IMS Audio Visual is excited to announce Scala's InfoChannel 5 Release 3. This new release shows Scala’s continued commitment to being the world leader in digital signage software. InfoChannel 5 Release 3 adds new features and modules, performance improvements and fixes.
IMS Audio Visual has reached an agreement with Scala and has gained status as a value-added reseller. IMS, utilizing Scala's™ high-powered and world recognized software, will offer complete, turnkey solutions, software and maintenance. Leveraging 14 years of experience and a 42+ employee team, IMS has the design, engineering, project management, integration and support services to help customers as they develop their short and long range plans for Digital Signage roll outs.
In addition to Scala's Info Channel 5™ software, IMS Audio Visual will enhance the power of Scala by also offering CastNET™. CastNET is a web-browser based compliment solution that works in harmony with Scala to create an even-easier to use digital signage solution. CastNET empowers many users to create and update content easily through any web-browser, from any PC, without the need for any additional installed software. CastNET provides over 700 template combinations that allow multiple users to update content fast, without having any graphics experience. IMS Audio Visual is positioning Scala and CastNET as high-end digital signage solutions for many applications but directed toward corporate, higher education and gaming customers.
• A new high-performance video-playback engine that plays back videos much faster than before, including 60fps video, and HD video on suitable hardware.
• Supported playback of H.264 (MPEG-4) video files. H.264 offers high visual quality at a smaller file size than MPEG-2 or WMV files.
• The new Broadcast Server module allows you to distribute content and plans to players using a multicast or package delivery network.
• A PC's display can now be in spanning / stretched mode, which performs better and looks cleaner than using two independent displays.
• Support for text-entry field elements from the Buttons panel. This allows you to create interactive applications that take keyboard input.
• You can now specify a proxy server's URL, username, and password.
• Publishing individual files that are bigger than 4GB is now supported.
• Sub-playlists can be easily created by multi-selecting media items and clicking Create Sub-Playlist.
• Text elements using variables, and text crawls now support inline and adjacent style changes for font, color, italics, size, etc.
• You can now "synchronize players" instead of "generating plans"
These improvements are only some of the enhancements which continue to be released as InfoChannel 5 passes its 1 year anniversary.
If you are currently using Scala IC3, now is the time to consider upgrading to InfoChannel 5.
Scala is the world leader in software for digital signage. With two decades of experience in the industry, Scala is committed to digital signage. Scala offers innovative, cutting-edge technology and Scala partners help customers integrate digital signage software, hardware, and technology resulting in the best possible digital signage network.
More information is available at www.scala.com.