • MPEG2 video playback without additional hardware required
  • Optional live video or input feeds with additional hardware
  • Native support for widescreen and portrait displays
  • Unlimited mixing of MP3 or CD audio (CD-ROM required)

Windows Script Host Support

  • Enables seamless interface between player and other systems/data with support for JavaScript and VBScript
  • Dramatic possibilities for timely, localized content

 
 
 

 


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